Plug and Play is a seed and early-stage investor focused on great teams leading emerging growth companies.  Plug and Play runs 12 industry-specific accelerator programs twice a year, that acts as a platform for major corporations and high quality startups to connect and collaborate.  Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Plug and Play participates in Seed, Angel and Series A funding where they often co-invest with their strategic partners. Through years of experience and as part of their network, Plug and Play has put together a world-class network of serial entrepreneurs, strategic investors, and industry leaders who actively assist the firm with its successful and growing investment portfolio.  SEED ROUND. Plug and Play participates in seed round investing through a program called Startup Camp. Startup Camp is a 10-week program based in Silicon Valley for top-notch entrepreneurs to work intensively on building out their business model. Select startups will refine their business models and prototypes with help from a combination of structured workshops, speaker series and mentorship sessions, as well as active coaching from their investment team. At the culmination of Startup Camp, founders will have crystalized their business plans and pitched their company to the venture capital community at EXPO Demo Day.''  ANGEL ROUND Plug and Play makes angel round investments throughout the year, sourced from their monthly Plug and Play Angels (PAPA) sessions. They are partnered with local angel investors in Silicon Valley who participate in PAPA to find the most promising startups and best new technologies.  SERIES A. Series A typical Series A round is in the range of $2 million to $10 million, and is intended to provide operating capital for the company for six months to two years. This round capitalizes the company as it develops its products, performs initial marketing and branding, acquires talent, and conducts other early-stage business operations. It is in this stage that Plug and Play will co-invest with over 180 venture capital partners.  Plug and Play has helped grow market leaders such as PayPal, Danger, Google, DropBox, LendingClub, Zoosk, SoundHound, CreditSesame, Skytree, and has over 400 more early-stage startups in its portfolio.

Plug and Play

Think + is a research-driven and thesis-based early stage venture firm.  We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs and help them with guidance, support and our proprietary research.  Our investments include Tubi.tv, ApplyBoard, Uber, Qventus, Angellist, Signifyd, PayJoy, and many other game-changing companies.  We focus on digital health, consumer, and leading edge enterprise solutions. We look for entrepreneurs who are driven to disrupt an old, inefficient system, and are focused on large markets that target millions of people.  We help our portfolio companies  to focus on design, accessibility, and efficiency of their platform.

Think + Ventures

ManchesterStory Group is an early-to-growth stage venture capital firm focused on InsurTech, FinTech, and HealthTech sector. It was founded by Dave Miles and Matt Kinley in 2017 and is based in West Des Moines, Iowa, United States.

ManchesterStory Group

UpHonest Capital is an early-stage, industry-agnostic venture capital firm that partners with companies from pre-seed stage to Series A. The firm invests in entrepreneurs and early-stage startups and then uses its resources to boost value creation through disruptive means.

UpHonest Capital

Recursive Ventures is a San Francisco based Micro VC fund investing in US and Israeli Pre-seed and Seed Tech Startups disrupting industries through use of Data and Artificial Intelligence. Recursive is a Solo Capitalist fund managed by Itamar Novick with support from a seasoned group of Founders, Operators, and go-to-market experts. We are founders ourselves and partner with you to build momentum and find smart capital to scale your business. As a Solo Capitalist – a VC operating like an Angel – we make decision in days, not weeks, and dedicate our time to support founders.

Recursive Ventures

INP Capital is a boutique investment firm headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with global teams in Canada, Australia, China, and Singapore. We focus on private equity with the goal to invest in talents and technologies that shape tomorrow. Utilizing our strength in global network and insights, we immerse ourselves in local innovation ecosystems to discover, and become a partner of great entrepreneurs for exponential value creation. The core management team brings deep, diverse, and complementary experiences in corporate finance, governance, capital markets and VC/PE investing globally underpinned by operational excellence. Invest in evolution, emerge with greatness. Through our in-depth understanding of the industry developments globally and active participation in the local technology startup ecosystem, we combine top-down research that identifies industries at the verge of explosive growth and bottom-up screening to discover and invest in companies with the most potential to grow into unicorns. Current focused areas including Future of Energy (Critical minerals & Resources, Alternative fuel commercial vehicles, smart transportation, green logistics etc.), ESG-theme disruptive technology (Foodtech, Cleantech, EnviroTech etc), Metaverse (digital and intelligent connection and augmentation of physical world), Space technology and 2B services that consolidate and automate a large but fragmented industry that has low digitization level (e.g Supply chain / logistics, Insurance, etc.). Our investments are in early stages (Seed to Series A) and late stages (business growth/scale-up or clear set IPO timetable). Geographically we invest in North America, Australasia, South East Asia and Greater China.

