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W.R. Berkley Corporation

475 Steamboat Road, Greenwich, CT, 06830, United States

Overview

W. R. Berkley, an insurance holding company, operates as a commercial lines writer in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Insurance and Reinsurance. The Insurance segment underwrites commercial insurance business, including premises operations, commercial automobile, property, products liability, and professional liability lines. It also provides workers’ compensation, property casualty, general liability, professional liability, and excess and umbrella coverage insurance products, as well as coverages for technology, ambulatory surgery centers, chiropractors, and concierge physicians; accident and health insurance and reinsurance products; insurance for commercial risks; pollution liability and coverages to contractors, consultants, and owners; and liquor liability and inland marine coverage for small to medium-sized insureds. Moreover, this segment offers directors and officers, and surety risk products, as well as products for life sciences and travel industries; coverage for excess liability, construction wrap-ups, and completed operations; cyber risk solutions; casualty, group life, and crime-related insurance products; personal lines insurance solutions, including home, condo/co-op, and collectibles; automobile, law enforcement, public officials and educator's legal, and employment practices liability, as well as incidental medical insurance products; and at-risk and alternative risk insurance program management services. The Reinsurance segment provides other insurance companies and self-insureds with assistance in managing their net risk through reinsurance on a portfolio basis through treaty reinsurance or on an individual basis through facultative reinsurance. William R. Berkley founded W. R. Berkley in 1967. It has its headquarters in Greenwich in Connecticut.

Total investments
14
Lead investments
7
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
10

Sector focus

  • Auto Insurance
  • Financial Services
  • Health Insurance
  • Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Professional Services
  • Property Insurance
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Investment portfolio

  • Champ

    Led · Equity · Dec 2025

    CHAMP Titles builds and operates CHAMPgov, a cloud-based system of record that lets state motor vehicle agencies digitize titles, registrations, liens, driver’s licenses, and related workflows. The company’s patented technology replaces paper-heavy legacy DMV infrastructure with an end-to-end electronic platform used by dealers, insurers, lenders, fleets, and consumers. More than 35 million Americans can now access CHAMP’s services through state contracts, and tens of millions of transactions have already run on the system. States adopting the platform reportedly cut processing times from 40-60 days to mere hours while eliminating millions of paper documents. In 2024 the firm expanded into Louisiana for both Vehicle and Driver Services, and it is commercializing the National Digital Titling Clearinghouse for interstate transactions. CHAMP operates on a pay-as-you-transact SaaS model, carries patents around digital titling, and has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 lists. Founded in 2018, the Cleveland-based company has raised more than $100 million to date to fuel continued nationwide adoption.

  • Notable

    Led · Series A · Sep 2025

    Notable offers a revolving line of credit that allows home sellers to cover staging, painting, repairs, and other pre-sale upgrades with no money due until the transaction closes. The company distributes its product through white-label programs embedded with more than 100 top brokerages, including Compass, Redfin, and The Agency. To date, it has enabled over 35,000 homeowners to access more than $1 billion in credit, and listings prepared with Notable sell 31 % faster and command 9 % higher prices than market benchmarks. Agents have responded strongly: the firm’s agent footprint expanded more than 400 % in the past year. Notable positions itself as the infrastructure layer for a modern real-estate transaction and plans to develop additional financial tools that support homeowners throughout the entire ownership cycle. The newly raised capital will be used to accelerate network expansion among agents and service professionals and to build those new homeowner products.

