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QBE Ventures

Founders Marcus Marchant

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Total investments 14
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 13
Rounds per year 0.10
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.07
Exits 1
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Insurance
  • Software
  • Machine Learning
  • Computer
Summary

The venture was found in Australia. QBE Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Sydney.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the QBE Ventures, startups are often financed by Plug and Play Insurtech, University of Cambridge Enterprise, Third Kind Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are University of Cambridge Enterprise, Starr Global Holding, Sparkland Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TD Ameritrade, Stripes, QBE Insurance Group.

The fund was created by Marcus Marchant. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Risk Management, Insurance. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight HyperScience, Zeguro, Cytora.

The top activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The average startup value when the investment from QBE Ventures is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aurora Insurance

Insurance
23 Oct 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

CLARA analytics

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Insurance
InsurTech
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
$24M07 Sep 2023 San Jose, California, United States

Catalyst Technologies

Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$3M12 Oct 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The Demex Group

$9M02 Dec 2021 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Jupiter Intelligence

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Information Technology
Software
$54M21 Oct 2021 California, United States

Tensorflight

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Database
InsurTech
Property Insurance
$4M13 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States

Jupiter Intelligence

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Information Technology
Software
$23M04 Mar 2019 California, United States

Zeguro

Cyber Security
Insurance
$5M05 Nov 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Artificial Intelligence
Commercial Insurance
FinTech
Information Technology
Insurance
Risk Management
Software
$5M06 Dec 2017 London, England, United Kingdom

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Total investments 14
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 0.10
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.07
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.64

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aurora Insurance

Insurance
23 Oct 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

CLARA analytics

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Insurance
InsurTech
Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics
$24M07 Sep 2023 San Jose, California, United States

Catalyst Technologies

Enterprise Software
SaaS
Software
$3M12 Oct 2022 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The Demex Group

$9M02 Dec 2021 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Jupiter Intelligence

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Information Technology
Software
$54M21 Oct 2021 California, United States

Tensorflight

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Database
InsurTech
Property Insurance
$4M13 Oct 2021 New York, New York, United States

Jupiter Intelligence

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer
Information Technology
Software
$23M04 Mar 2019 California, United States

Zeguro

Cyber Security
Insurance
$5M05 Nov 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Artificial Intelligence
Commercial Insurance
FinTech
Information Technology
Insurance
Risk Management
Software
$5M06 Dec 2017 London, England, United Kingdom
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