Venpace

Venpace is a company builder and venture capital firm, developing and investing in digital business models for the insurance industry. It identifies market challenges, initiating new ventures or providing strategic pre-seed and seed-stage capital to innovative startups. Leveraging deep sectoral understanding, Venpace fosters solutions integrating technology to modernize and optimize traditional insurance operations, offering hands-on support beyond finance.

Established in 2020 in Cologne, Germany, Venpace emerged from the insight that the insurance sector required digital transformation. Co-founded by Dr. Walter Botermann, a German insurance veteran, and Ingo Küpper, creative head of crossbuilders, the firm combines extensive industry knowledge with proven company-building expertise. This collaboration bridges traditional insurance with innovative digital solutions.

Venpace supports passionate founding teams developing digital solutions for the evolving insurance market. Its strategic investors, including major insurance groups, provide funding and direct access to industry challenges. The firm's overarching vision is to rethink and shape the future of the insurance industry, empowering new digital models that enhance efficiency, customer experience, and market relevance, fostering a forward-looking ecosystem.