Matthew Jones

MS Transverse

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
8
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9y
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Board Member, UK
Apr 2023
Cowbell is the commercial insurance partner that makes brokers more successful by delivering coverage clients can actually understand and protection that strengthens their business. Cowbells mission is to make digital risks manageable, helping businesses understand, prevent, and recover with confidence. We believe that protection should create confidence, not complexity. We don’t add to the noise. We help you make sense of it. That is Cowbell—the Sound Approach to Risk.
mid stageInsurance
Board Observer
Jun 2020
Joshin is a modern support solution for disability and neurodivergence. Our customized blueprints for compliance, employee growth, and tailored support help you deliver a best-in-class employee experience to boost engagement, productivity, and retention.
Board Member
Jun 2019
We teach machines to understand how people behave so that any human/machine interaction is safe, efficient and – most importantly – more human. By combining novel deep learning, behavioural psychology and statistical AI, we’ve developed powerful and ethical computer-vision software that predicts human decision-making. This means we can quickly, safely and accurately provide context around interactions between people and machines, whether it’s a consumer device, home appliance, vehicle, gaming equipment or any automated machine. We help you make better-informed decisions – just connect our Behaviour AI platform to your camera for real-time insights, or give us access to your video footage for crucial historical analytics. We do all of this whilst prioritising individual privacy with our ethical AI technology. Our solutions: Telematics - Understand the cause of incidents with usable video insight for accurate insurance reporting and decreased vehicle downtime with speedy, accurate and usable scene reconstructions for post-incident reporting. Traffic Analysis, Monitoring and Management - we enable traffic monitoring and management providers to enrich current intelligent transport systems (ITS) by spotting multiple traffic patterns sooner - making confident decisions faster. ADAS - Our behaviour AI technology can enhance your ADAS solution by improving driver safety monitoring, vehicle tracking and navigation with precision decision making, allowing for more conservative safety mechanisms, with proven reduction in false positives. Health and Safety - We offer health and safety service providers an extra layer of superior safety enhancement, making it easier and faster to to identify the riskiest incidents happening across hazardous sites. Connect with Humanising Autonomy Twitter: https://humanising.link/Twitter YouTube: https://humanising.link/Youtube Subscribe to our newsletter: https://humanising.link/newsletter-subscribe
Board Member
Oct 2018
OnSiteIQ is a Construction Intelligence Platform for real estate owners and developers. Our clients explore stunning 360-degree imagery — from any device — to monitor progress, pinpoint issues, and collaborate with teammates. It's dead simple, but wildly powerful.
Board Observer
Oct 2018
Hokodo is Europe’s leading digital trade credit platform, empowering B2B merchants and marketplaces to offer instant, flexible payment terms. Bringing together payments, collections, credit protection, fraud management and financing, Hokodo enables growth by facilitating real-time trade credit for every sales channel. Flexible trade accounts, 30, 60 or 90 days terms and instalment payment plans enable buyers to benefit from a “Buy Now, Pay Later” experience that has been tailored to the high order values and complexities of B2B. Merchants get paid upfront and in full, while Hokodo handles collections and protects against risk. Our solutions can be integrated into any online or offline channel and the modularity of our solutions enables us to support businesses of all sizes. Our team cuts across geographical barriers and brings together financial services practitioners, engineers, data scientists and designers… all working together to create a better way of doing business! Want to join us on our journey? Drop us an email at jobs@hokodo.co Hokodo’s solutions are underwritten by American International Group UK Limited (AIG).
