20 VC firms investing in insurance and robotics & automation at the Pre-Seed stage.
F4 Fund tracks 20 VC firms that actively invest in insurance + robotics & automation at the Pre-Seed stage, with check sizes ranging from $25K – $500M (median: $1.6M – $1.6M). As of August 2026, and 90% lead or co-lead rounds. Rankings are based on F4's proprietary analysis of 1,644+ researched VC firms, scored by data completeness, portfolio depth, investment recency, and stage alignment.
| # | Firm | Check Size | Portfolio | Leads? | Activity | Decision | Intro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ▶ Kearny Jackson The first investor for ambitious and relentless technology founders building transformative B2B companies. Kearny Jackson partners with founders at the moment of greatest conviction and product clarity, providing capital, strategic guidance, founder coaching, and access to deep networks. San Francisco | $100K – $5M | 35 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 2 | ▶ Madrona Venture Group Madrona invests in people and ideas for the long run — backing visionary founders building transformational technology companies, with deep focus on applied AI across domain-specific applications, AI infrastructure, developer tools, enterprise software, and AI-enabled biotech. The firm serves as an active, full-stack partner providing capital plus recruiting, business development, and customer introductions. Seattle | $500K – $50M | 52 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 3 | ▶ AfterWork Ventures Backing companies making a dent in the universe. We prioritize obsessively passionate founding teams and ambition over any specific industry vertical, powered by a 120+ member community of tech operators who source deal flow and support portfolio companies. Sydney | $100K – $500K | 48 | Follows | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 4 | ▶ AV8 Ventures Partner with visionary founders to build category-defining companies in healthcare, enterprise software, fintech/insurtech, and deep technology. Provide deep operational support, board participation, and access to domain expert network. Focus on companies solving problems in regulated or data-rich industries. Leverage Allianz's unique vantage point on risk, data, and regulation to identify opportunities at intersection of innovation and regulatory necessity. Palo Alto | $500K – $10M | 29 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 5 | ▶ Plug N Play Ventures Connect innovative startups to 550+ corporate partners who have real business problems to solve. Our platform creates a flywheel of pilots, enterprise customers, and follow-on capital for founders who value long-term partnership and have credible paths to $100M+ ARR. Sunnyvale | $25K – $3M | 51 | Both | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 6 | ▶ Pathlight Ventures Low volume, high conviction early-stage investing in 10 thematic areas where vertical AI is reshaping regulated, complex industries: healthcare, fintech, capital markets, industrial operations, security, and government. Back strongly opinionated founders building category-defining companies with direct operator support from a team with deep fintech and growth scaling experience. New York City | $250K – $3M | 41 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 7 | ▶ Montage Ventures Montage Ventures aims to support radical thinkers who are bringing new ideas and platforms to foster change within the financial services, commerce and health sectors, leveraging AI as a key transformative agent. | $250K – $1M | 51 | N/A | 2mo | N/A | N/A |
| 8 | ▶ Anti Fund The future is forged at the intersection of tech and culture. The best founders are 'anti' by definition—their companies must be highly disruptive to the status quo. While capital is a commodity, attention is not. Anti Fund uniquely wields cultural relevance to source founders and accelerate growth. Miami | $100K – $3M | 20 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 9 | ▶ 43 Fund Anabel Paksoy actively looks to invest in early-stage startups at Day 0, providing hands-on support tailored to the founder's unique needs. She focuses on founders who are passionate about solving specific problems, and investments are made quickly to take advantage of timely opportunities. | $250K – $500K | 38 | Leads | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 10 | ▶ ff Venture Capital ffVC invests in driven problem-solvers building high-potential companies in emerging industries: AI, Manufacturing, Energy, Robotics, and Security. We provide capital alongside deep operational expertise, board participation, and access to a 35,000+ founder and investor ecosystem. We bet on founders with industry expertise, clear paths to $100M+ revenue, and defensible competitive advantages. New York | $300K – $700K | 22 | Leads | Active | ~2 mo | Req'd |
