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Coverdash puts insurance where the work happens
A business rarely wakes up wanting insurance. Coverdash places it inside the tools owners already use, turning an inconvenient errand into part of getting the job done.
Travis Hedge Built an Insurance Carrier. Then He Changed His Mind.
The Vouch co-founder spent years arguing that startup insurance needed a new carrier. A consequential decision was admitting the market had changed - and rebuilding the company around a different answer.
Gideon Dushku Is Learning to Sell the Invisible
Before startup insurance, there were fantasy maps, cut-out mountains and a six-foot papier-mâché arch. The same instinct runs through Gideon Dushku’s work now: make an abstract thing visible, useful and memorable.
upcover
upcover is a Sydney-based insurtech turning slow, paperwork-heavy commercial insurance into an instant, digital experience for Australian small businesses, startups and scaleups. Its platform lets a business get a quote by answering as few as two questions, buy cover, receive a certificate of currency instantly and even finance the premium in one click. Through insurance APIs and white-labelled journeys, upcover also lets other brands and platforms embed business insurance directly into their own products. Founded in 2019 and led by co-founder and CEO Skye Theodorou, the company works with around 40 insurers and serves roughly 60,000 businesses.
Sam Hodges
Sam Hodges is co-founder and CEO of Vouch Insurance, a tech-enabled insurance platform built specifically for high-growth startups and venture-backed companies. A serial fintech entrepreneur with 20+ years at the intersection of technology and financial services, Hodges previously co-founded and led the U.S. operations of Funding Circle to a 2018 London Stock Exchange IPO. He holds an MBA and MS from Stanford and a magna cum laude degree from Brown University, and is a Fellow of the inaugural Finance Leaders Fellowship at the Aspen Institute. Under his leadership, Vouch has raised over $229M in total funding, serves 6,000+ companies, and completed a Series D round in early 2025 alongside its acquisition of StartSure Insurance Services.
Vouch Insurance
Vouch is a technology-first business insurance broker built specifically for high-growth startups. Founded in 2018 by Sam Hodges and Travis Hedge, it engineers coverage - D&O, cyber, E&O, general liability and more - for venture-backed companies, with digital quoting, claims advocacy, and a growing carrier network. Backed by Ribbit, Index, Y Combinator, Allegis and others, Vouch insures thousands of startups including Brex, Carta, Ramp, and Middesk.
Corgi
Corgi is an AI-native, full-stack insurance carrier built specifically for technology startups. Founded in 2024 by Nico Laqua and Emily Yuan through Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch, Corgi owns its own carrier (Technology Risk Retention Group), enabling it to underwrite, price, and bind policies in minutes rather than the industry-standard weeks. The company offers coverage including general liability, directors & officers, cyber, tech E&O, and AI liability — directly tailored to how startups actually operate. With 40,000+ customers across 49 U.S. states, $40M+ ARR, and $268M raised at a $1.3B valuation as of May 2026, Corgi became Y Combinator's latest unicorn just 18 months after its founding.