In 2022, because the know-how market cooled and the insurtech sector went into decline, Israeli startup Subsequent Insurance coverage was compelled to put off workers. On the finish of 2023 it raised a big quantity, $365 million, however at a decrease valuation than in its earlier spherical, falling from $4 billion to $2.5 billion. Now, the corporate is being bought to considered one of its early buyers, German insurance coverage company Munich Re at a barely greater valuation, $2.6 billion. The corporate has raised a complete of $1.17 billion, in accordance with the PitchBook database.
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Munich Re is shopping for the 71% of Subsequent Insurance coverage that it doesn’t already personal, by Ergo Group, its primary insurance coverage unit. The acquisition is a money deal.
Subsequent Insurance coverage develops and manages a digital platform for insuring small companies within the US. It was based 9 years in the past by Man Goldstein, Alon Huri, and Nissim Tapiro. On the time of its final fund elevating spherical in 2023 it reported that it had surpassed 500,000 lively clients within the US by 1,300 several types of insurance coverage. Like one other Israeli insurtech firm, Lemonade, which is lively within the eat market, Subsequent Insurance coverage is predicated on synthetic intelligence and machine studying to hold out good underwriting and to approve inside minutes a coverage provide that matches the factors of small enterprise homeowners. In accordance with LinkedIn, the corporate employs 730 individuals, 200 of them at its Kfar Sava headquarters.
Among the many buyers within the firm, in accordance with PitchBook, are Oren Zeev, by Zeev Ventures, Dovi Frances’s Group 11, TLV Companions, and extra these days Redpoint Ventures, Nationwide Ventures, CapitalG, and a number of other monetary establishments, amongst them Financial institution Hapoalim, Migdal, and Psagot.
The final spherical additionally introduced in two strategic buyers: US insurance coverage firm Allstate and Allianz X, the digital funding arm of German insurance coverage firm Allianz. Allianz X helped Subsequent Insurance coverage to achieve reinsurers, and thereby enhance its profitability.
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