eFinancial spent 25 years turning a paperwork-heavy purchase into a guided online-and-phone experience. Its quiet advantage is not removing the agent, but giving the agent better tools.
A Singapore insurtech quietly turned the checkout button into an insurance counter. Now 230 insurers and 700 partners run through its pipes.
PolicyStreet is a Malaysia-based, full-stack insurtech group that makes insurance simpler and more accessible across Southeast Asia and Australia. Founded in 2016 and operating under holding company Polisea, it works with more than 40 life, general and Takaful providers to deliver embedded insurance, employee benefits, gig-worker protection, financial advisory and an online insurance marketplace through B2B, B2B2C and direct-to-consumer channels. Backed by Khazanah Nasional, Cool Japan Fund and others, it has grown to serve over 10 million customers and turned profitable in 2025.
upcover is a Sydney-based insurtech turning slow, paperwork-heavy commercial insurance into an instant, digital experience for Australian small businesses, startups and scaleups. Its platform lets a business get a quote by answering as few as two questions, buy cover, receive a certificate of currency instantly and even finance the premium in one click. Through insurance APIs and white-labelled journeys, upcover also lets other brands and platforms embed business insurance directly into their own products. Founded in 2019 and led by co-founder and CEO Skye Theodorou, the company works with around 40 insurers and serves roughly 60,000 businesses.