Board Member
Apr 2018
Flock is a UK Insurtech on a mission to make the world quantifiably safer with connected fleet insurance that enables and incentivises safer driving. 2022 Insurance Times Awards Winners 🥇 Excellence in Underwriting 🥇 MGA Challenger of the Year Flocks policies are backed by top underwriters, distributed by leading brokers and trusted by some of the UK’s most exciting fleets, including Virtuo, Onto and Jaguar Land Rover’s leasing arm ‘The Out’. Offering more than the obligatory motor certificate and occasional claims payments, Flock’s connected insurance actively rewards safer driving. Specialising in self-drive hire, trades, own goods delivery, and courier. With Flock, safer fleets pay less.
mid stageInsurance
Board Observer
Dec 2017
Stable is an industry risk club that helps supply chain professionals understand and manage volatile commodity prices. The club makes it easy to protect your balance sheet, save money and lower your tax bill.
Principal, Investments
May 2017
Anthemis is an early-stage venture capital firm shaping the future of the digital economy. Backing entrepreneurs at the intersections of financial services, AI, climate, insurance, healthcare and beyond, the firm combines deep sector expertise with a collaborative, founder-first approach. Through dedicated funds, venture labs, and strategic partnerships, Anthemis supports visionary founders building a more inclusive, transparent, and sustainable future.
Experience · 12 entries
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Investments (8)
Founder (1)
Board (7)
2024
Head of Ventures
May 2024
MS Transverse is a subsidiary of MSIG North America and part of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, one of the 10 largest P&C insurance companies in the world. MS Transverse is dedicated to the global program market and partners with MGAs, program administrators, and general agents to offer a full suite of insurance services. We believe that by aligning the interests of all parties involved in our programs – distribution partners, MS Transverse, and the reinsurance community – we can deliver outsized results to a market in need of responsible actors with experience and expertise.
Head of Ventures
May 2024
Transverse Ventures is a third party asset manager within MS Transverse. Our multi-LP fund structure leverages our in-house insurance experience and that of our strategic partners to make investments in insurance-related businesses globally. With our unique market position, network and knowledge, we help portfolio companies realize their full potential.
2023
Board Member, UK
Apr 2023
Cowbell is the commercial insurance partner that makes brokers more successful by delivering coverage clients can actually understand and protection that strengthens their business. Cowbells mission is to make digital risks manageable, helping businesses understand, prevent, and recover with confidence. We believe that protection should create confidence, not complexity. We don’t add to the noise. We help you make sense of it. That is Cowbell—the Sound Approach to Risk.
mid stageInsurance
2020
Board Observer
Jun 2020
Joshin is a modern support solution for disability and neurodivergence. Our customized blueprints for compliance, employee growth, and tailored support help you deliver a best-in-class employee experience to boost engagement, productivity, and retention.
2019
Board Member
Jun 2019
We teach machines to understand how people behave so that any human/machine interaction is safe, efficient and – most importantly – more human. By combining novel deep learning, behavioural psychology and statistical AI, we’ve developed powerful and ethical computer-vision software that predicts human decision-making. This means we can quickly, safely and accurately provide context around interactions between people and machines, whether it’s a consumer device, home appliance, vehicle, gaming equipment or any automated machine. We help you make better-informed decisions – just connect our Behaviour AI platform to your camera for real-time insights, or give us access to your video footage for crucial historical analytics. We do all of this whilst prioritising individual privacy with our ethical AI technology. Our solutions: Telematics - Understand the cause of incidents with usable video insight for accurate insurance reporting and decreased vehicle downtime with speedy, accurate and usable scene reconstructions for post-incident reporting. Traffic Analysis, Monitoring and Management - we enable traffic monitoring and management providers to enrich current intelligent transport systems (ITS) by spotting multiple traffic patterns sooner - making confident decisions faster. ADAS - Our behaviour AI technology can enhance your ADAS solution by improving driver safety monitoring, vehicle tracking and navigation with precision decision making, allowing for more conservative safety mechanisms, with proven reduction in false positives. Health and Safety - We offer health and safety service providers an extra layer of superior safety enhancement, making it easier and faster to to identify the riskiest incidents happening across hazardous sites. Connect with Humanising Autonomy Twitter: https://humanising.link/Twitter YouTube: https://humanising.link/Youtube Subscribe to our newsletter: https://humanising.link/newsletter-subscribe
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