Hot on the heels of Gallagher Re’s report in insurtech funding and the harder market, here’s some exciting news from Cover Genius. The link between successful rounds and impressive revenue growth has to be noted by start-ups and medium sized insurtechs alike. Investors want results. Here’s the word;
Cover Genius, the global insurtech for embedded insurance, today announced it has raised $70M USD in Series D funding in a round led by Dawn Capital, with participation from new investor, New York-based Atlas Merchant Capital, and existing investors including GSquared and King River Capital. The raise will assist in the insurtech’s rapid business growth and expansion of its award-winning global insurance distribution platform, XCover.
The oversubscribed round represents a significant valuation uplift from Cover Genius’ Series C in 2021. Since then, the company has experienced a year of immense growth, reaching $1.1m in daily Gross Written Premium (GWP), nearly tripling its year-over-year revenue, and doubling its partnership base with new logos including leading American travel app, Hopper, two of the world’s largest airlines, Ryanair and Turkish Airlines, buy-now, pay later leader, Zip; and Indian gig economy platforms, Ola and Betterplace.
The insurtech has also deepened its global capabilities by investing in India-based insurtech, ensuredIT, and broadened its reach in key verticals by acquiring a leading specialist in ticket refund protection, Booking Protect – which brings market leaders like SeatGeek, Seetickets, Tessitura, Secutix, Audienceview, Zaiko and more onto the XCover platform.
EMBEDDED COVER HAS A BRIGHT FUTURE
Cover Genius offers embedded protection to multiple industries including airlines, travel and rental companies, retail, financial services, real estate, logistics, ticketing, gig economy and benefit companies and more. Its roster of partners includes the world’s largest digital companies, including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Hopper, Skyscanner, Ryanair, Zip and SeatGeek. XCover, Cover Genius’ award-winning global distribution platform, is also available at Amazon, eBay, Wayfair, Flipkart, and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee.
“Cover Genius is rethinking insurance distribution with a tech-forward platform that enables partners and end-customers to provide and access protection at the point of need, ” said Dan Chaplin, Principal at Dawn Capital.
“Embedded insurance is a rapidly growing segment of the market, and Cover Genius has built a leading platform that is globally enabled, multi-line and end-to-end. They’re working with some of the world’s largest platforms in multiple industries, and have combined exponential growth this year with an exceptionally strong business model. We’re excited to support Cover Genius as it continues to reshape the insurance industry and enable easy protection for consumers and businesses.”
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