# Siddhartha Sankaran

> Siddhartha Sankaran is a seed investor at FWD Group (New York) backing InsurTech and Insurance. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FWD Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fwd-group)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Feb 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidsankaran

Siddhartha Sankaran is a seed investor at FWD Group in New York focused on InsurTech and Insurance. Sid Sankaran is the Group CFO of FWD Group. He previously worked at SiriusPoint as a Chairman and CEO. Sid Sankaran attended the University of Waterloo.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| InsurTech | 1 | 100% |
| Insurance | 1 | 100% |
| Developer APIs | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Briza | Briza.io is the commercial insurance-as-a-service API. Briza is creating the infrastructure that underwriting systems will use to talk to insurance agencies, consumer apps, and anybody who wants to instantly sell insurance with just a few lines of code. | $2.3M | Seed | Feb 19, 2020 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Four Cities Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fourcities-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Leaders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leadersfund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About FWD Group

VC Fund



2 contacts available at FWD Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Siddhartha Sankaran | Group CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sid-sankaran |
| Sid Sankaran | Group CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/siddhartha-sankaran |

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## FAQ

### What does Siddhartha Sankaran invest in?

Siddhartha Sankaran invests primarily in InsurTech, Insurance and Developer APIs startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Siddhartha Sankaran last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Siddhartha Sankaran closed in Feb 2020. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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