# Swiss Re

> Swiss Re is a VC fund in Zürich backing Health Care and Insurance. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/swiss-re
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/swissre
- Website: http://www.swissre.com

Swiss Re is a VC fund in Zürich focused on Health Care and Insurance. The Swiss Re Group is a wholesale provider of reinsurance, insurance, and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer. Dealing direct and working through brokers, its global client base consists of insurance companies, mid-to-large-sized corporations, and public sector clients. From standard products to tailor-made coverage across all lines ofbusiness, Swiss Re deploys its capital strength, expertise, and innovation power to enable the risk-taking upon which enterprise and progress in society depend. Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1863, Swiss Re serves clients through a network of around 70 offices globally and is rated "AA-" by Standard & Poor's, "Aa3" by Moody's, and "A+" by A.M. Best. Registered shares in the Swiss Re Group holding company, Swiss Re Ltd, are listed in accordance with the International Reporting Standard on the SIX Swiss Exchange and trade under the symbol SREN.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $6.1M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 7 | 35% |
| Insurance | 5 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 20% |
| FinTech | 2 | 10% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 5 | 25% |
| Seed | 2 | 10% |
| Series A | 2 | 10% |
| Series B | 2 | 10% |
| Grant | 1 | 5% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 30% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 10% |
| China | 1 | 5% |
| India | 1 | 5% |
| Kenya | 1 | 5% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bruce Adams | Senior Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-adams |
| Karen Tan | Chief Risk Officer Reinsurance Asia | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karen-tan |
| Nina Zhou | Head of PI&A North Asia | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nina-zhou |
| Pavan Pendyala | Head Of Integration | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pavan-pendyala |
| Roger Gonourie | Head of Global Sourcing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roger-gonourie |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Climeworks | Climeworks captures CO2 from air via commercial carbon dioxide removal technology. Its direct air capture plants capture CO2 with a filter, using mainly low-grade heat as an energy source. The pure CO2 gas is then sold to customers in key markets, including commercial agriculture, food and beverage industries, the energy sector and the automotiveindustry. Customers utilize this atmospheric CO2 in carbonated drinks or to produce carbon-neutral hydrocarbon fuels and materials. Additionally, the company enables customers to realize their climate goals by reversing their emissions and safely storing the captured CO2. | $699.4M | Private Equity | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Climeworks | Climeworks captures CO2 from air via commercial carbon dioxide removal technology. Its direct air capture plants capture CO2 with a filter, using mainly low-grade heat as an energy source. The pure CO2 gas is then sold to customers in key markets, including commercial agriculture, food and beverage industries, the energy sector and the automotiveindustry. Customers utilize this atmospheric CO2 in carbonated drinks or to produce carbon-neutral hydrocarbon fuels and materials. Additionally, the company enables customers to realize their climate goals by reversing their emissions and safely storing the captured CO2. | $645.4M | Series E | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Klimber | Klimber makes personal insurance easy to understand, buy, and use. Utilizing data-driven insights, design, and proprietary technology we are able to offer competitive prices, convenience, and control over the insurance experience that emerging “digital” consumers expect. In collaboration with our strategic partners and investors, PrudentialFinancial and Grupo Clarín, our team of insurance experts and technologists seek to deliver world-class insurance products and services via the region’s first 100% digital platform. |  | Seed | Feb 10, 2022 |  |
| Paytm Insurance | Paytm Insurance is a one-stop destination for insurance services. | $122.6M | Corporate Round | Oct 27, 2021 |  |
| Getsafe | Getsafe is a digital insurance company creating a better insurance experience for everyone that is easy, flexible, and enjoyable. With its strong technological backbone, the company offers liability, contents and car insurance in Germany and contents insurance in the UK. Getsafe replaces complexity and manual paperwork with smart bots andautomation, allowing customers to file claims or change their coverage in real-time with just a few clicks. | $63M | Series B | Oct 06, 2021 |  |
| Getsafe | Getsafe is a digital insurance company creating a better insurance experience for everyone that is easy, flexible, and enjoyable. With its strong technological backbone, the company offers liability, contents and car insurance in Germany and contents insurance in the UK. Getsafe replaces complexity and manual paperwork with smart bots andautomation, allowing customers to file claims or change their coverage in real-time with just a few clicks. | $30M | Series B | Dec 08, 2020 |  |
| Waterdrop | Waterdrop is an insurance platform that plans to solve the problem of high medical fees faced by most patients, especially those with a critical illness. Shuidihuzhu offers three products: mutual insurance, crowdfunding and commercial insurance. All their services are conducted through the platform’s official WeChat account, where users could postcrowdfunding campaigns, buy insurances, or claim indemnities according to their policies. | $230M | Series D | Aug 20, 2020 |  |
| Vouch Insurance | Vouch Insurance bring fairer, more affordable and personalized insurance to communities. They are an insurance platform for communities. The insurance experience hasn't changed in decades and they want to change that starting with car insurance. Their partner insurers to make buying car insurance simpler, faster, and more rewarding forcommunities of safe drivers. | $20K | Seed | Jul 24, 2017 |  |
| Biovotion | Biovotion has developed an accurate, wearable sensing technology, that allows for medical-quality vital sign monitoring (VSM) in daily life.The platform combines medical-quality VSM with design, wearability, convenience, and prices of the consumer market.The system (multi-sensor platform plus sophisticated algorithms) is intergrated intocloud infrastructures to provide users with data on par with standard hospital systems and can be stepwise expanded with additional physiological parameters. Current parameters include heart rate, blood oxygenation, blood perfusion, temperature and movement/activity. The first VSM generation is also expected to include heart rate variability, respiratory rate, energy expenditure, and sleep and stress monitoring.The management team is internationally recognised for its expertise in wearable monitoring.The company holds a broad IP portfolio. | $15.2M | Series A | Jul 11, 2017 |  |
| The Glue | The Glue is a contemporary, new solution which enables financial institutions to quickly develop innovative financial services for today’s consumers. These services are delivered by creating a customer centric environment, overlaying the core legacy systems. The Glue is a unique enabling yet non-disruptive solution which helps to protect andprolong the lifespan of your existing infrastructure investments. | $5.5M |  | Mar 24, 2017 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Baillie Gifford](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baillie-gifford) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BigPoint Holding](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bigpoint-holding) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Carbon Removal Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carbon-removal-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CommerzVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commerzventures-gmbh) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GIC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gic) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Swiss Re invest in?

Swiss Re invests primarily in Health Care, Insurance and Financial Services startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed 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.

### What is Swiss Re's check size?

Swiss Re typically joins rounds of $6.1M–$15M 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 Swiss Re participates in.

### How do I contact Swiss Re?

Public channels for Swiss Re include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Swiss Re?

The team at Swiss Re includes Bruce Adams (Senior Vice President), Karen Tan (Chief Risk Officer Reinsurance Asia) and Nina Zhou (Head of PI&A North Asia), among 18 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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