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Top insurtech funding rounds, January 2022

There were 41 funding rounds in the insurtech sector between Jan. 1 and Jan. 31, 2022, according to a review by Digital Insurance. What follows is a selection of the funding rounds. A portion of the data was sourced from Crunchbase. For our previous edition, which covered the month of December, click here. These updates will continue monthly.

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Ascend Raises $30M Series A and Secures $250M Lending Commitment To Boost Modern Insurance Payment Offerings

Ascend, the first modern insurance payments platform, today announced that they have raised a $30M Series A in equity funding, bringing the total funding raised to $39M along with a $250M lending commitment to finance insurance premium loans through its platform facilitated by Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. – doing its re/insurance business as HSCM Bermuda – an investment adviser that specializes in re/insurance, insurtech, and transportation investments.

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DigitalOwl raises $20M to analyze medical records for insurers

In health care, the process of underwriting and claims analysis can be both labor-intensive and error-prone. Claim adjusters and underwriters are often required to read and carefully parse hundreds of documents per case. Each year, the insurance market invests an estimated more than $3 billion in work hours devoted solely to collating and summarizing medical records.

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Insurtech startup Five Sigma extends Series A funding round

Five Sigma, a cloud-native Claims Management solution provider, announced on Wednesday extension of its Series A round from Aquiline Technology Growth (ATG), bringing the company’s total funding to date to over $20 million. The company’s Series A funding was initially announced in September of 2021.

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Stoïk raises $4.3 million

Meet Stoïk, a new French startup that wants to protect small and medium companies against cybersecurity incidents. The company offers an insurance product as well as a service that monitors your attack surface.

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French insurtech startup Leocare raises €110 million

French startup Leocare has raised a big Series B funding round led by Eight Roads. Overall, the company has raised $116 million. It’s an equity and debt round, which means that part of this amount is a cash-for-equity transaction, while the rest is a credit line.

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Resilience raises $80mn in Series C round at $650mn valuation

Resilience, an industry leader in cyber insurance and security solutions, announced today that it closed an $80 million Series C funding round, co-led by General Catalyst and Corey Thomas of Rapid7, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Founders Fund, Charles River Ventures, Shield Capital, and Intact Ventures.

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Kettle raises $25M for its reinsurance platform against fire and other catastrophes

One of the most noticeable — and noted — effects of climate change has been its impact on how other events in the environment — be they natural or man-made occurrences — play out: forest fires burn more violently and for longer; floods happen more often and are more severe when they do; and so on, with climate change often cited as the main culprit for all of the catastrophes.

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Independent workers insurtech Jove to launch in January

Improving the lives of workers in the gig economy isn’t just a political issue — it’s also becoming a hot topic for startups. The latest example is London-based newcomer Jove, an insurtech which has just closed a £600k pre-seed from Fuel Ventures and the heads of Octopus Group Ventures.

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