# QBE Ventures

> QBE Ventures is a VC fund backing Insurance and Artificial Intelligence. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qbe/
- Website: https://www.qbe.com/ventures

QBE Ventures is a VC fund in Sydney focused on Insurance and Artificial Intelligence. 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.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Insurance | 9 | 45% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 45% |
| InsurTech | 7 | 35% |
| Software | 6 | 30% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 25% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 25% |
| Series B | 3 | 15% |
| Seed | 2 | 10% |
| Series C | 2 | 10% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 70% |
| Australia | 2 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bob James | Group Head of Transformation | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-james |
| Daniel Wypler | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-wypler |
| Ted Stuckey | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ted-stuckey |
| Marcus Marchant | Group Chief Digital & Innovation Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcus-marchant |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reserv | 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 | 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 |  |
| Aurora Insurance | Digital Commercial Insurance |  | Seed | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| Lazarus | Lazarus uses patient health data and AI to detect cancer early. The company has clinical decision support systems for skin and cervical cancer, which help improve the diagnostic accuracy of physicians. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 20, 2024 |  |
| Snorkel AI | 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 | 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 | Mitti Insurance is a data-driven insurance company. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Geosite | 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 |  |
| iluminr | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does QBE Ventures invest in?

QBE Ventures invests primarily in Insurance, Artificial Intelligence and InsurTech startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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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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