King River Capital invests in high-growth software and AI-driven technology businesses that are solving critical problems. The firm aims to cultivate a diverse, energized ecosystem of entrepreneurs, operators, and partners that will build the world’s iconic companies and create a better future. It invests typically in the Series A through Series C rounds.  King River Capital (KRC) was founded in 2019 as a venture capital fund dedicated to investing in exceptional teams that are building innovative companies in Australia and the US. It is headquartered in Surry Hills, Australia.

King River Capital

Belfer Management LLC is an accounting firm founded in 1951. It’s based in New York and has multiple locations, including its main office at 767 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4602, in New York City. Belfer Management offers financial planning services, primarily account auditing. It also makes investments, typically in the energy, real estate, and financial services sectors. Belfer Management’s board members include two members of the Belfer family, Robert Belfer and Laurence Belfer, JD. Robert Belfer is the firm’s chairman and founder, while Laurence Belfer is its chief executive officer. Additional senior members of Belfer Management include Eileen Aptman, its chief investment officer, and Jodi Ganz, JD, its chief operating officer. Robert Belfer graduated from Columbia College in 1955 and Harvard Law School in 1958. He had a long career with Belco Oil and Gas, including a 20-year stint as president, and was appointed chairman in 1985. Robert funds many philanthropic causes, including the Neurodegeneration Consortium, which consists of the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, MIT, and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Laurence Belfer is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School and a Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute. He’s also chair emeritus of 92NY, where he founded the Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact. In addition, Laurence serves on the board of #GivingTuesday, a global charity created by the Belfer Center. Other positions that Laurence holds include chair emeritus of the Dean’s Council at the Harvard Kennedy School and board member for the International Council of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Belfer Management LLC

Regal Funds Management aims to provide investors with absolute returns over the medium to long term, through a suite of investment products in both listed and unlisted equities.   The Regal Emerging Companies Fund focuses on Pre-IPO, later stage VC, expansion capital and listed micro-cap opportunities.

Regal Funds Management

Marinya Capital is the family office of a branch of the Fairfax family. It was originally established by Fairfax media, a large Australian media company. Marinya holds active property investments and a portfolio of investments into fund managers. Marinya Capital also makes direct private equity and venture capital investments into select opportunities.

Marinya Capital

AfterWork Ventures is a growing entrant in its early stages. Their investment process is infused with a deep appreciation for the founders' time, intelligence, and courage. Founders are commonly exposed to torturous, time-consuming due diligence processes, only to be unceremoniously rejected despite their efforts. They committed to showing up for founders and created a transparent process that adds value at every step.

AfterWork Ventures

Sompo Holdings provides property and casualty insurance, life insurance, and other financial services. In addition to the core businesses of domestic non-life insurance business, overseas insurance business, domestic life insurance business, and long-term care/senior business, they will develop new business strategies in the fields of digital and healthcare. It was established in 2010 and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Sompo Holdings

Founded in 2011, G Squared is aligned with a fundamental shift: venture-backed companies stay private longer. As a result, private companies need both primary capital to continue their growth trajectory and transitional capital to provide liquidity to early investors, current and former employees, and other sellers. Positioned at the crux of this liquidity access challenge, G Squared partners with portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle using a fundamentally different approach than traditional VCs. The company invests in companies that challenge the status quo and demonstrate a clear path to superior returns, partnering with world-class entrepreneurs tackling big problems. G Squared funds have invested in household names such as 23andMe, Coursera, Instacart, Lyft, Pinterest, and Spotify, as well as in the next generation of disruptors, including Asana, Blend, Bolt, Brex, Capsule, Flexport, Impossible Foods, Toast, and Turo.

