Nationwide Ventures
One Nationwide Plaza, Columbus, OH, 43215, United States
Overview
Nationwide Ventures invests in startups, pilots new technologies, and tests new solutions and business models. We focus on delivering next-generation experiences for Nationwide’s customers by exploring leading-edge topics from analytics and automation technology to new insurance and financial services platforms.
- Total investments
- 24
- Lead investments
- 2
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 5
Sector focus
- Auto Insurance
- Cyber Security
- Insurance
- InsurTech
- Retirement
Investment portfolio
- Micruity
Led · Series A · Dec 2025
Micruity is a New York–based infrastructure company focused on making "retirement paychecks" possible for millions of savers by connecting the disparate players in the workplace savings ecosystem. Its platform offers scalable support for lifetime income products, annuity-enabled target-date funds, and Secure 2.0 features, while standardizing connectivity among recordkeepers, asset managers, and insurers. The system also handles participant-level income administration and portability, enabling employees to maintain consistent retirement income even when they change jobs. Micruity partners with leading financial institutions to embed these capabilities directly into existing retirement plans. The company intends to use newly raised capital to expand operations and accelerate product development. No revenue, customer, or other operating metrics were disclosed in the article.
- Atomic
Participated · Equity · Aug 2025
Founded in 2020 by Emma Marriott, Marco Alban-Hidalgo, and David Dindi, Atomic delivers an investing-as-a-service platform that enables fintechs, banks, insurers, and consumer brands to embed investing and wealth-management products directly into their own offerings. Its API and brokerage infrastructure support fractional investing, direct indexing, and global trading, giving partners rapid, compliant market access without building their own brokerages. The technology already powers investing experiences for companies such as NerdWallet, Yieldstreet, and Bluevine. Atomic’s mission is to make wealth-building accessible to every human being. In August 2025 the company secured $30 million in new growth capital, bringing additional resources to accelerate expansion. Management plans to use the proceeds to widen regulatory coverage, broaden the product suite, and deepen global partnerships. Existing investors QED Investors, Anthemis, and Y Combinator returned for this round, underscoring continued confidence in the firm’s trajectory.
- EVident Battery
Participated · Seed · Apr 2025
EVident Battery develops rapid, non-destructive EV battery pack inspection solutions powered by AI that execute in less than two minutes. The company’s diagnostics target non-cell failures and structural integrity issues that are undetectable without teardown, aiming to improve pack longevity, manufacturing quality control, and secondary-market transparency. EVident has launched a pilot product to validate performance, refine its AI models, and begin real-world deployment. The company plans to standardize EV battery service and inspection and to build a centralized EV battery database for full transparency. EVident will use newly raised capital to expand R&D, enhance manufacturing capabilities, form strategic partnerships, and hire engineering, manufacturing, and business development staff. It recently closed a $3.2 million seed round to finance these initiatives.
- Vigil
Participated · Seed · Feb 2025
Vigil offers an API-driven SaaS data platform that helps annuity carriers and distributors deliver digital post-issue service to agents and policyholders. The platform focuses on digitizing service forms, reducing not-in-good-order (NIGO) submissions and tracking request status. Vigil’s solution targets common operational frictions in annuity servicing and distribution workflows. The company plans to use the new funding to expand operations and accelerate product development. Vigil was co-founded by Mason Entingh and Reis Renneker and is based in Columbus, OH. The article does not disclose revenue or user metrics.
- arqu
Participated · Series A · Sep 2024
arqu is a tech-enabled wholesale insurance brokerage transforming transactions in the $100bn Excess & Surplus (E&S) market with proprietary technology that equips brokers with data and analytics. Its platform enables brokers to pre-underwrite risks and perform portfolio-level analytics, allowing analysis of national property portfolios and large-scale loss schedules with just a few clicks. The company recently launched portfolio-level analytics and emphasizes arming brokers with data to share the burden of risk discovery traditionally borne by underwriters. arqu works with 20 of the largest retail brokerages, recently completed its largest single placement (multi-million in premium) and is on track for its largest production quarter since inception. The Series A funding will support expansion into new industry verticals and accelerate product development to scale beyond Construction into Real Estate, Energy and Environmental near-term, with additional verticals targeted for 2025.