# Top 25 InsurTech Startup Investors in Oceania in October 2023

## Jelix Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand. We invest from pre-seed to Series A, and partner with ambitious and daring founders building the future.

## Greenlight Reinsurance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: George Town, Midland, Cayman Islands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Insurance, InsurTech, Financial Services

Greenlight Re (www.greenlightre.ky) is a specialist property and casualty reinsurance company based in the Cayman Islands and Ireland.  The company provides a variety of custom-tailored reinsurance solutions to the insurance, risk retention group, captive and financial marketplaces.  Established in 2004, Greenlight Re selectively offers customizedreinsurance solutions in markets where capacity and alternatives are limited.  With a focus on deriving superior returns from both sides of the balance sheet, Greenlight Re's assets are managed according to a value-oriented, equity-focused strategy that complements the Company's business goal of long-term growth in book value per share.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## Folklore Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Information Technology

Folklore is a team of investors, founders, and builders committed to supporting Australian and New Zealand tech founders. We are a first cheque to forever investment firm, and we believe in the power of founder vision and the potential of teams, right from the start.

## Icehouse Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand.

## Carthona Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.

## Patricia Priest
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, InsurTech, Insurance

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## Brick & Mortar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Construction, Software, Information Technology

Focused exclusively on venture capital opportunities in "technology for the built world," Brick & Mortar Ventures identifies, backs, and enables emerging companies developing innovative software and hardware solutions for the industries of real estate, hospitality, and construction. Its hyper-focused mandate allows Brick & Mortarto continuously develop industry expertise and relationships across these three large and growing verticals and build value to its portfolio by taking a hands-on, active role as an investor and partner to its companies.

## Transition Level Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Software

Founded by Steve Baxter, Transition Level Investments provides equity capital and operational expertise across Seed and Series A rounds to Australian companies.
Our team focuses on a company-growth approach, adding value by assisting founders to build their expertise, expand their team, build product, scale locally and globally to position for asuccessful exit. We have a track record of identifying investment opportunities in the Australian market and helping enable global growth.

## BetterLabs Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Australia, Isabela, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed

BetterLabs are seeking investment opportunities that use technology to solve specific customer problems. BetterLabs are looking for investments that have a B2C or B2B2C focus. We also see tech as an enabler rather than an end or solution in itself.

## Allectus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

Allectus Capital is an investment company with a value focused portfolio of disruptive technology businesses. Allectus oversees and supports c.US$200m in technology assets across the Asia Pacific, UK and US and is managed by ICM Limited

## Hunter Equity Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Insurance, Finance, InsurTech

Hunter Equity Group is a experienced private investors, focussed on quality insurance industry opportunities.

## Counterview Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Counterview Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm focused on investments in seed-stage technology companies

## Alium Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Alium Capital focuses on listed and unlisted technology investments to generate out-sized returns. The company invests in technology, innovation, and early-stage businesses, all the way through to publicly listed assets.
It specializes in the fields of finance, investing, innovation, and capital.Alium Capital was founded in 2016 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.

## AirTree Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paddington, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.

## Union Square Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

## Giant Leap Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, SaaS

Giant Leap is Australia's first venture capital fund to be 100% dedicated to investing in exceptional, rapidly scalable impact businesses.

## Nine Four Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Construction

Nine Four Ventures is a multi-stage PropTech fund that invests in companies impacting the people, processes, and ecosystems that interact with the built world.

## Rafael Niesten
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, InsurTech, Insurance

Rafael Niesten is the CTO & Co-Founder at JRC Software

## Ice Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Internet

iceangels.co.nz - New Zealand most active Angel Network. A network for New Zealand's leading entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and professional investors. 

## Colin Morgan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, InsurTech, Insurance

Colin Morgan

## Fifty-Second Celebration
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: InsurTech, Insurance, Marketplace

Fifty-Second Celebration is a private Australian company. Fifty-Second Celebration was incorporated on May 28, 1982 and as of March 11, 2017 is a registered Australian private company.

## Alma Mundi Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, InsurTech, Insurance

We back bold and purpose-driven founders.

## Antler Australia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Financial Services

Australia's only truly global early stage VC, we believe in and back the most ambitious founders from the earliest stage.

## Raf Uy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, InsurTech, Insurance

Raf Uy is the Global Chief Financial Officer at etika. He was a Non Executive Director at Challenger Pay Enterprises. Raf attended Macquarie University.

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