  • Syntis Bio

    Participated · Series A · Jul 2025

    Syntis Bio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing oral therapies that harness the small intestine’s biology via its SYNT™ (SYNthetic Tissue-lining) platform. The SYNT platform delivers a transient polydopamine polymer coating in the small intestine to control nutrient uptake, sustain gut-restricted enzymes, and increase oral drug absorption for up to 24 hours. The company’s lead program, SYNT-101, is being developed as a once-daily pill for obesity and has shown preclinical weight-loss and muscle-preservation data as well as early human evidence of nutrient redirection, satiety-hormone modulation, and favorable safety. Syntis is also advancing SYNT-202, a first-in-class oral enzyme therapy for the rare pediatric disorder homocystinuria, and plans Phase 1 studies for both programs. Data from over 100 preclinical pig studies conducted by MIT and Syntis indicate SYNT can block glucose, improve enzyme activity, and increase oral drug bioavailability. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA. Syntis Bio is advancing a portfolio of oral therapies engineered to exploit the small intestine’s biology for metabolic control, digestion and drug absorption. Its lead program, SYNT-101, is a once-daily pill that transiently blocks nutrient absorption in the duodenum to mimic gastric bypass; a formulation is in human trials with a full data readout expected by the end of 2024 and plans to use those data to support an IND filing with the FDA in 2025. The company’s SYNT™ (SYNthetic Tissue-lining) platform delivers a transient polydopamine coating to the duodenum that persists up to 24 hours and, in more than 100 preclinical pig studies, has demonstrated up to 70% glucose blocking, 20x improved enzyme activity, and 4–10x increased oral drug bioavailability. In April 2024 Syntis acquired engineered enzyme programs from Codexis and is developing SYNT-202 for homocystinuria and SYNT-203 for maple syrup urine disease; both completed non-human primate studies and an IND for one candidate is anticipated in 2025. The company is also developing next-generation formulations and discovery-stage programs targeting pancreatic insufficiency and peptic ulcers. Syntis is headquartered in Boston and has raised $15.5 million to date from life-sciences and strategic investors.

  • UVeye

    Participated · Equity · Jan 2025

    UVeye is an AI-driven vehicle inspection technology company that provides automated, data-driven diagnostics often described as an "MRI for vehicles". Its product suite includes underbody scanners, tire analyzers, and 360-degree exterior detection systems. Those systems have been installed at hundreds of dealerships, fleet sites, and auction lots globally. Clients include Amazon and General Motors. Led by CEO Amir Hever and based in Teaneck, NJ, the company raised $191M in the latest funding round, bringing total capital raised to $380.5M. UVeye plans to use the funds to expand globally, increase large-scale manufacturing capacity, and strengthen strategic partnerships. UVeye builds automated vehicle-inspection systems that use computer vision and machine learning to quickly and accurately inspect vehicles. The company produces three inspection systems: an underbody scanner, a tire system, and a 360-degree exterior system that can scan moving vehicles in seconds. Since its founding in 2016, UVeye has secured commercial agreements with OEMs and dealers including General Motors, Volvo Cars USA and CarMax and supports dealerships, auctions, insurance companies and commercial fleets. The company employs about 200 people and is based in New Jersey and Tel Aviv, with additional offices in Japan and Germany. UVeye plans to start production of its inspection systems in North America and accelerate sales growth to reach thousands of dealerships, used-car auctions and fleets within the next three years. Management sees longer-term opportunities serving EVs, autonomous and robotaxi fleets for safety and predictive maintenance by combining vehicle sensors with UVeye's capabilities. Financially, the company has raised roughly $200 million since 2016 and its valuation is about $800 million after the latest round. UVeye develops high-speed automated vehicle-inspection systems that combine proprietary algorithms, cloud architecture, artificial intelligence, machine learning and sensor fusion. Its drive-through scanners detect external and mechanical flaws, anomalies, modifications and foreign objects from under and from any side of a vehicle, completing scans within seconds and usable across a vehicle’s lifecycle. The technology was originally developed for the security industry to detect weapons and contraband and is now applied in the automotive industry to find quality issues such as oil leaks, paint scratches, tire damage, brake-line damage and exhaust-system problems. Founded in 2016 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, UVeye operates facilities in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region, with offices in Israel, Japan, Germany and the U.S. The company has 100 employees. UVeye raised $60m in Series C funding and intends to use the proceeds for global expansion. UVeye develops automated vehicle-inspection systems that combine proprietary algorithms, cloud architecture, artificial intelligence, machine learning and sensor fusion to standardize and speed previously manual inspections. Its platforms serve both homeland security and automotive customers across the vehicle lifecycle, including supplier and OEM assembly lines, new-car showrooms, dealership service departments and used-vehicle auction sites. The company has installed systems at assembly plants, auction sites and dealerships around the world and has offices in Tel Aviv, Cleveland and New York, as well as locations in Japan and Germany. UVeye is led by CEO and co-founder Amir Hever and employs more than 100 people. The company says it will use the new funds to accelerate its global expansion plans and to enable Hyundai to deploy UVeye’s products across its operations worldwide. Since it was founded four years ago, UVeye has raised more than $40m from carmakers and other strategic investors including W. R. Berkley Corporation. UVeye develops vertically integrated drive-through scanning systems (hardware and software) that capture exterior, tire and undercarriage images and use computer vision and AI to detect anomalies. Its fully automated platform can read moving cars (up to ~20 mph) and detect cosmetic anomalies as small as 2 millimeters. Customers and use cases include OEMs, rental and used-car companies, insurers, security services, governments and ride-hailing fleets for inspections, claims and lifecycle management. The company is exploring deeper integration with vehicle diagnostics and potential expansion into interior/cargo scanning and logistics/security verticals. UVeye emphasizes full automation to replace manual inspections and continues to optimize its system and scale deployment to meet demand. Financially, the company has raised a new $31M round, bringing total capital raised to about $35M.

