AmTrust Ventures

AmTrust Ventures is the corporate venture investment arm of AmTrust Financial Services, a New York City-based multinational property and casualty insurance holding company. Founded in 2017, the venture unit operates as a strategic investment vehicle aligned with AmTrust Financial's core expertise in workers' compensation, commercial automobile, general liability, and other P&C insurance lines. Managing Partner Adam Karkowsky leads the investment activity, with strategic oversight from AmTrust Financial co-founder and CEO Barry Zyskind. The firm invests at Series A and Series B stages with check sizes of $1 million to $10 million, concentrating on insurtech and financial software. Its most prominent investment is Sure, a leading insurtech platform, which received a Series A investment in June 2017. The firm has made one recorded portfolio investment to date, reflecting its character as a targeted strategic vehicle rather than a broad-based corporate venture program. AmTrust Ventures operates at the intersection of insurance expertise and technology investment, evaluating opportunities that can enhance or extend the parent company's insurance operations. For founders building in insurtech and fintech, the fund offers not only capital but direct access to an established insurer with a global portfolio of commercial lines clients — a distribution and partnership advantage that purely financial investors cannot replicate.