| 11 | ▶ AIX Ventures AI-native companies where artificial intelligence is the core product and competitive moat, not just a feature. Three investment baskets: (1) AI infrastructure (vector databases, model serving, optimization), (2) vertical applications with 20%+ performance advantages, and (3) frontier research with clear commercialization paths. Palo Alto | $750K – $3M | 27 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 12 | ▶ Cake Ventures We invest in founders with global ambitions creating products that meet tomorrow's internet users' needs through demographic change. Focus on aging & longevity, spending power of women, and the new majority (majority-minority shift). San Francisco | $200K – $750K | 20 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 13 | ▶ Expansion Venture Capital Entrepreneurs, not VCs, build great companies. We invest early in great & passionate entrepreneurs and serve as long-term partners. Available 24/7 to help founders with mentorship, product-market fit, fundraising, business development, customer acquisition, talent sourcing, and strategic partnerships. New York | $250K – $1M | 30 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 14 | ▶ Cherry Ventures Cherry backs ambitious, resourceful, resilient founders with a novel insight ("anomaly") and a coherent, feasible path to an underexplored shared need ("the red thread"), investing industry-curiously across Europe often before product or revenue exist. Berlin | $2M – $7M | 30 | Both | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 15 | ▶ TenOneTen Ventures Technical founders backing technical founders. We invest early in technical teams transforming major industries facing existential threats and tremendous opportunities. We target essential sectors—healthcare, logistics, real estate, manufacturing—where technical innovation solves critical problems. Los Angeles | $250K – $5M | 25 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 16 | ▶ Atomic By combining ideas, capital, and talent, we can scale entrepreneurship and build transformational companies. We source 800+ ideas internally, recruit co-founders, and provide day-one operational support in design, engineering, finance, and recruiting. Miami | $300K – $10M | 20 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 17 | ▶ Founderful Switzerland produces world-class technical founders from institutions like ETH Zurich and EPFL. We aim to be the first, fastest, most founder-friendly institutional check for Swiss startups, covering the majority of a company's first 18-24 months of capital needs. Zurich | $1M – $2M | 15 | Leads | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 18 | ▶ Blume Ventures Partner early with visionary, technical founders building India-first technology companies, with a sub-thesis around Indian engineering talent extending to global markets. Mumbai | $200K – $2.5M | 16 | Leads | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 19 | ▶ Gigafund Back the world's most ambitious and transformative entrepreneurs capable of building world-defining companies over 20+ years. Invest in founders with independent thought and first-principles vision to solve humanity's biggest problems across all sectors and geographies. Austin | $1M – $500M | 18 | Leads | Active | 3+ mo | Open |
| 20 | ▶ TheoryForge Operator-led fund investing in ambitious founders building transformative AI applications. We partner with technical founders who understand AI/ML deeply and are solving real customer problems with capital efficiency. Great product is always the best marketing. | $200K – $500K | 38 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
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F4 Fund tracks 20 VC firms that actively invest in insurance + robotics & automation at the Pre-Seed stage. These firms are ranked using a composite score that weighs data completeness (30%), portfolio depth (30%), investment recency (25%), and stage alignment (15%).
Based on F4's analysis, the median check size for pre-seed insurance + robotics & automation investors is $1.6M – $1.6M, with a full range from $25K – $500M. The distribution breaks down as: 4 firms in the <$500K range, 3 firms in the $500K-$1M range, 6 firms in the $1M-$2M range, 3 firms in the $2M-$5M range, 2 firms in the $5M-$10M range, 2 firms in the $10M+ range.
Among the 20 firms tracked, 90% lead or co-lead rounds, and 5% typically follow. Founders seeking a lead investor should filter for firms marked "Leads" or "Both" in the rankings table above. Lead investors typically set deal terms and anchor the round.
The best pre-seed insurance + robotics & automation investors combine domain expertise with an active portfolio in the space. Among these firms, 21% prefer warm introductions, and the average firm has 31 portfolio companies. Look for firms whose check size matches your raise, whose stage preference aligns with yours, and who have a track record of supporting companies in your sector through multiple growth phases.
Firm profiles are continuously updated through F4's research pipeline, which combines LLM-powered web research, portfolio analysis, and transcript extraction. The ranking data refreshes every 12 hours. Editorial analysis is reviewed weekly. Individual firm profiles are re-researched on a 30-day cycle or when new information surfaces.