An insurance agency built a better way to collect premiums. Its customers wanted the machinery - and SmartPay found a business in making the bill keep up with payroll.
The insurance app was the opening act. The machinery behind it became a business that lets familiar brands sell protection without building an insurance platform from scratch.
An approved claim can still leave a policyholder waiting for cash. Vitesse is rebuilding the funding and payment machinery behind insurance, one crowded chain of accounts at a time.
The Folsom fintech started by trying to rebuild insurance software. Its sharper idea was hiding in plain sight: make money move cleanly through the industry’s messiest workflows.
Input 1 began with a teenager, a programming book and a family insurance business. Four decades later, its unglamorous specialty - helping insurance companies collect, reconcile and finance premiums - offers a useful playbook for building durable vertical software.
ConnexPay is a Plano, Texas payments-technology company that unifies the two traditionally separate halves of the payment process - accepting customer payments (PayIns) and issuing supplier payments via virtual cards (PayOuts) - into one platform, one contract and one reconciliation. Founded in 2017 by former U.S. Bank payments executive Bob Kaufman, it lets travel agencies, marketplaces, insurers and other 'high-risk' merchants use incoming card revenue to instantly fund outbound supplier payments, removing the need for pre-funded accounts and reducing risk while capturing card rebates.