
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.
Cole Riccardi is the founder and CEO of Authentic, a New York based insurtech startup that lets software platforms and affinity groups launch their own branded insurance programs. A former investor at Aquiline Capital Partners and a Notre Dame finance graduate, he left the investing side of insurance in 2022 to build what he calls 'captive-in-a-box' - turnkey infrastructure that brings captive insurance, once reserved for large corporations, to gyms, restaurants, salons and other small businesses. Authentic has raised roughly $16 million, including an $11 million Series A led by FirstMark Capital.
Cyrus Karai is the Co-Founder and CEO of CoverForce, a New York-based insurtech building unified API infrastructure that connects insurance carriers, agencies, and wholesalers so commercial insurance can be quoted, paid, bound, and issued in real time. Originally from Australia and a Wharton MBA, he moved from finance roles at BlackRock, Credit Suisse, and PwC into founding CoverForce out of the University of Pennsylvania's Innovation Labs in 2020. Under his leadership the company reached over 9,600 producers nationwide, integrated with major carriers including Travelers, Chubb, Liberty Mutual, and AmTrust, and raised a $13M Series A led by Insight Partners in 2025.
Authentic is a New York insurtech building the infrastructure that lets software companies, franchisors, and associations launch their own insurance programs - so-called captives - for the small businesses they already serve. Its 'Captive in a Box' platform handles the parts that normally take years and a team of specialists: underwriting, rate filings, actuarial work, reinsurance, capitalization, regulatory compliance, and claims. Partners such as Mindbody, Restaurant365, PushPress, and theCut can embed tailored coverage for gyms, salons, restaurants, and other Main Street businesses through a single integration, while member businesses can share in the savings when claims run low.
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 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.
CoverForce is a New York-based insurtech building the digital infrastructure that connects commercial insurance carriers, agencies, and wholesalers. Its API marketplace and white-label platforms let brokers instantly quote, compare, pay, bind, and issue commercial policies - collapsing month-long, paper-based workflows into minutes across lines like workers' compensation, general liability, cyber, and business owner's policies. Backed by Insight Partners and Nyca Partners, the company supports thousands of agencies and integrates with national carriers including AmTrust, Chubb, Liberty Mutual, and Travelers.
CoverGo is a global enterprise insurtech that gives insurers, MGAs, and brokers a no-code, API-first platform to build, distribute, administer, and process insurance products across life, health, and P&C lines. Founded in Hong Kong in 2017 by Tomas Holub, it runs on 500+ open insurance APIs and a patented drag-and-drop product builder, letting carriers launch new products in hours rather than months and modernize legacy core systems without ripping them out. Customers include AXA, Bupa, MSIG, Dai-ichi Life, and Bank of China Group Insurance, served from offices across Silicon Valley, New York, Dubai, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
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 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.
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.
Healthee is an AI-powered health benefits platform that helps employees understand, navigate, and use their health insurance. Its virtual assistant, Zoe, answers plan-specific questions about coverage, providers, and costs in plain language across 50+ languages, while giving HR teams and brokers tools to cut administrative burden and healthcare spend. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York with R&D in Tel Aviv, Healthee serves 15,000+ customer organizations including Instacart, SiriusXM, and Celonis, and raised a $50M Series B in 2025.
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.
David Fontain is the co-founder and CEO of Foresight, a San Francisco insurtech that pairs workers' compensation coverage with its own safety technology, Safesite. An Australian who grew up on the Gold Coast and started out in investment banking, he built Foresight after a childhood friend died in a preventable workplace accident. The company underwrites for hard-to-place middle-market businesses in industries like construction and manufacturing, using an 'engage and save' model that rewards safer companies with faster premium relief. Foresight has raised tens of millions from investors including OMERS Ventures, and its technology is credited with cutting workplace incident frequency by double digits.
Jones is a New York-based vertical AI software company that automates insurance compliance for commercial real estate and construction. Its platform collects Certificates of Insurance (COIs), endorsements and policies, verifies coverage against requirements using AI agents, chases down gaps with vendors and tenants, and integrates bi-directionally with property and construction ERP systems. Founded in 2017 by Omri Stern and Michael Rudman, Jones manages insurance risk across roughly 2.7 billion square feet of properties and construction projects.
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.
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.
Players Health is a Minneapolis-based sports insurtech that combines a digital risk-management platform with tailored insurance products so youth, amateur and collegiate sports organizations can keep athletes safe and stay compliant. Founded in 2015 by former pro football player Tyrre Burks, the company pairs safety assessments, background checks, incident tracking and HIPAA-compliant education with sports-specific coverage. It supports more than 40,000 sports organizations and over 5.5 million athletes, and in December 2024 closed a $60 million Series C led by Bluestone Equity Partners.
Resilience is a New York-based cyber insurance and risk-management company that pairs A-plus rated coverage with software that translates cyber risk into financial terms. Founded in 2016 by veterans of the U.S. military and intelligence communities (originally as Arceo.ai), it operates as a managing general agent for middle-market and large enterprises, combining risk quantification, a Risk Operations Center, and in-house claims and incident response to help organizations see, price, and reduce their most financially damaging cyber exposures.