G Squared

Dawn Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in the enterprise software and FinTech sectors. It provides capital and counsel to support founders to scale their business’s growth through talent, products, and business models to become category-defining, global companies. The firm is powered by cloud computing, ever-lowering barriers to entry and multi-player categories are changing the way people live and work. As this innovation continues, with the growth of AI and no-code applications, the investment opportunities in Dawn’s area of expertise continue to increase. Its portfolio companies include Mimecast, iZettle, Neo Technology, iControl, Showpad, and Gelato Group. Dawn Capital was founded by Haakon Overli and Norman Fiore in August 2006 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Dawn Capital

Atlas Merchant Capital LLC (“Atlas”) was founded in 2013 by Bob Diamond, who has more than 30 years of experience in global financial services, including senior executive positions at major global financial institutions. It was founded to participate in the compelling opportunities available to those nimble institutions able to navigate today’s complex regulatory environment and changing global patterns of wealth.  Atlas takes a merchant banking approach to global financial services investments with a particular focus on Africa and Investment Management. The investments are long-term and in partnership with management, leveraging the experience and operating expertise of the Atlas team to create value for businesses, employees, shareholders and local communities.

Atlas Merchant Capital

Spark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in exceptional products and the creative individuals behind them. Known for embracing risk and a unique approach, Spark Capital has backed companies like Twitter, Discord, Anthropic, Cruise, Niantic, Oculus, Warby Parker, and Tumblr. Recognizing that there are no set playbooks or formulas for success, the firm supports founders in achieving success on their own terms. Spark Capital invests across all sectors and stages, operating out of San Francisco, Boston, and New York City.

Spark Capital

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Ensuredit provides an AI-based platform to help bring clarity and efficiency to the insurance distribution cycle. From solving problems of diminishing returns on distribution expansion, increasing affordability, and enabling better product-market fit and financial inclusion, Ensuredit empowers end customers and Insurance Intermediaries with AI-based product platforms for transformational customer experience. Ensuredit's API-led approach provides customers access to all the right products across product categories from all insurance companies. Ensuredit solves problems around endorsement, sales force management, agent and POSP onboarding & commission management easily.

Cover Genius provides an insurance distribution platform designed to protect the customers of e-commerce companies. Its products feature integrated end-to-end insurance and warranty capabilities and offer dynamic product recommendations and pricing optimization, while also undertaking the payment of a customer's claim in real time, enabling customers to access increased protection against any uncertainty.

Cover Genius provides an insurance distribution platform designed to protect the customers of e-commerce companies. Its products feature integrated end-to-end insurance and warranty capabilities and offer dynamic product recommendations and pricing optimization, while also undertaking the payment of a customer's claim in real-time, enabling customers to access increased protection against any uncertainty.

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Cover Genius provides an insurance distribution platform designed to protect the customers of e-commerce companies. Its products feature integrated end-to-end insurance and warranty capabilities and offer dynamic product recommendations and pricing optimization, while also undertaking the payment of a customer's claim in real-time, enabling customers to access increased protection against any uncertainty.The company was founded in 2014.

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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, based in Israel, is a SaaS insurance platform that provides vehicle insurance solutions for car OEMs, mobility providers, insurers, and the mobility ecosystem. As a white-label, cloud-based integrated platform, Bambi Dynamic provides an end-to-end solution that includes onboarding, underwriting, user identification, pricing, policy operations, and loss notice. The platform creates insurance products by measuring usage, events, and behavior, using data collected from various sources including smartphones, connected cars, and smart sensors. Bambi Dynamic’s products include personal auto, personal connected auto, fleet insurance, shared and micro-mobility, MaaS for mobility app providers, and autonomous vehicle insurance.

Bambi Dynamic

CLARA Analytics improves claims outcomes in commercial insurance with easy-to-use AI-based products. The company’s product suite applies image recognition, natural language processing, and other AI-based techniques to unlock insights from medical notes, bills and other documents surrounding a claim. CLARA’s predictive insight gives adjusters “AI superpowers” that help them reduce claim costs and optimize outcomes for the carrier, customer and claimant. CLARA’s customers include companies from the top 25 global insurance carriers to large third-party administrators and self-insured organizations. Founded in 2016, CLARA Analytics is headquartered in California’s Silicon Valley. For more information, visit www.claraanalytics.com.

CLARA Analytics

Coterie Insurance is an InsuranceTech company that applies an API-based approach and modern technology to commercial insurance. It looks to integrate insurance with platforms and processes that businesses, contractors, and gig workers use every day. The company also streamlines the insurance process for its clients. Its core focus remains on small business insurance. Products that it offers include business owners policy, general liability insurance, and professional liability insurance. Coterie Insurance is privately held and a licensed insurance producer in all 50 US states.

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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