Breaking: CoverForce raises $13M Series A led by Insight Partners 20+ carriers integrated including Chubb, Travelers, Liberty Mutual & AmTrust 9,600+ producers on platform $500M+ in gross quoted premium AI document reading at 95%+ accuracy 11,000+ hours saved every month Breaking: CoverForce raises $13M Series A led by Insight Partners 20+ carriers integrated including Chubb, Travelers, Liberty Mutual & AmTrust 9,600+ producers on platform $500M+ in gross quoted premium AI document reading at 95%+ accuracy 11,000+ hours saved every month
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CoverForce

The infrastructure platform wiring commercial insurance - one API that lets agencies quote, pay, bind, and issue policies with carriers in minutes, not months.

$18MTotal Raised
15,000+Agencies
20+Carriers
2021Founded
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CoverForce Inc. — 485 Madison Avenue, Midtown Manhattan. The API marketplace for commercial lines, photographed here as its wordmark.
The Dispatch

Rebuilding the plumbing of a $960 billion market

Commercial insurance is one of the largest markets in the American economy - more than $960 billion in annual written premiums - and much of it still moves the way it did decades ago: emailed PDFs, retyped applications, carrier portals opened one browser tab at a time, and quotes that can take weeks to assemble. CoverForce, a New York insurtech founded in 2021, set out to replace that friction with a single digital rail.

The company builds the infrastructure and connectivity between insurance carriers and the agencies, brokers, and wholesalers who distribute their products. Through one platform and one API, a producer can generate, compare, and bind commercial policies - workers' compensation, general liability, business owner's policies, cyber, and more - across a growing network of national carriers. What used to be a month-long process, the company says, becomes a matter of minutes.

It is unglamorous work by design. CoverForce is not a consumer app; it is the layer underneath, the connective tissue that lets the rest of the industry move faster. That focus on infrastructure, rather than a flashy front end, is precisely what drew a $13 million Series A from Insight Partners in March 2025.

$960BMarket it targets
9,600+Producers served
$500M+Gross quoted premium
11,000+Hours saved / month
The Problem & The Fix

Why brokers were drowning in busywork

Selling a commercial policy has long meant doing the same tedious work over and over for every carrier. CoverForce collapses that into a single submission.

The old way

  • Log into a different portal for each carrier
  • Rekey the same client data again and again
  • Wait days or weeks for quotes to come back
  • Chase paperwork across email and PDFs
  • No single view to compare markets

The CoverForce way

  • One submission fans out to 20+ carriers
  • Enter risk data once, reuse everywhere
  • Quote, compare, pay, bind, and issue in minutes
  • AI reads documents at 95%+ accuracy
  • A unified marketplace to compare markets side by side
Products & Services

One platform, three ways to plug in

CoverForce meets customers where they are - a full white-label platform, a headless API for developers, or AI modules layered on top.

01

Headless API

A standalone, unified API that lets developers, insurtechs, banks, and PEOs generate, compare, and bind commercial quotes across every integrated carrier.

Launched 2023
02

Agent & Agency Platform

White-label software for brokers and agencies to quote, compare, and bind multiple commercial lines from a single interface.

Launched 2023
03

Network & Wholesaler Platform

Tools for agency networks and wholesalers to manage carrier panels, control access, and route submissions across member agencies.

Launched 2023
04

Carrier Platform

Software that lets carriers digitize distribution and expose quote-and-bind capabilities to their agency channels.

Launched 2023
05

AI Modules

Document reading at 95%+ accuracy, submission automation, and accelerated carrier integrations - saving 11,000+ hours a month.

Expanded 2025

We've built strong relationships with our customers, and they trust us to solve real pain points. Our team has a track record of executing at a high level.

— Cyrus Karai, Co-Founder & CEO
Who Uses It & How It Earns

Built for the whole distribution chain

CoverForce serves the full spread of commercial insurance distribution: brokers and agencies, agency networks, wholesalers, insurtechs and developers, banks, PEOs, and agency management systems. The platform supports more than 9,600 producers and 15,000+ agencies nationwide, with over $500 million in gross quoted premium flowing through it.