INP Capital

Markd is a venture capital company focused on funding and partnering with transformative Insurtechs.

Markd

Benhamou Global Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. The firm works with passion and commitment to building valuable companies. It places particular emphasis on cloud technologies; virtual and software-defined networking; productivity-based applications; cybersecurity, mobility, and the Internet of Things. In 2004, Eric Benhamou founded the firm in Palo Alto, California.

Benhamou Global Ventures

COVU

Founded and advised by a team of world-renowned insurance, finance, and technology industry veterans with a passion for transparent and unbiased advice, COVU's mission is to help everyday people and growth-oriented insurance professionals reduce risk and manage insurance smarter. COVU’s holistic approach ensures agencies thrive by managing the business side of insurance operations to provide an extraordinary customer experience through a unique combination of AI technology, human intelligence, real-time service, and top-tier sales support.

COVU is an AI-enabled operations outsourcing platform specifically designed for insurance agencies. The company offers various services, including a comprehensive technology suite, licensed staff support, market access expansion, growth consultation, and assistance with upselling and cross-selling opportunities. COVU also supports agencies looking to acquire other agencies or sell their own. Their platform is designed to serve insurance agencies of various sizes, lines of business, and locations across the US, aiming to help agencies improve their operations while maintaining their autonomy.

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COVU is an AI-enabled digital platform for insurance agencies launched in 2022. The company offers a comprehensive solution that combines AI technology, human intelligence, and business services to help independent insurance agents and carriers manage risk and make smarter insurance decisions. COVU's platform takes ownership of front and back-office tasks, allowing insurance agents to focus on strengthening customer relationships and growing their business. The company's AI-driven technology provides policy recommendations, streamlines operations, and enhances customer service.
COVU's platform aims to address major challenges faced by independent insurance agencies, such as the significant time and resources spent on administrative tasks. The company's technology automates routine processes, including document handling and customer segmentation, potentially reducing customer service costs by up to 30%. COVU's approach combines mobile self-service with on-demand professional assistance, creating an improved customer journey while maintaining the agency's branding and carrier relationships.
The platform utilizes generative AI tools, such as those built by OpenAI, to further streamline operations and uncover sales opportunities. COVU's technology allows agents to make data-driven decisions based on real-time information and analysis, potentially boosting targeted marketing efforts and cross-selling opportunities.

COVU is an AI-enabled operations outsourcing platform specifically designed for insurance agencies. The company offers various services, including a comprehensive technology suite, licensed staff support, market access expansion, growth consultation, and assistance with upselling and cross-selling opportunities. COVU also supports agencies looking to acquire other agencies or sell their own. Their platform is designed to serve insurance agencies of various sizes, lines of business, and locations across the US, aiming to help agencies improve their operations while maintaining their autonomy.COVU offers an integrated platform that encompasses multiple aspects of insurance agency operations. Its system combines customer relationship management (CRM), an agency management system (AMS), a customer portal, and an advisor portal into a unified solution. This comprehensive platform handles various functions, including policy management, claims processing, lead management, and data analytics. The platform's benefits included potential time savings on routine tasks, improved customer retention through personalized service, and the ability for agencies to focus on higher-value activities while maintaining control over their business operations.

