Founded in 2005, True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. With more than $3.8 billion under management, True provides seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in some of today's growing markets.  With more than 40 team members including special advisors, operations professionals, and founders-turned-investors, True represents one of the largest and most experienced teams dedicated to the ecosystem.  The True team believes creativity flourishes when founders are supported fully and empowered to pursue brave ideas. To that end, the True Platform offers programs that inspire professional and personal growth. To date, True has helped more than 350 companies launch and scale their businesses, creating over 85,000 jobs worldwide.  True was awarded Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association in 2018. To learn more, visit www.trueventures.com.

True Ventures

Underscore VC is an early-stage, Boston-based venture capital firm backing bold entrepreneurs with an aligned community designed to fit each startup's unique needs.

Underscore VC

Sure Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm investing in the insurtech industry. The firm invests with a mission to enable peace of mind for all individuals and businesses.  Its main areas of focus are insurance, aging, mental health, wealth management, and related sectors.

Sure Ventures

Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that are using tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.  The firm invests from seed to growth in enterprise software, infrastructure software, and industries being transformed by data.  Bain Capital Ventures has helped launch and commercialize 200-plus companies since 2000, including investments in DocuSign, Jet.com, Kiva Systems, LinkedIn, Rapid7, SurveyMonkey, Taleo, and TellApart. Bain Capital Ventures has more than $5.2 billion of assets under management with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Boston.

Bain Capital Ventures

Greenspring Associates is a global investment firm that provides commingled funds and customized partnership capabilities to a diverse group of institutions and individuals in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia. Through a synergistic platform, the firm invests in established and emerging venture capital fund managers, in early and growth stage venture-backed companies and in secondary venture capital fund and secondary direct investments. Currently managing over $7.3 billion of committed capital, its dedicated investment team combines broad venture fund and direct investment expertise.

Greenspring Associates

Emergence is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage enterprise companies. Its mission is to be the most valuable partner to the companies changing the way the world works. In 2017, the firm was named Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Business Insider named Emergence one of the Top 10 Best Performing Venture Funds that launched at the turn of the decade, and posted returns as high as 50%. The firm’s investments include companies such as Salesforce (CRM), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Box (BOX), Zoom (ZM), SuccessFactors (SFSF, acquired by SAP), Yammer (acquired by Microsoft), Zoom, ServiceMax (acquired by GE) and Intact (acquired by Sage). For more information on Emergence, visit http://www.emcap.com and follow @emergencecap.

Emergence

Brewer Lane Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund backing founders transforming the insurance and finance industries. Their investment philosophy is that technology should be used to improve people’s lives, and they partner with founders determined to transform the market for companies and consumers alike.  It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Brewer Lane Ventures

Hi Marley

Marley is the insurance industry’s premier intelligent conversation platform. Hi Marley is a conversation platform that simply and easily connects people with their insurance companies. Marley combines intelligent messaging and human touch to make the experience as easy and efficient as possible. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

<div><p>Hi Marley provides an artificial intelligence (AI) based text messaging platform for insurers to streamline communication around underwriting, claims, and other areas of customer engagement. Hi Marley&rsquo;s technology enables customers to report claims via text and its AI bot can respond to common queries immediately with support for more than 25 languages. Hi Marley&rsquo;s platform also offers application programming interfaces (APIs) that integrate with various core insurance systems. In 2020, the company saw a pandemic-induced four-fold increase in its customer base. Hi Marley now serves more than 40 customers including American Family, MetLife, Auto-Owners, Erie and MAPFRE.</p></div>

InsurTech: Infrastructure

MetLife

MetLife partnered with Hi Marley to digitize its claims filing and claims processing functions

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

American Family Insurance

uses intelligent text messaging to manage and resolve auto insurance claims

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

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    Hi Marley provides an artificial intelligence (AI) based text messaging platform for insurers to streamline communication around underwriting, claims, and other areas of customer engagement. Hi Marley&rsquo;s technology enables customers to report claims via text and its AI bot can respond to common queries immediately with support for more than 25 languages. Hi Marley&rsquo;s platform also offers application programming interfaces (APIs) that integrate with various core insurance systems. In 2020, the company saw a pandemic-induced four-fold increase in its customer base. Hi Marley now serves more than 40 customers including American Family, MetLife, Auto-Owners, Erie and MAPFRE.
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    AgentSync powers growth for insurance carriers, agencies, MGAs, and producers by offering modern tools for producer and compliance management. With a customer-centric design, seamless APIs, and automation, AgentSync's products reduce friction, increase efficiency, and maintain compliance, ultimately helping to improve the broker onboarding, contracting, licensing, appointing, and compliance processes.
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<p><span>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.</span></p>

Artificial Labs

<p><span>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.</span></p>

Bambi Dynamic

<p><span>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.</span></p>

CLARA Analytics

<p><span>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.</span></p>

Coterie Insurance

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

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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