# MW Whiteaker

> MW Whiteaker is a seed investor at IBM Ventures (San Francisco) backing FinTech and Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [IBM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibm-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Sep 2019
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-whiteaker-56331/
- Website: https://ibm.com

MW Whiteaker is a seed investor at IBM Ventures in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Software. Tom has spend more than 20 years as a VC investor. Tom is a financial services veteran with a combination of operational and venture investing experience across the entire industry spectrum. After business school at Thunderbird, he co-founded the international division for Accent Service, one of the largest American collection agencies, and builtnew business units in Mexico City, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.The work led him to the world of global payments and a career transition to Visa, where he spent eight years in Visa’s venture capital program, focusing on investments in ecommerce, security, and authentication. At Visa, Tom led investments in Zone Labs (acquired by Checkpoint), NextPage (acquired by Fast Search and Transfer), Vericept (acquired by Trustwave) and Inside Secure (IPO).Tom left Visa as the interim head of ventures and started a new chapter in his career in the insurance industry when he joined The Hartford in 2008. At The Hartford, Tom reestablished Hartford Ventures as the leading corporate venture program in the insurance industry while also managing a diverse portfolio of investments through the financial crisis. He served as a board observer for Insurance.com (acquired) and led new early stage investments in Driverside (acquired) and Coulomb Technologies.From Hartford Ventures, Tom joined BBVA Ventures as a Managing Director where he helped launch BBVA's corporate venture program as an early entrant into the rapidly rising Fintech sector. Tom was instrumental in spinning out BBVA Ventures into Propel Venture Partners as a co-founder of Propel's $250M venture fund. While at Propel Tom led early stage investments into Hippo Insurance, Kasisto, Taulia, Covered Insurance and Hixme. A dedicated family man, Tom likes to fly-fish and golf when he’s not looking for and working with entrepreneurs.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 38% |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 38% |
| InsurTech | 2 | 25% |
| Health Care | 2 | 25% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Series B | 2 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Series D | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kasisto | Kasisto enables financial institutions to service, engage, and acquire customers via human-like, intelligent conversations anytime, anywhere.Its digital experience platform, KAI, powers omnichannel virtual assistants and chatbots who are fluent in banking across mobile apps, websites, messaging platforms, and voice-enabled devices.The companywas founded in 2013 by Dror Oren, Zor Gorelov, Sasha Caskey, and Ruth Brown and headquartered in New York, New York. | $15M | Series B | Sep 03, 2019 |  |
| Kasisto | Kasisto enables financial institutions to service, engage, and acquire customers via human-like, intelligent conversations anytime, anywhere.Its digital experience platform, KAI, powers omnichannel virtual assistants and chatbots who are fluent in banking across mobile apps, websites, messaging platforms, and voice-enabled devices.The companywas founded in 2013 by Dror Oren, Zor Gorelov, Sasha Caskey, and Ruth Brown and headquartered in New York, New York. | $17M | Series B | Dec 13, 2017 |  |
| Outpatient App | The Outpatient App is a digital health, medical task, and care coordination tool for families, medical professionals, health systems, and military medical services. It enables scheduling, messaging, task assignments, automatic notifications, and updates - all inside a simple, easy interface. It’s 100% private, secure, HIPAA compliant, andaccessible from anywhere globally via any Mobile Device and/or a Desktop Web Application. Today, the Outpatient App is used by professional and family caregivers across all 50 US States. Families were the initial target audience, and customers today include large Health Systems (ie SSM Health) and Military Medical Services (ie US Air Force, Air Force Medical Services, Air Force Research Laboratory). |  | Seed | Sep 01, 2017 |  |
| Kasisto | Kasisto enables financial institutions to service, engage, and acquire customers via human-like, intelligent conversations anytime, anywhere.Its digital experience platform, KAI, powers omnichannel virtual assistants and chatbots who are fluent in banking across mobile apps, websites, messaging platforms, and voice-enabled devices.The companywas founded in 2013 by Dror Oren, Zor Gorelov, Sasha Caskey, and Ruth Brown and headquartered in New York, New York. | $9.2M | Series A | Jan 12, 2017 |  |
| Hixme | Hixme is an insurtech company and solution for brokers that helps mid-market companies migrate from their group health insurance plans to composite-rated individual health insurance plans while saving 10-20% on health insurance. Hixme is backed by Kleiner Perkins, Propel Ventures, Rosemark Capital, and Transamerica Ventures. | $14.1M | Series B | Oct 25, 2016 |  |
| Hippo Insurance | Hippo Insurance Services offers a different kind of home insurance, built from the ground up to provide a new standard of care and protection for homeowners. Our goal is to make homes safer and better protected so customers spend less time worrying about the burdens of homeownership and more time enjoying their homes and the life within. Harnessingreal-time data, smart home technology, and a growing suite of home services, we are creating the first integrated home protection platform. Hippo is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in Austin and Dallas, Texas, and insurance products available to more than 80 percent of U.S. homeowners in 37 states. Hippo Insurance Services is a licensed property casualty insurance agent with products underwritten by various insurance companies. |  | Seed | May 15, 2016 |  |
| Taulia | Taulia is a FinTech startup that provides working capital management and electronic invoicing services for supply chain companies. Its platform helps businesses to turn every invoice into a revenue opportunity using their cash or third-party cash to fund early payments, lower the barriers for e-invoicing participation by accepting all forms ofelectronic invoices without having to charge suppliers, and empower suppliers to be self-sufficient by giving them access to free self-service and management tool. | $13M | Series D | Sep 25, 2014 |  |
| Kasisto | Kasisto enables financial institutions to service, engage, and acquire customers via human-like, intelligent conversations anytime, anywhere.Its digital experience platform, KAI, powers omnichannel virtual assistants and chatbots who are fluent in banking across mobile apps, websites, messaging platforms, and voice-enabled devices.The companywas founded in 2013 by Dror Oren, Zor Gorelov, Sasha Caskey, and Ruth Brown and headquartered in New York, New York. | $2.3M | Seed | Aug 20, 2014 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Partnership Fund for New York City](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-york-city-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Commerce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commerce-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Two Sigma Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/two-sigma-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mastercard](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mastercard) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [New York Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-york-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Oak HC/FT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oak-hc-ft-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About IBM Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

IBM Ventures is dedicated to driving strategic insights and engagements in growth areas for IBM and its clients. The group was founded in 2001 and is based in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at IBM Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Angie Grimm | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angie-grimm |
| Emily Fontaine | Global Head of Venture Capital and Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-fontaine-0766 |
| Ben Daniels | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-daniels-bae5 |
| MW Whiteaker | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-whiteaker |
| Tom Whiteaker | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-whiteaker |

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## FAQ

### What does MW Whiteaker invest in?

MW Whiteaker invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did MW Whiteaker last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for MW Whiteaker closed in Sep 2019. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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