Martha Notaras

Martha Notaras is Managing Partner at Brewer Lane Ventures, investing in early stage insurtech and fintech companies focusing on creating new business models, empowering incumbents and leveraging insights from data & analytics. Prior to joining Brewer Lane Ventures, Martha was a Partner at XL Innovate, investing in insurtech startups. XL Innovate's insurtech investments include Lemonade, Embroker, New Energy Risk, GeoQuant, Cape Analytics, Slice Labs and Pillar Technologies. Martha serves on the board of Palomar Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLMR).

Previously, Martha ran corporate development for DMG Information, the business data and analytics division of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc. Of the 20 investments Martha made at DMG Information, two achieved and maintained valuations over $1 billion. Martha has served as board director or chair for many early and growth stage companies, focusing on fintech, insurtech, proptech, edtech and digital media. Her proptech investments included Environmental Data Resources, Landmark Information Group, Property & Portfolio Research, Real Capital Analytics and Sanborn Map Company.

Martha’s prior experience includes investment banking at Merrill Lynch and commercial banking at Credit Suisse. Martha earned her A.B. cum laude from Princeton University and her MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar, awarded for graduating in the top five percent of the class.