USAA
VC Fund
San Antonio, United States
USAA is a VC fund in San Antonio focused on Software and Financial Services. USAA provides banking, insurance, and investment services to the military community. The mission of the association is to facilitate the financial security of its members, associates, and their families through provision of a range of highly competitive financial products and services in so doing, USAA seeks to be the provider of choice for themilitary community.
- Total investments:
- 58
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 34%
- Last fund:
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Industries USAA invests in
Stages USAA invests in
Countries USAA invests in
Contacts
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Michael Smith
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Gerald Paulino
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (19%)
- Financial Services 9 (16%)
- FinTech 7 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (12%)
- Analytics 5 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 13 (22%)
- Series B 13 (22%)
- Funding Round 8 (14%)
- Series C 5 (9%)
- Grant 4 (7%)
Country
- United States 37 (64%)
- Canada 2 (3%)
- Israel 1 (2%)
Team
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Michael Smith
Assistant Vice President, Corporate Development
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Assistant Vice President, Corporate Development | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Nathan McKinley
VP, Head of Corporate Development & Interim Head of Enterprise Strategy
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VP, Head of Corporate Development & Interim Head of Enterprise Strategy | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
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Amala Duggirala
EVP & Enterprise Chief Information Officer
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EVP & Enterprise Chief Information Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Brad Wells
Head of Insurance Sales & Service- Contact Center Operations
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Head of Insurance Sales & Service- Contact Center Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Gerald Paulino
Director -Compliance & Operational Risk Testing
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Director -Compliance & Operational Risk Testing | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Investments
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Tidal Cyber is a cybersecurity company that provides a threat-led defense platform. The platform maps adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures to measure the effectiveness of a security stack. The service helps teams prioritize defenses and reduce security risks by analyzing real-world threat behavior. | $10M / Series A / Sep 03, 2025 | |
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FourBlock equips high potential veterans to achieve great careers at our nation’s top companies. | Grant / Jul 01, 2025 | |
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Conquest Planning provides financial planning software that integrates AI-driven analytics, real-time collaboration, and open APIs to support advisory workflows. The platform offers digital self‑service, collaborative hybrid, and traditional advisor‑led modes tailored to varied client needs. Its Strategic Advice Manager dynamically generatespersonalized strategies and adjusts plans using client data and tax‑aware modeling. The system centralizes data integration, scenario testing, and reporting to streamline advisor efficiency and client engagement. Multiple financial institutions deploy the platform to automate plan creation and foster goal‑based conversations without replacing human expertise. | $80M / Series B / Jun 23, 2025 | |
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Near Space Labs is an aerial imagery and earth observation company, Near Space Labs' imagery makes it easy to monitor assets and gain remote access over broad or specific areas. Near Space Labs offers cloud-based delivery of fully processed images through its API. The company provides frictionless, affordable imaging for insurance, utilities,infrastructure, conservation, smart cities, retail, energy, government, and disaster response. | $20M / Series B / Apr 29, 2025 | |
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Near Space Labs is an aerial imagery and earth observation company, Near Space Labs' imagery makes it easy to monitor assets and gain remote access over broad or specific areas. Near Space Labs offers cloud-based delivery of fully processed images through its API. The company provides frictionless, affordable imaging for insurance, utilities,infrastructure, conservation, smart cities, retail, energy, government, and disaster response. | $20M / Series B / Apr 29, 2025 | |
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Lumotive is a Seattle-based startup company developing high performance, solid-state lidar for autonomous systems in the automotive, UAV, robotics and related industries. The company's revolutionary beam-steering technology leverages Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces (or LCMs) implemented in mature semiconductor manufacturing processes to deliversmall, inexpensive 3D perception systems with unprecedented performance and reliability. For more information, visit us at www.lumotive.com. | $59M / Series B / Feb 19, 2025 | |
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Tidal Cyber is a cybersecurity company that provides a threat-led defense platform. The platform maps adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures to measure the effectiveness of a security stack. The service helps teams prioritize defenses and reduce security risks by analyzing real-world threat behavior. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 28, 2024 | |
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Bigeye offers data observability services that enable sales teams to monitor and analyze data quality across various environments. The platform includes features such as anomaly detection, lineage tracking, and automated monitoring to ensure data integrity. It supports integration with multiple data sources, providing comprehensive insights forinformed decision-making. | $5M / Oct 09, 2024 | |
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Grow Credit helps consumers with no credit or thin credit files establish or build credit for free using their existing subscription accounts, including Netflix, Disney Plus, Spotify, and many more. Grow is also the first platform to allow consumers to build credit with their cell phone bills. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in SantaMonica, California. | $10M / Series A / Sep 28, 2023 | |
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Trust & Will is an online service providing legal forms and information that makes creating estate planning easy, fast, and secure. It is not a law firm and is not a substitute for a lawyer’s advice about complex estate planning. The company is backed by some venture capital firms including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest, Western TechnologyInvestments, Luma Launch, Halogen Ventures, and Techstars, as well as angel investors.Trust & Will was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA. | $15M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 23, 2023 | |
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FAQ
What does USAA invest in?
USAA invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 58 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 USAA?
The team at USAA includes Michael Smith (Assistant Vice President, Corporate Development), Nathan McKinley (VP, Head of Corporate Development & Interim Head of Enterprise Strategy) and Amala Duggirala (EVP & Enterprise Chief Information Officer), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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