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INSTANDA wants insurance out of the IT queue
The no-code insurance platform gives product teams the controls once reserved for developers. Its customers show what happens when changing a policy stops being a software project.
TIMBY Found a Business in the Stuff Traditional Insurance Leaves Moving
Cargo, cranes, warehouse inventory and oilfield gear live in the awkward gaps between standard policies. TIMBY built a specialty underwriting shop for those gaps - then sold it without giving up the name on the door.
W. R. Berkley Corporation
W. R. Berkley became one of America’s largest commercial insurers by building roughly 60 specialist businesses and letting them stay close to the risk. The center supplies capital; the edges supply judgment.
AIG
AIG spent years shrinking a sprawling financial empire into a sharper general insurer. Now it is betting that global reach, underwriting discipline and AI-assisted decisions can make a 107-year-old company faster without making risk feel simple.
The Hanover Insurance Group
The 174-year-old insurer has made a modern wager on an old-fashioned middleman: the independent agent. Behind that choice sits a broad coverage portfolio, specialized risk expertise and a business built to price the unexpected.
Slide
Slide became one of Florida's largest home insurers by doing the unfashionable work of pricing hurricane risk - then pairing old-school agents with a very modern data engine.
Taktile
Taktile is an AI decision platform for banks, insurers and fintechs. Its Agentic Decision Platform lets risk and engineering teams combine AI agents, business rules, third-party data and human oversight to automate high-stakes decisions - approving customers, underwriting credit, flagging fraud and processing claims - using low-code building blocks, 200+ data integrations, and built-in testing and monitoring. Founded in 2020 by Maik Taro Wehmeyer and Maximilian Eber, the company operates across New York, Berlin, London, Sao Paulo and Iasi, and raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives in June 2026.
Feathery
Feathery is a San Francisco software company that builds an AI operations platform for financial services. It started in 2021 as a developer-friendly, no-code form builder and has grown into a data intake and workflow automation platform that ingests, validates, and syncs client information across CRMs, custodians, and policy systems. Feathery pairs pixel-perfect forms and document generation with AI document intelligence, meeting and audio extraction, and collaborative approval workflows, targeting insurance carriers and brokers, wealth management firms, RIAs, and broker-dealers.