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Hideo Esaka Sells the Data That Runs Every Car You Never Think About
He trained in physics and psychology, then spent 25 years learning to explain complicated software to the people who buy it. At Solera, the product is the data quietly steering the auto and insurance industries.
The Insurance Giant Hiding Behind the Repair Bill
AmTrust built an $8.8 billion premium engine by insuring the businesses and breakdowns bigger carriers can overlook. Its next policy is being written in software, claims data and a network of specialist partners.
Hexaware Technologies
How a spin-off from an Indian computer-training business became a 32,000-person, AI-first services firm - and pulled off the biggest technology-services IPO in over a decade.
Neutrinos
The Singapore startup betting that insurers do not need to replace their aging core systems - they need software smart enough to work around them.
The Hartford
The Hartford has spent 216 years learning how America breaks, rebuilds and gets back to work. Its next act is narrower, more digital and still built around an old-fashioned promise: price risk before trouble arrives, then show up when it does.
Solera Holdings, LLC.
Solera sits behind the moments when a car is claimed, repaired, sold, tracked, or returned to the road. Its advantage is not one famous app, but a deep reservoir of vehicle data wired into the daily work of insurers, shops, dealers, and fleets.
MetLife
The 158-year-old insurer is becoming a three-engine financial platform: workplace benefits, retirement-risk transfer and global asset management - all hidden behind one familiar blue-and-green M.
Coforge
The former NIIT Technologies spent years learning the machinery of airlines, banks and insurers. Now, with 45,000-plus people and an expanding stack of AI platforms, Coforge is trying to turn that institutional memory into software that can act.
The Baldwin Group
The Tampa firm grew from a Florida brokerage into a $1.5 billion national platform. Its next act is less about selling policies than connecting advice, underwriting, embedded distribution and AI into one insurance operating system.
Oscar Health
Oscar Health began with a friendly app and an unfriendly problem: American health insurance. Fourteen years later, its bigger bet is that the individual market can become the operating system for how people buy care.
EXL
EXL spent a quarter-century learning the unglamorous machinery of claims, payments and customer service. Now it is using that operational memory to turn enterprise AI from a promising demo into work that survives contact with the real world.
Travelers
Travelers sells a familiar promise under a red umbrella. Behind it sits a 170-year experiment in pricing uncertainty - powered by agents, engineers, claims professionals, data and, increasingly, an insurance-trained language model.
Customer Communications Software Has an Identity Crisis
Six vendors promise better customer conversations, but they solve very different problems. The useful question is not which platform wins - it is where your communication actually breaks.
GhostDraft Turns Insurance Paperwork Into Two-Day Work
Born in 1984 as one of the first document composition engines, GhostDraft now runs the whole insurance communications lifecycle for 150+ carriers - letting business teams ship compliant policies, claims and letters without waiting on IT.
GhostDraft
Simplify every step of your insurance communications, from policy language creation to document delivery, in one powerful platform.
Compart
Your Customer Communications. Visibility into Every Step. Control over Every Process.
bolttech
A Singapore insurtech quietly turned the checkout button into an insurance counter. Now 230 insurers and 700 partners run through its pipes.
Peak3
Peak3 (formerly ZA Tech) is a Singapore-headquartered insurtech that builds cloud-native, AI-ready core software for the insurance industry. Its modular platform - spanning policy administration, distribution, claims and orchestration - lets insurers, MGAs and brokers launch and run life, health and property & casualty products across many markets. Founded in 2018 out of Chinese insurtech ZhongAn and rebranded to Peak3 in 2024 alongside a US$35M Series A led by EQT, the company powers global insurers such as AIA, Generali, Prudential and Zurich, and embedded-insurance programs for digital platforms including Grab, Klook, Lazada and PayPay. Its software has supported over a billion policies across 20-plus countries.
Trevor Gary
Trevor Gary is the founder and CEO of Micruity, a retirement-income infrastructure company that connects 401(k) recordkeepers, asset managers and insurers so plans can offer annuities and pension-style lifetime income. A former pension actuary at Deloitte Canada, Gary saw firsthand how the shift from defined-benefit pensions to 401(k) plans left millions of Americans without guaranteed income in retirement. He founded Micruity in 2017-2018 to build the data conduit that makes lifetime-income products work at scale. The company has raised roughly $27 million from a roster of insurance and financial heavyweights including Prudential, TIAA, State Street, Nationwide, J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Pacific Life.
Dan Woods
Dan Woods is the Founder and CEO of Socotra, the AI-native cloud-native insurance core platform he built from scratch starting in 2014. A Stanford AI researcher and former Palantir engineer (employee #20), he left the data-intelligence world to fix insurance technology - an industry he describes as 'a decade behind banking.' Under his leadership, Socotra has raised $87M+ in total funding including a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners, and powers carriers and insurtech MGAs who can now launch insurance products in weeks instead of years.
Bestow
Bestow is a Dallas-based insurtech company that provides life and annuity carriers with a vertically integrated technology platform. It powers digital quoting and applications, automated underwriting, policy administration and self-service portals through modular, API-based software, letting insurers such as Nationwide, Transamerica, USAA and Sammons Financial Group modernize product development and operations. After divesting its own consumer carrier in 2024, Bestow now operates as a pure business-to-business software provider and raised a $120 million Series D in May 2025.
