# Sam Hodges

> Sam Hodges is a seed investor at Endurance Companies backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Endurance Companies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endurance-companies)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samhodges
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/hodgessam
- Website: https://x.com/hodgessam
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samhhodges

Sam Hodges is a seed investor at Endurance Companies in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Sam Hodges is the Co-founder and CEO of Vouch. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$10M |
| Series A | $4M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 12 | 52% |
| FinTech | 11 | 48% |
| Insurance | 8 | 35% |
| Software | 5 | 22% |
| InsurTech | 4 | 17% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 65% |
| Series A | 3 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 9% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 87% |
| Israel | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cara | Cara is a domain-specific AI platform purpose-built for insurance—a modular system that enables agencies, brokerages, and MGAs to automate servicing, accelerate sales, and scale operations with a 24/7 digital workforce. | $8M | Seed | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Stream | Stream's revolutionizes the $50B workers' compensation industry through AI-powered solutions that reduce time, cost, and error in medical document management. Our products, built by former claims adjusters and insurance professionals, empower healthcare professionals, insurers, and attorneys to streamline manual document workflows. | $5.3M | Seed | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| Meanwhile | Meanwhile is a licensed and regulated life insurance business. | $19M | Seed | Jun 06, 2023 |  |
| Nirvana Insurance | Nirvana Insurance is an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer that utilizes telematics data to enhance safety and reduce fleet costs.The company leverages artificial intelligence and telematics data to offer personalized insurance solutions that reward safe driving practices. Nirvana provides tailored policies for both fleet and non-fleetoperators, including options such as auto liability, auto physical damage, general liability, and motor truck cargo coverage. By analyzing telematics data, Nirvana offers upfront discounts of up to 20% for safe driving behaviors. Their Safety Intelligence Platform delivers AI-powered insights to help fleets enhance safety and efficiency. Utilizing real-time data, Nirvana streamlines the claims process, enabling faster resolutions and reducing downtime for drivers. | $22M | Series A | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| Ascend | Ascend is a modern, all-in-one payments solution purpose-built for insurance. We automate insurance payments end-to-end — from online customer payments including premium financing to the distribution of commissions and carrier payables. We help digital distributors sell more insurance by simplifying operations, reducing payment friction anddelivering the modern checkout experience customers expect. | $5.5M | Seed | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Weav | Weav is a universal API for commerce platforms that allows them to access their customers' standardized transaction data in real-time. By leveraging data across platforms and industries, Weav is building the most sophisticated models to understand businesses. It was founded in 2020 and is based in New York, New York. | $4.3M | Seed | Apr 26, 2021 |  |
| UNIPaaS Payments Technologies | UNIPaaS is a payment solution that enables digital platforms and marketplaces to own, manage, and monetize from financial services. Digital marketplaces and B2B platforms can now own their payment experience and control their funds' flow. They are transforming how businesses integrate and handle payments, reducing financial operations costs,and accelerating the implementation of new growth engines powered by payments and financial services. By monetizing these activities and providing these new services to customers in the right context, digital platforms can effectively increase stickiness, and lifetime value, and generate additional revenues.UNIPaaS was founded in 2020 and is based in Israel. | $10M | Seed | Feb 09, 2021 |  |
| Routable | Routable is a B2B payments-based platform that allows its users to send and receive business-to-business payments. Its platform uses API allows its users to build payments infrastructure in minutes. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $12M | Series A | Aug 09, 2020 |  |
| Hemlane | Hemlane is a nationwide property management platform. They empower rental owners to manage their properties remotely with a transparent solution that offers online tools and connections to maintenance coordinators and local support. For agents and managers, they can manage existing clients and meet new clients directly on Hemlane.Top features:(1) Rental Marketing: Advertises rentals to over 30 rental listing websites. (2) Show Scheduling: Responds to prospective tenants’ inquiries, schedules showings, and sends reminders to prospective tenants. (3) Applicant Screening: Recommends whether to accept or deny applicants based on objective criteria and comprehensive applications and screening. (4) Lease Tracking: Reminders on lease renewals, saves and protects important property and tenant-specific documents. Partners to provide lease contracts and on call legal advice. (5) Online Rent Collection: Reminds tenants on rent collection, offers ACH and credit/debit payments, and sends automatic requests for the late fees. (6) Maintenance: Alerts you with maintenance requests (allows photo upload) and adds your vendors to the conversation (no sign in required) LOCAL FEATURES: (1) Provides access to recommended licensed agent and managers in your area for local expertise (2) Offers 24/7 coordination of maintenance and repair requests. | $2.5M | Seed | Dec 13, 2019 |  |
| Qwil | Qwil provides individual contractors, freelancers, and small businesses with financial tools and solutions. It offers an application that enables its users to manage and spend their earnings through their Qwil debit card. Qwil also enables its users to earn and spend money before they are paid for their services.The company was founded in 2015and is based in San Francisco, California. | $24.4M | Series B | Dec 11, 2019 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Compound](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/metamorphic-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Al Hamra Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/al-hamra-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Endurance Companies

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Endurance is a holding company that manages diversified entrepreneurial projects, building nine successful companies amongst the partners since 2009. The company actively manages four businesses founded by the Partners: Funding Circle US, Vocate, Collective Medical Technologies, and Endurance Properties.

5 contacts available at Endurance Companies.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Tonelli | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-tonelli |
| Braden Pan | Principal, Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/braden-pan |
| Chris Klomp | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-klomp |
| Emil Veltchev | Venture Builder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emil-veltchev |
| Erika Shumate | Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erika-shumate |

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## FAQ

### What does Sam Hodges invest in?

Sam Hodges invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Insurance startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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 Sam Hodges's check size?

Sam Hodges typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$10M at Seed and $4M–$22M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sam Hodges participates in.

### When did Sam Hodges last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sam Hodges closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 23 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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