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Foxen found the hole in the lease
A renters insurance requirement is only useful while someone is watching it. Foxen turned that overlooked chore into a business spanning damage waivers, credit building, and pet management.
Sure found its business behind the app
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.
The air filter that ate the lease
Second Nature began with two students trying to remember an air filter. Now it wants to choreograph the whole rental relationship - lease, insurance, internet, credit score and all.
Christopher Lotz Bet on the Boring Part of Fintech
A yacht underwriter crossed oceans, learned the machinery of risk, and came home to rebuild renters insurance around a plain idea: the customer should be on the same side as the company.
The Insurance Company That Started With a Bet on Farmers
A hunch about farmers in 1927 grew into a top-ten American insurer. Here is how American Family Insurance built a mutual empire on the promise to inspire, protect, and restore dreams.
Assurant
You may never shop for Assurant, yet it may already be standing behind your phone, car, apartment or mortgage. The $12.8 billion company has built a business out of everything that happens after the sale.
Goodcover
Goodcover is a San Francisco insurtech offering cooperative renters insurance built around a member-first model. Founded in 2017 and launched out of Y Combinator, it operates as a Managing General Agent that pools members' premiums, takes a fixed fee, pays claims, and returns leftover premium to members as an Annual Member Dividend. The pitch: renters insurance for roughly half the price of legacy carriers, with a fully digital sign-up, human support, and a structure that aligns the company's incentives with its members rather than with retaining unclaimed premium as profit.