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Pacific Life

700 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, CA, 92660, United States

Overview

Pacific Life provides a wide range of life insurance products, annuities, and mutual funds, and offers a variety of investment products and services to individuals, businesses, and pension plans. The company helped millions of individuals and families with their financial needs through a wide range of life insurance products, annuities, and mutual funds, and offers a variety of investment products and services to individuals, businesses, and pension plans. Pacific Life counts more than half of the 100 largest U.S. companies as its clients. The company was founded in 1868 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

Total investments
5
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
9

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Insurance
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Investment portfolio

  • Micruity

    Participated · 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.

  • AbsoluteCARE

    Participated · Equity · Jul 2025

    AbsoluteCare delivers a whole-person, PCP-led care model called Beyond Medicine™ that combines social determinants of health support, behavioral health, primary and urgent care, and integrated pharmacy. The company focuses on high-acuity Medicaid and Medicare members who average 13 diagnoses, take 10+ medications, and for whom 60% have a behavioral health or substance-use diagnosis. AbsoluteCare reports strong outcomes in its internal 2025 data, including a 34% reduction in emergency department visits, a 20–30% decrease in total cost of care, and 75–80% member engagement after one year. It operates comprehensive care centers in urban communities and extends care through hospital rounding and in-home visits. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, AbsoluteCare currently operates in 11 markets including Baltimore, Chicago, multiple Ohio cities, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. The company says it will continue scaling its concierge, PCP-led model and expand into new markets and member populations. AbsoluteCARE operates a patient-centered ambulatory intensive caring unit delivery model that serves complex, high-utilizing patients and functions as their primary care provider. The company emphasizes integrated primary care plus wrap-around services that address social determinants of health, including past trauma, addiction, food insecurity, and housing instability. AbsoluteCARE currently operates five facilities in Atlanta; Baltimore (2); Prince George’s County, Maryland; and Philadelphia, and since 2000 has treated tens of thousands of high-acuity, chronically ill patients. The business leverages population health management tools and extensive patient outreach to improve outcomes and lower costs for insurance partners. Leadership describes plans to expand interventions that address social determinants of health and to scale their model to serve vulnerable populations more broadly.

  • Policygenius

    Participated · Series E · Mar 2022

    Policygenius is an online insurance marketplace that enables users to discover coverage gaps and compare tailored policies through its Insurance Checkup™ and proprietary quoting engines. Founded in 2014 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the company has built integrations with major carriers and proprietary technology for quoting, underwriting, and fulfillment. It focuses on life, disability, home, and auto insurance and has invested in exclusive, integrated no-exam life offerings to address COVID-related medical exam impacts and improve the customer experience. Policygenius also offers Policygenius Pro and continues expanding its core businesses. In 2021 the company wrote $40 billion of new life insurance coverage, nearly 70% more than in 2019, and its home and auto new written premiums grew more than 6x from 2019 to 2021. Policygenius is on pace to be the single largest distribution platform for term life insurance this year. Policygenius provides a digital experience that guides consumers through the entire insurance buying process for multiple product lines, including life, home, auto, disability and renters. The company has built integrations with major insurance carriers and technology for quoting, underwriting and fulfillment to streamline purchase flow. In 2019 it launched a new property and casualty offering that scaled to more than $10 million in revenue in less than 12 months. Policygenius plans to use new funding for hiring and to unveil broader consumer financial protection products in 2020. The company was co-founded in 2014 by Jennifer Fitzgerald and Francois de Lame and operates from New York City and Durham, North Carolina. Its platform emphasizes carrier integrations and end-to-end digital underwriting and fulfillment. PolicyGenius has built an online marketplace and quoting engine that lets consumers answer questions, compare multiple insurance carriers and view side-by-side policy options. It began with life insurance and expanded to health, renters, long-term disability and pet insurance, and it also offers an "insurance checkup" tool to identify coverage gaps. The company reports that since its $15 million financing in January 2016 it has grown monthly revenues 7x and doubled its employee base. With the new financing it plans to expand into property and casualty policies and deepen partnerships with carrier partners. PolicyGenius has raised $52 million in venture funding to date. Co-founder and CEO Jennifer Fitzgerald said the company selected Norwest for its work with strong consumer-facing brands. PolicyGenius is a Brooklyn-based online insurance brokerage offering content, advice, online quotes and an application process for life, long-term disability, renters, and pet insurance. The company emphasizes its content and an insurance checkup tool as core product features. PolicyGenius had reached 800,000 users by the end of 2015. It operates as a broker and charges insurers a commission for each policy it places. CEO Jennifer Fitzgerald declined to disclose how many users became policyholders, so conversion and revenue figures were not provided. Fitzgerald said the company could in future white-label insurance products from carriers and sell them under its own brand. PolicyGenius operates a multi-product consumer insurance advice and shopping platform offering life, long-term disability, renters and pet insurance comparisons. Launched in July 2014 by Jennifer Fitzgerald and Francois de Lame, the company guides users through an Insurance Checkup™ — a five-minute Q&A that produces a personalized review of insurance needs. The platform combines expert content, partnerships and affiliate channels to expand accessibility and reach. PolicyGenius plans to strengthen existing product lines and refine individual insurance quoting engines. The company will scale its marketing and production teams in its Brooklyn offices and use strategic investor insight to quickly test and iterate new tools and services. The business recently completed a Series A financing to support these initiatives.

Team

  • Leland Stanford

    Founder

  • Vishal Hawa

    Principal

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  • Mary Beth Eckert

    Executive Vice President, Chief Information and Digital Officer ( December 13)

  • Howard Hirakawa

    Senior Vice President and Fund Advisor Operations

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