AgentSync develops modern insurance infrastructure solutions that automate and streamline compliance and producer management processes for insurance carriers, agencies, and MGAs. The company's core product offerings include AgentSync Manage, Autopilot, and ProducerSync API, which help validate licensing, appointing, and personal information for insurance producers by connecting with the National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR). In January 2024, AgentSync launched its first commercially available ProducerSync API, which allows insurance businesses to access and validate NIPR data through REST API architecture. The company's technology reduces manual data entry processes from hours to minutes by using APIs and cloud-native solutions. In 2021, AgentSync acquired Finvera and subsequently acquired eContractPro in 2022. As of December 2021, the company generated annual revenue of USD 29.3 million.
Key customers and partnerships
AgentSync has established strategic partnerships with several industry leaders including the National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR), Salesforce, Varicent, DocuSign, Verified First, Accurate, and LIMRA LOMA. Veterans United Insurance is among the company's notable customers. The company's platform enables its customers to onboard producers in hours instead of the traditional timeframe of weeks or months.

AgentSync

Artificial is an insurance software business offering an algorithmic underwriting, data extraction and machine learning platform to commercial insurers, empowering them to write better risks, faster. We provide solutions to partners across the London and global markets, including Convex, Chaucer and more. Our platform specialises in instantly and accurately capturing data at the point of entry for use in downstream applications. We enable clients to augment this data through effortless integrations and use it to write risks algorithmically, build contracts and plug into other systems. Behind the platform is decades' worth of experience in engineering, insurance and analysis. We do more than just provide software; we work with you every step of the journey to make sure our technology drives growth, improves efficiency and reduces costs across your business.

Artificial Labs

Bambi Dynamic developed a white-label mobility platform for the insurance sector. Their technology generated personalized, usage-based insurance options for the mobility sector, with the platform calculating premiums based on individual user data including driver safety scores, on-demand activation/deactivation, and time or distance driven. The system accounted for occasional drivers and multi-use vehicles, and was designed to integrate with IT systems of insurance companies, OEMs, and Mobility-as-a-Service providers such as ridesharing, ride-hailing, carsharing, e-scooters, and delivery services. The company operated between 2017 and 2023, ultimately ceasing operations in March 2023.
Key customers and partnerships
The company partnered with The Phoenix Insurance Company in Israel to launch 'The Phoenix Drive', a pay-as-you-go private vehicle insurance product. This offering included a web/mobile onboarding sales and underwriting portal for direct customers and insurance agents, back-office interfaces for insurers, and a consumer mobile app. Through this partnership, Bambi Dynamic was also involved in running the InsureMyTesla program in Israel.

Bambi Dynamic

CLARA Analytics offers an AI-powered insurance claims platform, aimed at improving claims outcomes. Its core claims platform is called CLARAty.ai, which includes generative and predictive AI models developed specifically for casualty claims. Its platform includes several products: 1) Claims Document Intelligent Pro, 2) Triage, 3) Treatment, 4) Litigation, 5) Clara Fraud, and 6) Clara MSP Compliance.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32243">Claims Document Intelligent Pro</a> is an AI-powered tool that automates the review of claims documents, including legal demands and medical records. It can analyze thousands of pages in seconds, identify key information, and detect treatment patterns to assess risks, improving efficiency and reducing costs.CLARA Triage is an AI tool for claims professionals that predicts claim severity, identifies high-risk claims, and issues real-time alerts to help adjusters act proactively. It improves productivity, reduces costs, and enables faster resolution of simple claims.CLARA Treatment is an AI tool that scores healthcare providers to identify the best options for resolving workers' compensation cases quickly and effectively. It improves claim resolution times, enhances patient outcomes, and reduces costs by matching injured workers with the right providers.CLARA Litigation is an AI tool that analyzes attorney performance and provides insights to reduce the cost and impact of litigated claims. It offers strategic recommendations for case management and helps optimize attorney selection to support decision-making.<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30120">CLARA Fraud</a> is an AI tool that analyzes large workers' compensation datasets to detect suspicious patterns and clusters of potentially fraudulent activity. It increases visibility into suspicious claims, supports SIU referrals, and reduces losses from undetected fraud.CLARA MSP Compliance is an AI tool that automates Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) compliance by identifying Medicare beneficiaries, determining the need for Medicare Set-Asides, and assisting with mandatory reporting. It reduces compliance risks, improves accuracy, and saves costs in handling Medicare-related claims.In 2023, the company launched CLARAty.ai, a casualty claims intelligence platform using predictive and generative AI to support claims professionals. It provides insights, recommended actions, and advanced claim summaries to guide next steps, enhancing traditional systems and workflows.Key customers and partnershipsIts notable customers include Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies, AmTrust, Amerisure, and QBE.&nbsp;Moreover, the company was selected by Amazon in August 2024, as its technology partner to improve health and claim outcomes for its corporate workers' compensation claims.

