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

Michigan Angel Fund specializes in investments in angel deals. The fund does not invest in gaming or real estate related ventures. It prefers investing in early-stage start-ups that are at or near revenue. The fund seeks to invest in IT, CleanTech, advanced manufacturing, and health care. The fund invests between $0.2 million to $2 million in its companies. It prefers investing in companies requiring less than $2 million to reach break-even or sustainability. Founded in 2011, Michigan Angel Fund is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Michigan Angel Fund

Service Provider Capital is a venture capital fund that co-invests in series A deals led by institutional venture funds. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Golden, Colorado.

Service Provider Capital

Tappan Hill Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed stage, early growth and rare later stage investments.

Tappan Hill Ventures

Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity investment firm that focuses on healthcare information services and financial service technology.   The firm focuses on driving transformation in these industries by providing entrepreneurs and companies with strategic counsel, board-level participation, and access to our extensive network of industry leaders. Oak HC/FT partners are peerless in delivering returns for investors and growing innovative businesses. Over the past decade, the partners at Oak HC/FT have had 20 realizations with 6 companies achieving valuations in excess of $1 billion. Oak HC/FT is led by the Healthcare and FinTech team of Oak Investment Partners as part of Oak’s strategy to develop sector-specific funds and continue its legacy of building best-in-class businesses.

Oak HC/FT

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Insight has a deep focus in Fintech, Cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and Healthcare sectors. Across their people and their portfolio, they encourage a culture around a core belief growth equals opportunity. As of December 31, 2022, the firm has over $75B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO.

Insight Partners

Groundspeed Analytics

Groundspeed Analytics accelerates commercial insurance performance with the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The Groundspeed platform automatically turns files like submissions, loss runs, exposure schedules, and policy documents into actionable information, empowering users to lower costs, identify profitable pools of risk and drive top-line growth.

Groundspeed Analytics provides smart submissions solutions for commercial insurance in the property and casualty insurance sector. Aimed at brokers, carriers, and managing general agents, the company provides software-as-a-service for smart submissions and analytics solutions. Using its Rapid Fusion product line, it leverages AI, machine learning (ML), and NLP technologies, supported by one of the largest training data sets, to automatically extract data from document types and data types, enabling Groundspeed to provide accurate and validated data, ready-for-use for document submission. Additionally, it provides a unified API connection, AI-powered labeling, quality assurance, and insights into risk analytics for evaluating submissions.

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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, 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

Groundspeed Analytics

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