# Foresight

> Foresight is a San Francisco-based commercial insurtech that ties safe work practices to insurance savings. It writes workers' compensation coverage for hard-to-place middle-market businesses in industries like construction, manufacturing, agriculture and landscaping, bundling its Safesite safety platform, virtual safety coaching and AI-informed underwriting into every policy to prevent injuries, reduce claims and lower rates.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** David Fontain (Co-founder & CEO), Peter Grant (Co-founder (civil engineer, safety systems))
- **Team size:** 53 employees
- **Products:** Workers' Compensation Insurance, Safesite Safety Platform, Virtual Safety Coaching, AI-Powered Underwriting
- **Notable:** Named a Celent 2025 Model Insurer for Digital and Emerging Technologies, Reduced workplace incident frequency by an average of 31% for policyholders, Safesite reduces claims frequency by 17% on average

## Products & services

- **Workers' Compensation Insurance** — Workers' comp coverage built for agents and the hard-to-place middle market, with rates tied to demonstrated safe work practices.
- **Safesite Safety Platform** — Award-winning safety app for incident reporting, hazard management, inspections and a real-time safety performance score, bundled into every policy.
- **Virtual Safety Coaching** — Human-centered virtual safety consulting and coaching included with coverage to drive down incident frequency.
- **AI-Powered Underwriting** — Proprietary AI/ML models for hazard identification and data-informed underwriting that speed decisions and price risk on real safety data.

## Achievements

- Named a Celent 2025 Model Insurer for Digital and Emerging Technologies
- Reduced workplace incident frequency by an average of 31% for policyholders
- Safesite reduces claims frequency by 17% on average
- Closed a $39M Series B, bringing total funding to $74.5M
- First insurtech to specialize in commercial coverage for the hard-to-place middle market
- Secured a paper partnership with QBE North America

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Named one of Celent's 2025 Model Insurers for Digital and Emerging Technologies.
- **2023-11** — Partnership with QBE North America goes live; Foresight writes on select QBE entities' paper.
- **2022-01** — Closed $39M Series B led by OMERS Ventures, total funding reaching $74.5M.
- **2020-10** — Wrote its first workers' compensation policy.

## Links

- Website: https://getforesight.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getforesight
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Foresight_ins
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/ForesightCommercialInsurance

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Last updated: 2026-07-21