The business is B2B software and API infrastructure. CoverForce monetizes access to its carrier-connected marketplace through platform subscriptions, white-label licensing, and usage-based API integrations for enterprise carriers. Revenue scales with the volume of quote-and-bind transactions and premium moving across the network. Notably, the company reached seven figures in sales with minimal marketing spend - a sign the product was solving a problem customers were actively hunting for.

brokersagenciesagency networks wholesalersinsurtechsbanks peosdeveloperscarriers
Funding

$18.05M raised across two rounds

A 2023 seed set the foundation; the 2025 Series A funds carrier expansion and AI.

Seed · Nov 2023 · led by Nyca Partners$5.0M
$5M
Series A · Mar 2025 · led by Insight Partners$13.0M
$13M

Series A investors: Insight Partners (lead), Nyca Partners, Gaingels, Sidekick. Seed investors also included QED Investors, Muir Capital, and Moving Capital.

The Founders

Insurance depth meets big-tech engineering

Three co-founders pairing carrier-side operating experience with software built at scale.

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Cyrus Karai

Co-Founder & CEO

Leads strategy and go-to-market, and is the public face of the company's push to modernize commercial insurance distribution.

KW

Kaivan Wadia

Co-Founder & CTO

Former software development manager at Amazon, responsible for the engineering behind CoverForce's API and platform.

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Behram Dinshaw

Co-Founder & Chairman

Former EVP of global small and middle market business centers at Travelers, bringing deep carrier-side insurance expertise.

Timeline

From founding to Series A

2021

CoverForce is founded in New York

Cyrus Karai, Kaivan Wadia, and Behram Dinshaw set out to modernize commercial insurance distribution.

2023

$5M seed and product suite launch

Nyca Partners leads a $5M seed as CoverForce launches its commercial insurance API and platform suite.

2024

Carrier network and agency base expand

The platform grows its carrier integrations and adds thousands of producers and agencies.

2025

$13M Series A led by Insight Partners

CoverForce raises Series A funding and rolls out AI modules for documents, submissions, and integrations.

Where It Fits

The infrastructure lane of insurtech

CoverForce sits in the infrastructure and connectivity corner of insurtech, alongside quote-and-bind platforms like Bold Penguin, Semsee, Tarmika, Ascend, and Herald - and against the legacy carrier portals and agency-management-system integrations it aims to replace. Its edge is breadth of carrier connectivity paired with flexible deployment: the same rails power a full white-label platform, a headless API, and enterprise custom builds.

The founders' backgrounds reinforce the position. A former Travelers executive understands exactly where the industry's workflows break, while an ex-Amazon engineer knows how to build software that scales. That combination - domain trust plus engineering discipline - is hard for either a pure-tech startup or a legacy carrier to replicate. CoverForce is also SOC 2 compliant, a table-stakes requirement for handling insurance data at scale.

FAQ

Quick answers

What does CoverForce do?
CoverForce provides digital infrastructure for commercial insurance - an API marketplace and white-label platforms that let agencies, wholesalers, and carriers instantly quote, compare, pay, bind, and issue policies.
Who founded CoverForce and where is it based?
It was co-founded by Cyrus Karai (CEO), Kaivan Wadia (CTO), and Behram Dinshaw (Chairman), and is headquartered in New York City.
How much funding has CoverForce raised?
About $18.05M total: a $5M seed in 2023 led by Nyca Partners and a $13M Series A in 2025 led by Insight Partners.
Which carriers and lines does CoverForce support?
It integrates 20+ carriers including AmTrust, Chubb, Liberty Mutual, and Travelers, across lines like workers' compensation, general liability, business owner's policies, and cyber.
Who are CoverForce's customers?
Brokers and agencies, agency networks, wholesalers, insurtechs and developers, banks, and PEOs - supporting 9,600+ producers and 15,000+ agencies nationwide.
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