JAL Ventures Fund provides expansion capital to fast growing, early revenue stage tech startups in Israel.

JAL Ventures

Founded in 2009 and based in Tel-Aviv, 2B-Angels is an early stage micro venture capital fund. We invest in disruptive startups and exceptional entrepreneurs. The initial investment range is $250K-$750M in Seed and Pre-Series A rounds, with reserve capital for follow-on funding in future rounds. There is a strong and growing market need for value ad funding between Angels funding and significant series A. Our mission is to provide extensive mentorship and support to help our portfolio companies find the right product market fit, discover key insights and obtain significant metrics to raise additional funding to build their market presence. We focus on innovation in enterprise software, cyber security and digital communications.

2B Angels

KT Squared invested more than $40M in Israeli Start-up companies that exhibit a strong innovative leadership as well as ripe technology and product, which is on the verge of sales and revenues. KT Squared invested in Israeli Start-Up companies spanning several business sectors including biotech, mobile retailing, fleet management; as well as fin-tech, and energy.

KT Squared

Israel Growth Partners (IGP) is a technology growth fund established with a mission to provide growth capital to Israel-related technology companies. With over $600 million in AUM, IGP seeks to partner with exceptional companies and management teams who are eager to accelerate their growth and reach category leadership in their respective markets. For more information on IGP, please visit www.igpcapital.com

Israel Growth Partners

Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology. It invests in potentially, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies.

Battery Ventures

Cross Creek is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 inside of Wasatch Advisors, Inc. Through its direct investment strategy and fund investment strategy the firm seeks to invest in what we believe are high quality late stage companies and top-tier venture capital funds. The strategies are mutually beneficial in their goal to strengthen ties between private and public investors and to achieve above market returns for limited partners.

Cross Creek

HarbourVest is an independent investment firm that provides innovative private equity solutions to institutional clients worldwide.  As one of the first private equity fund-of-funds, they have a long and distinguished history of investing in venture, buyout, and mezzanine and distressed markets in the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific, and emerging markets through primary partnerships, secondary purchases, and direct investments.

HarbourVest Partners

Novidea

Novidea is the creator of a born-in-the-cloud, data-driven insurance platform that enables brokers, agents, and MGAs to modernize and manage the customer insurance journey end-to-end and drive growth across the entire insurance distribution lifecycle. The Novidea platform, built to leverage the power of Salesforce’s Big Technology, provides a complete ecosystem spanning every aspect of an insurance business. The platform’s technology provides a 360-degree view of the customer and all stakeholders, enabling full integration between customer-facing policy transactions and the middle and back office. Brokers, agencies, and MGAs extract more value from their customer and policy data with actionable intelligence from any device, anywhere. Novidea turns data into insight at the point of need, enabling better-informed decisions and delivering greater customer value through products and services tailored to individual needs. Novidea supports more than 100 customers, including agents, brokers, MGAs, and the London market across 22 countries.

Novidea provides a cloud-native, data-driven insurance management platform that enables brokers, agents, Managing General Agents (MGAs), Managing General Underwriters (MGUs), and carriers to manage the entire insurance policy distribution lifecycle. The platform leverages Salesforce's technology and uses an open API architecture to integrate front, middle, and back office operations. It automates time-consuming tasks and offers capabilities like policy management, claims tracking, financial operations workflow, billing, payments processing, and document management. The platform allows insurance organizations to access customer data and policy information remotely from any device while providing real-time analytics and actionable business insights. As of 2023, Novidea supported more than 100 customers across 22 countries, managing over 22 million policies. In December 2023, the company expanded its operations to Southeast Asia, starting with Hong Kong and Singapore. In February 2024, Novidea was recognized in PropertyCasualty360's Insurance Luminaries Class of 2024 for technology innovation in the property and casualty insurance sector.

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How Novidea is redefining insurance distribution through technology and market expertise

Novidea provides a cloud-native, data-driven insurance management platform that enables brokers, agents, Managing General Agents (MGAs), Managing General Underwriters (MGUs), and carriers to manage the entire insurance policy distribution lifecycle. The platform leverages Salesforce's technology and uses an open API architecture to integrate front, middle, and back office operations. It automates time-consuming tasks and offers capabilities like policy management, claims tracking, financial operations workflow, billing, payments processing, and document management. The platform allows insurance organizations to access customer data and policy information remotely from any device while providing real-time analytics and actionable business insights. As of 2023, Novidea supported more than 100 customers across 22 countries, managing over 22 million policies. In December 2023, the company expanded its operations to Southeast Asia, starting with Hong Kong and Singapore. In February 2024, Novidea was recognized in PropertyCasualty360's Insurance Luminaries Class of 2024 for technology innovation in the property and casualty insurance sector.
Key customers and partnerships
Novidea's platform has been implemented by several insurance organizations including Harbour Underwriting MGA and SRG (Specialist Risk Group) in the London Market. According to a 2023 global survey, 75% of insurance organizations worldwide planned to change their insurance management technology platforms by 2025, with 41% of leaders citing improved customer value delivery as their top priority. One of Novidea's clients reported adding 7,000 retail agencies and increasing their submission processing to over 4,000 per month after implementing the platform.

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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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