| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.02.2026 | Comeryx Redefines E&S Insurance with $7.5M for AI-Native MGA | Comeryx, a Denver-based AI-native MGA, has secured $7.5 million in seed funding. It targets the underserved small business artisan contractor market within Excess & Surplus (E&S) insurance. The platform revolutionizes underwriting. ... |
| 24.02.2026 | Comeryx: $7.5 Million Raised For AI-Native MGA Serving Small Business Artisan Contractors In E&S Insurance | Comeryx announced its formation and the closing of a $7.5 million funding round to build an AI-native, fully digital managing general agent focused on small business artisan contractors in the excess and surplus insurance market. The round ... |
| 22.02.2026 | Qumis: $4.3 Million Seed Funding Closed For Attorney-Trained AI Platform | Qumis, an attorney-trained AI platform focused on commercial insurance coverage intelligence, has raised $4.3 million in an oversubscribed seed round, bringing its total funding to $6.75 million. The round was led by MTech Capital, with new... |
| 16.09.2025 | Pathwork: $3.5 Million Seed Funding Raised To Transform Insurance Distribution | Pathwork, an autonomous distribution platform designed to modernize the $160 billion life and health insurance market, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Costanoa, with additional participation from Logos Fund, Am... |
| 10.09.2025 | AI-Powered Pathwork Secures $3.5M to Transform Insurance | San Francisco's Pathwork secured $3.5 million in seed funding. The AI startup targets the $1.1 trillion life and health insurance industry. Its platform modernizes outdated distribution, automating complex processes for brokers and carriers... |
| 10.09.2025 | Elysian: $6 Million Raised For Transforming Commercial Insurance Claims With AI | Elysian, a company focused on modernizing the way commercial insurance claims are handled, has announced a $6 million seed funding round. The funding was led by Portage, with additional support from American Family Ventures and TenOneTen Ve... |
| 10.09.2025 | Pathwork: $3.5 Million Seed Funding Secured To Modernize Life And Health Insurance | Pathwork, a San Francisco-based startup focused on transforming the life and health insurance industry, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Costanoa and joined by Logos Fund, American Family Ventures, Meridian Vent... |
| 09.09.2025 | Pathwork Raises $3.5M to Modernize Insurance with AI-Powered Distribution Platform | What You Should Know:
– Pathwork, an autonomous distribution platform modernizing the $160 billion life and health insurance market, has raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Costanoa, with participation from Logos Fund, American Family V... |
| 09.09.2025 | Pathwork Raises $3.5M in Seed Funding | Pathwork, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an autonomous distribution platform, raised $3.5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Costanoa, with participation from Logos Fund, American Family Ventures, Meridian Ventures, and angel inv... |
| 09.09.2025 | Pathwork raises $3.5 million | Pathwork, Pathwork
Founded: 2024
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
Total Funding: $3.78M
See full company profile "> a San Francisco-based startup on a mission to modernize life and health insurance distribution... |
| 05.09.2025 | Elysian Raises $6M in Seed Funding | Elysian, a Nashville, TN-based AI-native third-party administrator (TPA) for commercial insurance, raised $6M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Portage, with participation from American Family Ventures and TenOneTen Ventures.
The compan... |
| 03.04.2025 | Venteur's $20M Boost: A New Era for Personalized Health Benefits | In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, Venteur has emerged as a beacon of innovation. The San Francisco-based company recently secured $20 million in Series A funding, a significant leap that promises to reshape how businesses approa... |
| 01.04.2025 | Venteur Raises $20M to Expand Personalized Health Benefits Platform | What You Should Know:
– Venteur, a personalized health technology platform secures $20M in Series A funding round led by Informed Ventures and American Family Ventures, with strategic investment from Morgan Health, Catalyst by Wellstar, and... |
| 20.09.2022 | TCARE gains $17M in Series A funding for family caregiver support solution | When Ali Ahmadi, CEO of caregiver support solution TCARE, and his wife began experiencing burnout from taking care of Ahmadi’s mother, they thought what they needed was home care. But the opposite proved to be true.
“Home care is what every... |
| 02.04.2019 | Here’s why this German software startup wants to collect data from autonomous vehicles | Berlin-based automotive AI startup Teraki recently announced that it has raised €2 million in additional funding for its mission to provide breakthrough AI and edge data processing software to meet the exploding data demands of the $395 bil... |
| 29.03.2019 | Berlin-based automotive AI startup Teraki raises €2 million and launches DevCenter for customers | Berlin-based automotive AI startup Teraki has developed a platform that promises to bring a more than tenfold increase in efficiency to components used in automotive electronics, a €350 billion industry. Founded in 2014, the startup has now... |
| 09.11.2018 | Real estate startup Cozy sells to CoStar for $68M | Cozy CEO and co-founder Gino Zahnd.
Cozy, a Portland startup that helps more than 50,000 landlords screen potential tenants, market properties and easily collect rent, has been sold to CoStar group in a deal valued at $68 million.
