QBE Ventures
VC Fund
Sydney, Australia
QBE Ventures is a VC fund in Sydney focused on Insurance and InsurTech. QBE Ventures is the venture capital arm of QBE Insurance Group, a top 20 global insurance and reinsurance company operating in 37 countries. QBE Ventures invests globally in companies that provide access to differentiated technology which has the potential to enhance QBE's business model, drive efficiencies and develop new avenues of growth.
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 48%
Last updated:
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Industries QBE Ventures invests in
Stages QBE Ventures invests in
Countries QBE Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $2.6M–$9M
- Series B
- $16M–$23M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Insurance 10 (43%)
- InsurTech 9 (39%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (35%)
- Software 6 (26%)
- Machine Learning 5 (22%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (22%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (22%)
- Series B 3 (13%)
- Seed 2 (9%)
- Series C 2 (9%)
Country
- United States 14 (61%)
- Australia 2 (9%)
- United Kingdom 2 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Bob James
Group Head of Transformation
|
Group Head of Transformation | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Daniel Wypler
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ted Stuckey
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Marcus Marchant
Group Chief Digital & Innovation Officer
|
Group Chief Digital & Innovation Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reserv develops an AI-powered insurance claims platform that combines third-party administration services with data-driven software to manage and optimize property and casualty claims. The company provides end-to-end claims handling, including intake, evaluation, processing, and settlement, supported by a digital infrastructure designed to replacelegacy claims systems. Its platform leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to ingest and analyze structured and unstructured data from insurers, customers, and third-party sources, enabling automated workflows, coverage decisioning, and real-time reporting. These capabilities allow claims professionals to access consolidated claim data, generate insights, and make faster, more informed decisions throughout the claims lifecycle.Reserv operates as a digitally native third-party administrator, providing both technology and operational services, including claims adjuster support and compliance handling across multiple insurance lines. Its system digitizes processes from first notice of loss through settlement, improving efficiency, reducing cycle times, and enhancing transparency for insurers and policyholders. The platform includes analytics and data warehouse capabilities that deliver detailed insights into claims performance and portfolio risk, helping insurers refine underwriting strategies and pricing decisions. It also automates reporting and integrates with existing insurance systems, enabling scalable deployment across different organizations and workflows. | $16M / Series B / Sep 16, 2025 | ||
| Snorkel AI is a technology startup that empowers data scientists and developers to turn data into accurate and adaptable AI applications fast with Snorkel Flow, a first-of-its-kind data-centric development platform, powered by programmatic labeling. Snorkel Flow reduces the time, cost, and friction of labeling training data so data science anddevelopment teams can more easily build and scale AI models to deploy more meaningful applications. Incorporating human judgment into the AI process through subject-matter experts is made more efficient and scalable leading to more ethical, responsible outcomes.Two out of the top three US banks, several government agencies and Fortune 500 companies use Snorkel Flow. Snorkel’s core research was developed at Stanford AI lab and is deployed at Google, Intel, Apple, IBM, DARPA, and other trailblazing organizations. | $100M / Series D / May 29, 2025 | ||
| Digital Commercial Insurance | Seed / Oct 23, 2024 | ||
| Lazarus AI is an AI engine company helping enterprises deploy artificial intelligence safely, reliably, and at scale. Its flagship Applied Intelligence Engine (AIE) enables organizations to move beyond experimentation and operationalize AI in ways that drive measurable business value and lasting competitive advantage. Model-agnostic, modular, andconfigurable, Lazarus AI’s technologies help insurers, healthcare organizations, government agencies, financial institutions, and other complex enterprises put AI into production with greater control, reliability, and impact. Headquartered in Boston, Lazarus AI serves customers across North America, APAC, and Europe through a team of experienced engineers, domain experts, and leading AI researchers. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 20, 2024 | ||
| Snorkel AI is a technology startup that empowers data scientists and developers to turn data into accurate and adaptable AI applications fast with Snorkel Flow, a first-of-its-kind data-centric development platform, powered by programmatic labeling. Snorkel Flow reduces the time, cost, and friction of labeling training data so data science anddevelopment teams can more easily build and scale AI models to deploy more meaningful applications. Incorporating human judgment into the AI process through subject-matter experts is made more efficient and scalable leading to more ethical, responsible outcomes.Two out of the top three US banks, several government agencies and Fortune 500 companies use Snorkel Flow. Snorkel’s core research was developed at Stanford AI lab and is deployed at Google, Intel, Apple, IBM, DARPA, and other trailblazing organizations. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 23, 2024 | ||
| CLARA Analytics improves claims outcomes in commercial insurance with easy-to-use AI-based products. The company’s product suite applies image recognition, natural language processing, and other AI-based techniques to unlock insights from medical notes, bills and other documents surrounding a claim. CLARA’s predictive insight gives adjusters “AIsuperpowers” that help them reduce claim costs and optimize outcomes for the carrier, customer and claimant. CLARA’s customers include companies from the top 25 global insurance carriers to large third-party administrators and self-insured organizations. | $24M / Series C / Sep 07, 2023 | ||
| Mitti Insurance is a data-driven insurance company. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| Geosite is a business operations platform that links the power of spatial data and analytics to business operations, incident management, and planning workflows. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 28, 2022 | ||
| Catalyst Technologies is helping to evolve traditional crisis management practices by accelerating awareness, amplifying collaboration and automating responses to help organisations across the globe more effectively overcome business critical events. Our products provide early warning of possible threats such a as health pandemics, cyber attacks,natural catastrophes and security related incidents and the insights and tools to better minimise the impacts and maximise the opportunities. | $2.6M / Series A / Oct 11, 2022 | ||
| LeaseLock is an insurance technology company replacing security deposits with insurance. Its flagship lease insurance product leverages artificial intelligence to eliminate security deposits from enterprise operating infrastructure—powering a faster, simpler, more affordable rental transaction. LeaseLock seamlessly deploys within the nativeonline leasing checkout, resulting in significant conversion lift—while instantly generating industry-leading coverage for the property on every lease.LeaseLock has insured over $1 billion in leases backed by insurance rated A (Excellent) by A.M. Best. Its global investors include SoftBank Ventures Asia, Wildcat Ventures, Westerly Winds, Vertex Ventures US, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, American Family Ventures, Moderne Ventures, and Mucker Capital. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 19, 2022 | ||
| See all 23 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does QBE Ventures invest in?
QBE Ventures invests primarily in Insurance, InsurTech and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 23 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 QBE Ventures's check size?
QBE Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$9M at Series A and $16M–$23M 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 QBE Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at QBE Ventures?
The team at QBE Ventures includes Bob James (Group Head of Transformation), Daniel Wypler (Managing Partner) and Ted Stuckey (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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