CLARA Analytics

Coterie Insurance is a Cincinnati-based insurtech company that provides digital small business insurance solutions. Founded in 2018, the company specializes in three main types of business insurance: general liability, business owners' policies, and professional liability coverage. The company employs digital underwriting technology that sources publicly available data to enable instant coverage through a transparent quoting and binding process. Its platform features a qualification checker that indicates within seconds if a business falls within Coterie's appetite. As of June 2022, Coterie's insurance products were available across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The company's policies are underwritten by Spinnaker Insurance Co. and Benchmark Insurance Co., both of which hold A-rated carrier ratings. The platform uses both ISO and proprietary coverage forms, with all policy documents, certificates, billing, and claims managed through a single dashboard. The system reduces paperwork by 80% compared to traditional methods by eliminating ACORD forms and manual underwriting processes.
Key customers and partnerships
The company serves small and micro-businesses across the US, with a particular focus on businesses with fewer than 20 employees. As of June 2022, Coterie worked with a network of 5,000 agents who provide personalized counsel to small business owners. The company's products are distributed both through independent insurance agents and brokers, and directly to business owners through its digital platform. The business maintains partnerships with Spinnaker Insurance Co. and Benchmark Insurance Co. who underwrite its insurance products.

Coterie Insurance

Providers of general, yet comprehensive, end-to-end solutions for insurance companies, covering various aspects of their operations. This includes core systems for policy administration, underwriting, claims processing, billing, and customer relationship management

Specialized platforms that offer lead generation and management services and tools for insurance providers. Tools can include telemarketing, internet, and social media lead generation, referrals, and lead analytics

Underwriting platforms that evaluate risks related to life insurance, health insurance, and related products such as disability and critical illness coverage. They may utilize medical underwriting criteria, genetic information, lifestyle factors, and demographic data to assess applicants' insurability

Platforms that specialize in assessing risks associated with property and casualty insurance, including home, auto, commercial property, and liability coverage. They may incorporate data sources such as property valuations, historical claims data, telematics, and weather patterns to evaluate risk factors accurately

Specialized platforms that streamline and automate claims processing workflows, from initial claim submission to settlement. They may offer software for claims intake, adjudication, fraud detection, and communication with policyholders and third-party service providers

Policy administration systems that focus on managing policy lifecycle activities, including policy issuance, endorsements, renewals, and cancellations. They provide insurers with tools to configure and manage policy rules, coverage options, and premium calculations. Platforms can also have additional functions for commission and performance tracking

Reinsurance technology providers offer a range of innovative tools and services to support reinsurers in managing their operations, assessing risks, and optimizing their reinsurance strategies. These solutions may include advanced analytics, catastrophe modeling, risk assessment tools, portfolio management systems, and underwriting platforms specifically designed for the reinsurance industry

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 COVU, an AI-powered insurance platform, has raised USD 12.5 million in a Series A funding round. BGV, ManchesterStory, and Markd were investors in this round of funding.
 This funding will further propel COVU's aim to revolutionize insurance servicing by synthesizing AI-driven insights with a human-centric approach.
 Established in 2021, COVU specializes in providing AI-enabled operational outsourced services to insurance agencies. COVU's diverse portfolio includes services such as licensed staff support, AI-powered technology integration, access to market, growth consultation, and support for acquisitions.
 
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