“We belie... |
| 09.10.2018 | YourMechanic raises $10.2M Series B to expand into Canada, build a fleet solution | The startup's CEO says mobile auto repair makes sense to service an increasingly mobile world
A recent study showed more than half of the people surveyed used ride-sharing services. To service this increasing consumer demand, Uber and Lyft ... |
| 05.09.2018 | Harley, Gener8tor, Allergy Amulet & More: This Week’s WI Watchlist | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Keep up with news from Wisconsin’s innovation community with these recent headlines:
—Harley-Davidson, the iconic Milwaukee-based motorcycle manufacturer, said Wednesday that ... |
| 15.05.2018 | Vesper Raises $23M Series B | Vesper, developer of the world's most advanced piezoelectric sensors, today closed $23M in Series B funding, led by American Family Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on seed to growth stage rounds. Vesper also received investments fr... |
| 14.12.2017 | American Family Buys Chicago Firm to Expand Analytics, A.I. Use | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In recent years, American Family Insurance has spent significant amounts of money and time developing new technologies it believes could improve customers’ lives, as well as t... |
| 31.05.2017 | Gig Economy Growing in Wisconsin, Despite Early Pushback | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Independent contractors, temporary employees, and other so-called “contingent” workers make up a growing share of the American workforce. According to a 2015 report from the G... |
| 02.05.2017 | AXA Strategic Ventures Joins $15.5M Funding for One | One, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based software and payments solutions for the insurance industry, today announced that the company raised an over-subscribed $15.5 million financing co-led by American Family Ventures and Centana Growt... |
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| 24.04.2017 | Drew Aldrich Joins American Family Ventures as Principal | American Family Ventures, the Madison, WI-based corporate venture capital arm of American Family Insurance, added Drew Aldrich as Principal.
Aldrich previously was Director at AXA Equitable, Senior Associate at AXA Strategic Ventures, Chief... |
| 31.08.2016 | Abodo Adds $4.8M to Bring Apartment-Hunting Website to More Cities | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Abodo, a Madison, WI-based startup whose technology helps users find apartments and contact property managers, said on Wednesday that it had raised $4.8 million from investors... |
| 30.08.2016 | Cozy raises $8.4M to fuel growth of property rental management platform | Cozy CEO and co-founder Gino Zahnd.
Portland-based Cozy today announced an $8.45 million funding round that will help the startup grow its property rental management platform.
American Family Ventures, the VC arm of American Family Insuranc... |
| 30.08.2016 | Cozy raises $8.5M Series B to simplify life for property managers and renters | Cozy, a platform to streamline interactions between property managers and renters, closed an $8.5 million Series B today led by American Family Ventures, with participation from Social Capital, General Catalyst and all other investors that ... |
| 15.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 15, 2016 | Huanxi invested $50M in Mubi; Taulia Inc.received $46M; Keyme secured $20M funding
The Wireless Registry, a San francisco, CA-based global registry for wireless names and identifiers, raised $1.7 million in funding. Backers included members... |
| 09.02.2015 | Noise detectors that can make patients happier (and keep nurses in the loop) | The sensors are placed in patient rooms and a dashboard component helps alert nursing stations to areas where noise levels are greatest so they can take a closer look at what’s causing them and develop a solution. The company creates a scor... |
| 21.07.2014 | MiniMap, which maps your calendar, competes for Microsoft accelerator seat | Startups from Bushwick, Columbia University and Boston were among those on display last week, all vying for cash and a seat at a Microsoft-backed accelerator focused on home automation. Two if the nine appeared to be leaving stealth mode at... |
| 19.06.2014 | Review Trackers Raises $2M Series A Round To Help Businesses Better Manage Their Online Reputation | Review Trackers, a Chicago-based service that helps businesses aggregate and manage online reviews about them, today announced that it has raised a $2 million funding round for a wide range of Midwest-based investors. The round was led by M... |
| 18.06.2014 | American Family Ventures Exits Stealth Mode, Builds National Portfolio | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
American Family Insurance has quietly become perhaps the most active Wisconsin corporation in the local startup scene, but this week it made a splash with two high-profile ann... |
| 17.06.2014 | Gener8tor Grad Review Trackers Gets $2M From Wisconsin Investors | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Fresh off its participation in Gener8tor’s startup accelerator program in Wisconsin, Chicago-based Review Trackers has raised $2 million in Series A funding, mostly from Badge... |
| - | Noise detectors that can make patients happier (and keep nurses in the loop) | Since patient satisfaction survey results in HCAHPS began to impact hospital reimbursement a couple of years ago, healthcare facilities have taken a greater interest in developing ways to improve them. One Wisconsin-based IT business has ad... |
| - | Chamber Secures $8M to Empower Cardiologists to Transition into Value-Based Care | What You Should Know:
– Chamber Cardio (Chamber), a groundbreaking healthcare company designed to support cardiologists in the transition to value-based care raises $8M in seed funding led by General Catalyst, with participation from existi... |
