# Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures

> Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 61 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milwaukee, United States
- Total investments: 61
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/northwestern-mutual
- Website: https://innovation.northwesternmutual.com

Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures is an investment firm that provides life insurance services. Northwestern Mutual has a 160-year-old track record of industry-leading financial strength, client-centricity and entrepreneurial culture, which has not only enabled but driven us to always innovate for our clients. Plus, we know what it’s like to be astart-up because we have successful entrepreneurs on our team. In 2015, we combined forces with LearnVest through an acquisition that began as a strategic investing partnership.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$3.9M |
| Series A | $8M–$20M |
| Series B | $13M–$44M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 16 | 26% |
| FinTech | 15 | 25% |
| Insurance | 7 | 11% |
| Software | 5 | 8% |
| Analytics | 5 | 8% |

67 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 20% |
| Series B | 11 | 18% |
| Series A | 10 | 16% |
| Series C | 7 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 11% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 32 | 52% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Levitate | Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources. It aims to help make the world a more entrepreneurial and creative place by building software that helps small businesses and small entrepreneurial teams within large companies grow. | $16M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Levitate | Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources. It aims to help make the world a more entrepreneurial and creative place by building software that helps small businesses and small entrepreneurial teams within large companies grow. | $16M | Series E | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Letter AI | Letter AI empowers revenue teams to close more deals quickly and effectively with our all-in-one platform powered by generative AI. We offer AI-driven training and coaching, seamless content management and creation, real-time support from an AI co-pilot, and engaging deal rooms for buyers. | $40M | Series B | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| ORO Impact | ORO IMPACT operates in financial services and focuses on impact-oriented finance and strategy. Publicly available materials indicate services that center on advisory for funding models, program design, and impact measurement tied to social or environmental outcomes. The company engages with mission-driven organizations, investors, and corporateteams to align capital with defined impact goals and reporting needs. Typical deliverables include frameworks for outcomes tracking, stakeholder communications, and partnership development to support initiatives from concept through execution. Research briefs and educational content also feature as tools that help clients make data-informed decisions. Because detailed service catalogs vary by engagement, prospective clients should confirm scope, sector focus, and example case work directly. | $3M | Seed | Jan 28, 2026 |  |
| Atomic Insights | Atomic Insights is a financial technology company that simplifies and ensures compliance for RIAs and family offices. The platform automates client payment workflows from beginning to finish, recording payment requests, organizing approvals, and executing payments through real-time custodian and bank APIs, all while providing a complete audit trailand cashflow reporting in a single, centralized workspace. Atomic Insights minimizes human data entry, decreases operational risk, and enables wealth management businesses to provide a more personalized "family CFO" experience at scale by integrating bidirectionally with top CRM and portfolio management platforms. | $10M | Seed | Jan 14, 2026 |  |
| Modern Life | Modern Life is an AI-powered life insurance brokerage helping everyone protect what matters most. Our platform empowers today’s advisors with advanced technology to help them serve their clients faster, more easily, and more confidently. We have raised $35M led by Thrive Capital, New York Life, and Northwestern Mutual. | $20M | Series A | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Letter AI | Letter AI empowers revenue teams to close more deals quickly and effectively with our all-in-one platform powered by generative AI. We offer AI-driven training and coaching, seamless content management and creation, real-time support from an AI co-pilot, and engaging deal rooms for buyers. | $10.6M | Series A | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Meanwhile | Meanwhile is a licensed and regulated life insurance business. | $82M | Series B | Oct 07, 2025 |  |
| zerohash | Zero Hash offers a post-trade settlement utility to bridge a fragmented market of diverse execution platforms. It supports a wide range of fiat and digital assets that can be combined into any product pair. Zero Hash combines this with an on-chain settlement for digital assets, which provides an independent ability to verify ownership via theblockchain.Zero Hash was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $104M | Series D | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| Alkymi | Alkymi is the first end-to-end solution for turning your private markets data into actionable insights. With AI-powered document workflows, Alkymi is transforming how the private markets industry accesses their data—empowering leading firms like SimCorp, Northwestern Mutual, and Strategic Investment Group to scale their investments, service moreclients, and respond faster to changing markets. |  |  | Aug 07, 2025 |  |

10 of 61 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures invest in?

Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Insurance startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 61 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures's check size?

Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$3.9M at Seed, $8M–$20M at Series A and $13M–$44M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures participates in.

### When did Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 61 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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