Chris Quinn is a principal at Allstate Strategic Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Illinois-headquartered insurance company Allstate.
Based in Santa Monica, Quinn started at Allstate in 2021, where he sources and assesses new investment opportunities, manages portfolio companies and analyses market trends. He also oversees investments in climate tech, sales and marketing, insuretech and martech verticals and helped push two portfolio companies to exit in 2023.
“Chris has been a positive and productive member of Allstate Strategic Ventures and deserves to be recognised for his hard work”
His efforts have been noted by Reese Schroeder, a managing director of Allstate Strategic Ventures. “Chris learned very quickly and closed his first investment transaction just eight months after joining in 2021,” says Schroeder. “He has produced a robust pipeline of deals and new network relationships for the team and has taken a leadership role in our efforts to build out our West Coast presence.”
Schroeder continues: “He has also been leading the financial due diligence on a number of additional deals. Chris has been a positive and productive member of Allstate Strategic Ventures and deserves to be recognised for his hard work.”
Prior to his role at Allstate, Quinn had a successful career in investment banking. He worked at BMO Capital Markets for two years, covering the industrial sectors. From 2018-2021 he was at Moelis & Company in Boston, where he worked on transactions in a variety of sectors including industrial technology, software, home building, oil and gas and healthcare.
Quinn received his degree in economics from Johns Hopkins University. Founded in 2015, Allstate Strategic Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Allstate. The firm invests in series A to C companies and writes $1m-$10m checks. It invests in a variety of verticals including insurtech, fintech, proptech, enterprise SaaS, mobility and climate tech, among others. Notable investments include Stride, Inrupt and Prevailion.
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