A SORENSON IMPACT FUND
Collaboration will Support Enable Ventures’ Investment Strategy to Advance Human-Centered Design in Technology
Washington, D.C. – May 20, 2025 – Enable Ventures, the first impact venture fund dedicated to closing the disability wealth gap while achieving competitive, market-rate returns, and Liberty Mutual Investments (“LMI”), the investment firm for Liberty Mutual Group (“Liberty”), today announced a new strategic partnership. The partnership will allow Enable and LMI to collaborate on potential co-investment opportunities and will support Enable’s strategy focused on investing in the next generation of companies whose human-centered solutions will improve the lives of people with disabilities.
Enable Ventures invests in companies that are building technology and tools to upskill and reskill people with disabilities so they can enter the workforce, as well as improving work-related and assistive technologies to remove barriers in people’s lives. The firm also supports innovations built by entrepreneurs who have disabilities and individuals who are co-designing with them. The positive impact of this technology is supported by research from the National Center on Leadership for the Employment and Economic Advancement of People with Disabilities, which found that people with disabilities who are employed experience better health.
“Through this strategic partnership, Liberty Mutual Investments is demonstrating its pronounced commitment to the people and communities that Liberty Mutual Group serves, including those who are in need of inclusive technology solutions to improve their lives,” said Regina “Gina” Kline, Founder and Managing Partner of Enable Ventures. “As a global insurer, Liberty’s approach to building social impact through innovative strategic partnerships of this kind demonstrates its commitment to strengthening to global economy and support for the one in four Americans with a disability. We're delighted to be working together."
LMI aims to drive economic growth and build enduring businesses side-by-side with its partners. By engaging early with leading operators and investors, the firm identifies and nurtures high-value opportunities that can address complex global challenges and deliver long-term results. With knowledge and networks spanning more than 40 years of private market investing, LMI invests more than $100B of long-term capital globally across its integrated platform on behalf of Liberty.
“We are thrilled to partner with Enable Ventures and support their mission of improving the lives of people with disabilities,” said Ommeed Sathe, Head of Impact Investing at Liberty Mutual Investments. “We see an increased need for solutions that address this historically underserved and fast-growing market and provide a higher quality of life. We believe that our position as a flexible, long-term partner can help leading operators and investors like Enable scale across industries and create lasting value.”
Enable has a track record of investing in well-known companies across the worktech, edtech, neurotechnology, and AI industries. Its latest investment, Be My Eyes, is a leading AI-driven visual interpreter company that leverages computer vision and generative AI to audio describe the world to the blind and low vision (BLV) community. Be My Eyes has formal partnerships with notable organizations including Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta.
Additional portfolio highlights include:
Mindset Care – an AI-enabled enterprise modernizing the application process for Social Security Disability assistance services that caters to our country’s most economically vulnerable populations, including those with disabilities;
Inclusively – a workforce retention platform helping employers unlock the power of today’s workforce by opening doors to untapped talent;
CIONIC – a company building bionic clothing that can analyze and augment human movement, enabling the body to move with more freedom and control;
Daivergent – an online learning platform helping adults living with disabilities gain new skills to succeed at home, work, and life; and
Ava - a company providing live captioning solutions for Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, using AI to transcribe conversations in real-time, making communication more accessible.
About Enable Ventures
Enable Ventures is the first impact venture capital firm designed to the close the disability wealth gap through market rate investment. The company sources, attracts, and invests in world class inclusive tech impact deals with a focus on AI innovation, and partners with its portfolio companies to scale impact as they scale revenue. Enable Ventures is committed to demonstrating through its category-defining investment strategy, that disability tech has the potential to create measurable impact and financial alpha while changing the way technology is made from the outset. Founded and led by Regina “Gina” Kline, the investor, entrepreneur, and civil rights lawyer and supported by SmartJob, a platform to attract disability deal flow and support and build the disability innovation ecosystem, Enable Ventures is part of the Sorenson Impact Platform of Funds and is backed by world-renowned entrepreneur, business leader, and societal innovator Jim Sorenson and Sorenson Impact’s vast, world-class experience in impact and market-rate investment. For more information, please visit www.enableventures.vc.
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About Liberty Mutual Investments (LMI)
Liberty Mutual Investments (LMI) is the investment firm for Liberty Mutual Group (Liberty). With deep expertise in fixed income, equity, and alternative strategies, LMI invests more than $100B of long-term capital globally across its integrated platform. LMI has a clear purpose: drive economic growth, build enduring businesses side-by-side with our partners, and generate superior risk-adjusted returns that secure Liberty’s promises.
Liberty Mutual Group Asset Management Inc. does business under the name Liberty Mutual Investments.
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