New York Life Ventures is a New York based venture capital firm investing in financial technology companies. It is an investment arm of New York Life Insurance Company, one of the largest life insurance companies in the United States. Joel Albarella founded the company in 2012 which has its headquarter in Madison Avenue, New York. It seeks to invest in companies involved in enterprise software, financial services, entertainment, and insurance which align with the business interest of its parent company. As of December 2019, it has made 22 investments with three successful exits.
Timeline
Funded Companies
VLocity was a San Francisco-based developer of cloud CRM apps founded in 2014 by James Ramsey, Mark Armenante, Craig Ramsey, David Schmaier, Jeff Amann and Young Sohn.
Trifacta is a company offering a data wrangling platform.
Cogito is an enterprise cloud computing and software development company making software to enhance the emotional intelligence of phone professionals.
People
Elizabeth Yenko
Innovation Services
Joel Albarella
Head of New York Life Ventures
Sahar Omrani
Chief of Staff
Sean Madgett
Business Development
Tim Del Bello
Investments