Briza
Briza is a Toronto-based insurtech that started as a unified, API-first platform for small-business commercial insurance - letting agencies, brokers and software platforms quote, bind and pay for policies like BOP, GL, WC and cyber through a single integration. Founded in 2016, the company has since narrowed its focus to carrier API reliability, applying manufacturing-style engineering discipline to reduce failed submissions and slow integrations that cost carriers premium.
EasySend
EasySend is an Israeli enterprise software company whose no-code, AI-assisted platform turns paper-based forms and PDFs into digital customer journeys. Insurers, banks and other regulated enterprises use it to build onboarding, claims, lending and renewal workflows - complete with data intake, document generation and legally binding eSignatures - without writing code. Founded in 2016 in Tel Aviv, the company serves more than 40 enterprise customers, has raised roughly $77M in total funding, and is used across most of Israel's financial and insurance market as well as clients in the US, Europe and Japan.
Equal Parts
Equal Parts is an Austin-based insurance company that acquires established independent insurance agencies and equips them with shared infrastructure and AI-driven automation. Founded in March 2025 by Mike Witte, Graham Yennie and Mike Meller, it positions itself as a growth network - preserving each agency's identity and local relationships while standardizing back-office workflows so agents can focus on clients. The company raised a $23M Series A led by Inspired Capital in February 2026 and aims to become a top-5 insurance distributor by acquiring 25 agencies in 2026 and reaching $1B in premiums.
Hi Marley
Hi Marley is a Boston-based insurtech that builds an intelligent conversational platform for property and casualty insurance, powered by SMS text messaging. It lets carriers, policyholders, agents and service providers communicate over a single, familiar text thread during claims and service moments, layering in AI features such as sentiment analysis, real-time translation, coaching insights and workflow automation. Founded in 2017 by insurance-industry veterans, the company works with 130-plus carriers, including several of the largest US insurers, aiming to make insurance communication simpler and to reduce call volume and claims cycle times.
Ledgebrook
Ledgebrook is a tech-enabled excess and surplus (E&S) lines managing general agent (MGA) that aims to give wholesale insurance brokers the fastest, easiest quoting experience. Founded in 2021 by former actuary Gage Caligaris, the company pairs a next-generation tech stack - which enriches and prefills broker submissions and speeds rating - with experienced human underwriters to write specialty commercial coverages such as general liability, excess liability, professional liability, allied healthcare, and architects & engineers. Having written its first policy in May 2023, Ledgebrook passed a $100M premium run rate and closed an oversubscribed $65M Series C in June 2025, bringing total funding to roughly $119M.
N5 Now
N5 Now is a Buenos Aires-founded software company built specifically for the financial industry. Its 'systematics' platform - along with AI products AIfred, Pep and Singular - lets banks, insurers and payment companies connect CRM, campaigns, analytics, compliance and omnichannel operations on top of existing legacy systems instead of replacing them. Founded in 2017 by former Santander executive Julian Colombo, N5 works fully remotely across teams in dozens of cities, serves clients including Santander, Mastercard, Itau, Interbank and Zurich in roughly 15-18 countries, and closed a $20M Series A in 2025 to accelerate its AI agents for banks.
Pasito
Pasito is a New York-based AI company building an AI-native workspace for group health, life, and retirement benefits. Founded in 2021 by Pauline Roteta, Ignacio Ampuero, and Julie Scotland, and backed by Y Combinator, the platform ingests unstructured plan documents and employee census data into a unified data layer, then deploys engagement AI agents to automate benefits work across sales, quoting, marketing, enrollment, support, and claims. Pasito serves carriers, brokerages, and consultants including New York Life, Reliance Matrix, OneDigital, and Daybright Financial. In February 2026 it raised a $21 million Series A led by Insight Partners.
Westhill
Westhill is an Atlanta-based insurtech company that runs a fully-digital managed repair platform for the property and casualty insurance industry. It connects homeowners, insurance carriers, and a vetted network of contractors in one workflow - handling contractor matching, estimates, approvals, and real-time project tracking - to make repairs after a property loss faster, more transparent, and less costly for carriers. Founded in 2017 and led by CEO Kevin Reilley, the company targets the roughly $50 billion U.S. managed repair market.
Gage Caligaris
Gage Caligaris is the founder and CEO of Ledgebrook, a tech-enabled managing general agent (MGA) modernizing the Excess and Surplus (E&S) specialty insurance market. A Harvard-trained applied mathematician and former Barclays commodity derivatives trader, he spent eight-plus years as an actuary at Liberty Mutual, where he became the fastest person ever to pass the Casualty Actuarial exams and later scaled a new-mobility products line from under $50M to over $450M in gross written premium. He founded Ledgebrook in 2022 to pair modern engineering with deep insurance expertise, reaching a $100M run rate in under two years and raising an oversubscribed $65M Series C in 2025. In 2026 he was named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year New England Award winner.