  • Homee

    Led · Series C · Oct 2024

    Homee provides an AI-driven direct repair network and a curated marketplace of service providers that connects insurers, policyholders, and skilled service providers across the lifecycle of a claim. The company’s core product includes an AI Smart-Claim management platform used by firms in the insurance sector to improve the claims experience. Homee said it will use the new funding to accelerate software development for that AI Smart-Claim platform. Financially, the company reported its fifth consecutive record quarter with revenue growth of 15% and claim assignment growth of 14% over the prior quarter. Operationally, Homee expanded nationwide repair coverage by over 300% in 2024 to cover more than 7 million homes in 38 states and has seen a 250% increase in claims assigned to its network since Q1 2024. The company is led by CEO Doug Schaedler. HOMEE is a Tampa-based technology platform that connects insurers, policyholders, and skilled service providers in the claims process. Its platform is used by leading insurance and warranty firms to handle small-to-medium losses typically under $25,000 and pairs with a network of 20,000+ registered contractors. Over the past year HOMEE experienced a dramatic increase in claims volume, contributing to record financial results for the first six months of 2021. The company plans to use new capital to enhance its technology suite and launch new markets to further service carriers and expand its service provider network across the United States. Its investor base includes insurance-affiliated institutions such as Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, State Farm Ventures, Hartford Investment Management Company, Desjardins, and other strategic investors. Homee offers a single software solution for property maintenance, dispatching professionals, and insurance claims processing. Its platform supports homes, condos, offices, and restaurants and the company counts some of the largest national single-family and multi-family portfolio companies as clients. Homee's solution includes FNOL, estimates, payments, proof of completion, and the ability to capture and deliver job site videos and photos to insurers. The company has moved into the insurance space with claims processing for home and home warranty claims and provides insurance products for pros via partnerships with Coterie, CoverWallet, and AP Intego. Homee was founded in 2016. The company disclosed a new $4.5 million financing following a $15 million round announced less than a year earlier. Homee operates an on-demand home services platform that lets homeowners and property managers access thousands of skilled service providers. Led by co-founder and CEO Doug Schaedler, the service supports homes, condos, offices and restaurants. Using GPS-enabled smartphone technology, providers accept new job requests in under a minute on average and arrive at job locations in about 30 minutes or less. Every service provider is background-checked, screened by the company’s operations team, and continually monitored via the app’s provider rating system. The company counts some of the largest national single-family and multi-family portfolio companies among its clients. Homee says it will use the Series B proceeds to launch new markets and expand its service provider network across the United States. Homee is an on-demand property maintenance platform that gives homeowners and property managers instant access to skilled service providers. Led by co-founder and CEO Doug Schaedler, the Tampa, Fla.-based company uses GPS-enabled smartphone technology so providers accept new requests in under a minute on average and arrive to jobs in about 30 minutes or less. Every service provider is background-checked and screened by Homee’s operations team and continuously monitored via the app’s provider rating system to maintain quality. Homee’s service covers any property type, including homes, condos, offices and restaurants. The company plans to use the Series A proceeds to launch new markets and expand its vendor network across the United States. The startup completed an $11M Series A financing.

Team

  • William Berkley

    Founder ,Chairman and CEO

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  • Robert Stone

    EVP, Excess & Surplus Lines Segment

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  • William Rohde, Jr.

    Senior Vice President

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  • Jonathan Levine

    Vice President – Chief Marketing Officer

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