Insurance Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in the San Francisco Bay Area 2024

Newfront is transforming the delivery of risk management, employee experience, insurance, and retirement solutions by building the modern insurance platform. Transparent data delivered real-time translates into a lower total cost of risk and greater insights. Headquartered in San Francisco, Newfront has offices throughout the country and is home to more than 850 employees who serve clients across the United States and globally.

Jerry makes it really easy to save time and money on car expenses. The car ownership super app first launched its AI- and machine-learning-based car insurance compare-and-buy service in 2019. Today, Jerry serves more than 3 million customers as a licensed insurance broker and an authorized auto refinance provider, while also offering free telematics-based driver safety and repair estimator services. The fastest, easiest and only automated way to compare and buy car insurance, Jerry gives you customized quotes from more than 55 insurance carriers in 45 seconds. Customers skip all the long forms and unwanted human interaction while Jerry hunts for better rates and completes the transaction, saving more than $800 per year. In 2022, Jerry launched its auto refinancing marketplace, which can help customers lower their monthly car payments, on average, by $118 dollars. Jerry is scaling its car insurance and auto refinance products and expanding its marketplace into new categories, removing friction from additional car ownership needs. Jerry will be the only app car owners need to manage all their car expenses. Headquartered in Palo Alto, the company has offices in Toronto, and Lockport, NY, and has removed physical location from recruiting restraints to attract talent.

SafeButler is a free comparison tool that searches hundreds of insurance websites at once to find the information you need to make the right decisions on insurance

Goodcover provides its Members with Good Renters Insurance for 50% less than legacy companies and an Annual Dividend of the money left over after claims obligations are met. Goodcover is a Managing General Agent (MGA) that administers personal insurance on behalf of our Membership, a bit like how USAA does it. Member's premiums are pooled and used to pay claims. We take a fixed fee, and the remainder is returned in our Annual Member Dividend. We work with multi-billion dollar capital partners to ensure regulations are followed, adequate claims capital is always available, and we have emergency capacity for catastrophes. Technology allows us to eliminate waste, saving roughly 25% of the cost. We are 100% digital, but not bots - we invest in tech that enables our experts to help Members. As an Invitation Only Membership served by an MGA, **we can give Members Free Insurance** when they invite others, turning our "Marketing Budget" into savings for Members. This eliminates Lizards and Sales Agents, saving the other 25%. We do not use the standard industry models, instead using a multiperil model to more granularly price risk. This means that for a few of you we are more expensive... but everyone else pays much less than they would otherwise pay. Our granular, multiperil model allows us to offer a superior policy over the standard market including: - coverage for if your place is flooded by a neighbor - Replacement Cost Coverage (meaning new stuff for your old) - All Risk coverage for high value items you tell us about - including computers (almost no one does that amazingly) - added coverage for mold removal Our MGA business model allows us to be capital efficient, "renting" capacity as we need it. All this adds up to our government approved pricing being 40-60% cheaper on average than that of our competitors.

We are building a global safety net for nomads and remote teams. That includes health, disability and pensions, available globally.

AI Insurance is the platform that small-to-midsize insurance companies use to run every part of their business. Before we showed up, they used spreadsheets and filing cabinets – wasting as much as 60% of revenue on administrative expenses. We’re doing what Salesforce did for SMB sales teams, but we’re tapping into the over 10,000 insurance companies that waste $238 Billion dollars annually.

Soteris is a YC-backed company with a four-person team and a great investor base building a first-of-its-kind data ML pricing system for insurance, starting with personal auto.

Tint makes it easy for tech platforms to embed insurance into their products. For example, when you go to Outdoorsy to rent an RV, the insurance that is sold with the rental is powered by our technology. Our product provides anything that is needed from underwriting software to access to insurers to compliance, in a simple API.

The insurance industry struggles to insure new risks like climate change. The amount of climate risk that goes uninsured every year is $180 billion and growing. Plover's software platform enables insurers to design new insurance products quicker and manage policies cheaper, unlocking new risk markets and geographies. Plover's team previously worked together at Palantir, handling data infrastructure for the US Department of Defense.

Coverage Cat (https://www.coveragecat.com) is the best way for people to optimally insure against their risks for homeowners, auto, renters, and general liability insurance. Millions of wealthy but insurance-unfamiliar Americans have purchased policies that leave them vulnerable to million-dollar lawsuits and bankruptcy. Coverage Cat fixes their coverage and offers them cheaper premiums with a focus on the central question of insurance: "how much can you afford to lose?" This risk-first approach allows for policies with higher deductibles that no other insurer will sell you, and enables us to find the multi-million dollar coverage, for truly catastrophic events, that our users need.

Surematics is helping commercial insurance brokers structure complicated deals online. Homeowners and car insurance are enough of a nightmare for most of us to handle but Surematics is targeting even more difficult cases — awkward expensive items like oil rigs. With a dash of blockchain, the startup wants to allow companies to collaborate together to create enforceable contracts.

Savvy is a health benefits product offering employees payment cards to buy their own health insurance. One of the first to market after new regulation, Savvy scaled to $10s of millions in volume and expanded into all 50 state health insurance markets. Savvy was backed by Y Combinator, Marc Andreessen, and the founders of One Medical and Indeed. In 2022, the company was acquired by Take Command, the leading incumbent in the health insurance HRA space.