Thomson Reuters Ventures

Thomson Reuters Ventures (TR Ventures) is the corporate venture capital arm of Thomson Reuters, the Toronto-based professional information and software company. It launched its first $100M evergreen fund in 2021 and announced a second $150M fund in February 2025, part of Thomson Reuters' 'Build, Partner, Buy' strategy. The firm is an early-stage enterprise-technology investor backing companies at the seed and Series A stages across legal technology, tax and accounting, fintech, risk, fraud and compliance, insurtech and news and media, with a strong emphasis on generative-AI applications that embed into the daily workflows of legal, tax and financial professionals. Led by Managing Director Tamara Steffens, who started the unit in January 2022, TR Ventures takes a 'financial returns first' approach, requiring every deal to stand as a top-tier VC opportunity independent of strategic fit; Fund 2 writes checks of roughly $4M to $7M and plans 20 to 25 investments over three years. The first fund made 23 investments; total portfolio activity is around 30 deals, with the latest being Greenlite's Series A in May 2025. Portfolio companies include Blaze in enterprise AI marketing, Zamp AI in sales-tax automation, HerculesAI in insurance AI workers, Detected, Noetica and Wisedocs. A standout outcome was Materia, an agentic-AI company TR Ventures backed and that Thomson Reuters subsequently acquired to enhance its AI capabilities for tax, audit and accounting professionals. By pairing financially disciplined investing with the strategic reach of a major professional-information company, TR Ventures backs the AI tools reshaping professional workflows.