Sfara is a Hoboken, New Jersey-based mobility-safety software company that turns an ordinary smartphone into a crash-detection and emergency-response platform - no dedicated hardware required. Using patented on-device AI, its SDK detects vehicle collisions at any speed (including its 'ZeroMotion' capability for stationary vehicles) while a multi-layered suppression framework filters out false positives. Sfara sells a GDPR-compliant SaaS platform to insurance carriers, automotive OEMs, fleets, and mobile network operators, aiming to accelerate first-notification-of-loss (FNOL), speed emergency response, and modernize telematics.
Slice Labs is a New York-based insurtech that builds cloud-based, digital-first insurance products. Founded in 2015 by Tim Attia, Stuart Baserman and Ernest Hursh, Slice pioneered the first on-demand, pay-as-you-go insurance in the US and later opened its Insurance Cloud Services (ICS) platform so insurers, carriers and technology companies could launch their own digital products. Its Slice Mind engine applies machine learning and, more recently, large language models to underwriting, risk scoring and claims. Today Slice operates as a tech-driven provider of Excess & Surplus (E&S) insurance for small-to-midsize commercial businesses across 40+ US states.
Truvi (formerly Superhog) is a London-based technology company that helps vacation-rental property managers and hosts screen guests and protect their properties across every booking channel. Its platform combines ID verification and biometric checks, background and sex-offender screening, customizable damage protection of up to $1 million per booking, and a dedicated claims team - letting operators drop traditional security deposits while building trust between owners and guests. Founded in 2019 and led by CEO Humphrey Bowles, the company serves 800+ property managers globally and raised £5.5M in Series A funding in 2023.
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.
WithCoverage is a New York-based insurtech that replaces the traditional commission-based insurance broker with a flat-fee, AI-enabled risk management team. Its platform pairs licensed insurance experts, attorneys and claims specialists with an AI audit engine that scans policies and operations to find hidden exposures, run competitive carrier bidding, and cut premiums - routinely saving clients over $100,000 a year. Founded in 2023 by Opendoor co-founder JD Ross and Compound alumnus Max Brenner, the company has replaced brokers for 550+ fast-growing businesses including Gopuff, Bombas, Blank Street and Eight Sleep, and raised a $42M Series B in January 2026 co-led by Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures.
Wunderite is a Boston-based insurtech that builds digital forms and application-automation software for independent insurance agencies. Founded in 2018 by Peter MacDonald and Joe Schnare, the platform lets producers, account managers and insureds complete ACORDs, supplementals and PDFs up to 12x faster by mapping shared data across forms, autofilling applications, capturing digital signatures and integrating with agency management systems. Built by people who grew up in the family agency business, Wunderite aims to replace email-and-paper workflows with a mobile-friendly, data-driven process.
Yuzu Health is a New York-based healthtech company that rebuilds the administrative backbone of health insurance into a single, white-labeled system of record. Operating as a vertically integrated third-party administrator (TPA), Yuzu runs the behind-the-scenes engine for claims processing, payments, and member administration, letting insurers, brokers, and self-funded employers launch highly configurable plan designs - direct provider contracts, cash-pay options, and dynamic copays - without the heavy services burden of legacy administrators. Founded in 2022, the company works with customers across all 50 states and has processed more than $1 billion in claims payment volume.

Erik Goldman is the founder and CEO of Sfara, a Hoboken, New Jersey company that turns an ordinary smartphone into a safety and collision-detection platform using on-device AI and sensor data. A connected-vehicle pioneer, he co-founded Hughes Telematics in 2006, grew it to more than 1,000 employees and roughly $250M in revenue, and saw it acquired by Verizon in 2012, where he served as Group President of Verizon Telematics. At Sfara he is building AI that detects crashes at all speeds, suppresses false positives, and speeds emergency response and insurance claims for automakers, insurers, fleets and wireless carriers.
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.
Guy Benjamin is the CEO and co-founder of Healthee, a New York-based company that uses AI to help employees understand and use their health benefits. A former Israeli Air Force fighter pilot with a Yale MBA and a McKinsey background, he started Healthee in 2021 after struggling to navigate his own employer benefits in the US. The company has grown past 15,000 customers, counts Instacart, SiriusXM, and Celonis among its clients, and has raised $111 million in total funding, including a $50 million Series B in 2025.
Guy Ezekiel is the co-founder and CEO of Zorro, an AI-powered ICHRA benefits platform that helps employers replace one-size-fits-all group health plans with personalized, individual coverage. A 25-year healthcare operator turned venture investor, he spent much of his career building medical device and pharmaceutical companies before becoming a managing partner at Pitango, Israel's largest VC fund. He left investing to co-found Zorro in 2022 with Maya Perl, betting that Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements will do for health benefits what the 401(k) did for retirement. Zorro has raised $31.5 million to date, including a $20 million Series A in June 2025.