Galen Shaffer is a Principal at Eos Venture Partners, an InsurTech specialist VC fund. Eos Venture Partners is a strategic venture capital fund that focuses exclusively on InsurTech, aiming to bridge the "digital chasm" between InsurTech startups and traditional insurance companies. Eos typically leads Series A investments in startups building solutions across the insurance value chain and adjacent verticals like wealth, cybersecurity, and employee benefits. Before joining Eos, Galen worked for five years in McKinsey's Insurance Practice across their Boston and Los Angeles offices. While at McKinsey, she led teams that concentrated on digital transformation and new business innovation strategy for Fortune 500 firms in life, personal, and commercial lines. Galen holds a BA from Wellesley and an MBA from MIT Sloan. While at MIT Sloan, she was the co-President of Sloan’s Management Consulting Club. Prior to Sloan, she worked at Harvard Business School as a casewriter for Professor John R. Well and co-authored 26 corporate strategy cases on companies such as H&M and CarMax. Recent investments by Eos Venture Partners include Bamboo (exit: White Mountains Insurance Group, NYSE: WTM), Fenix24, Mulberri, and Cygnvs.
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