ManchesterStory

🙏 Grateful for ManchesterStory (Nicole (Cook) Gunderson) sponsoring our Zoë Foundry Live Painting for Good experience (with mixed media artist Jason Gross) at our first Kairos Connection & Ideation Event in Des Moines back in May. Proceeds from the auction went to Principal Charity Classic Iowa kids charities! 🙏 Grateful for Principal Financial Group hosting our first Zoë board meeting with Jason T. Andrew, Kara Hoogensen, Peter A Espinosa. The future is bright to build great companies with great founders that serve the employee benefits industry. 🚀 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TO COME 🚀 We're hosting our next Zoë Foundry Kairos event at InsureTech Connect October 15th with SPECIAL GUESTS*** and a new artist + employee benefits sponsor for our Live Painting for Good experience with proceeds going to another amazing charity. #dogood #iowakids #employeebenefits #principalcharityclassic #kairosconnection #venturestudio #startupstudio

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve closed $4 million in seed funding led by ManchesterStory with participation from Insurtech Gateway, Bridge Investments, Seaplane Ventures, and several insurance and reinsurance executives. The capital will fuel investments in people, product and tech that power alternate distribution channels and further differentiate Rainwalk’s pet health ecosystem in the marketplace. Read more: https://lnkd.in/epqHQSaB

Getting the opportunity to reflect on the last 20 years leading to my current investor role at ManchesterStory was an absolute privilege. Thank you Sarah Diehn and the Des Moines Business Record for taking me on that trip and sharing with our Iowa business community! There's one thing that didn't explicitly get said which is - it's the relationships that I've built along the way that continue to matter the most. I have been fortunate to meet and work with so many incredible people through each experience and I'm looking forward to the next 20 years! The University of Iowa Tippie College of Business BMO Capital Markets The Wharton School Dwolla Speeko — A.I. Speech Coach Global Insurance Accelerator ManchesterStory https://lnkd.in/gfdXXJvV

We’re Thrilled to Share Big News! Wisedocs, at the forefront of insurance technology, has achieved a significant milestone by closing a $12.7M oversubscribed Series A funding round. 🚀  Led by Information Venture Partners, alongside Thomson Reuters Ventures and ManchesterStory, this funding marks a pivotal moment in our journey to redefine the insurance landscape. This success comes as we more than double our customer base, a testament to the trust and impact Wisedocs is making in the insurance industry. 🤝 Our machine learning SaaS for medical record review, indexing, and summarization is poised for even greater advancements. 📰 Explore the full details in our official press release. Join us in celebrating this achievement and stay tuned for the next chapter of innovation! 🌟 🔗 Read the full release now: https://lnkd.in/gCqtSVBX #Wisedocs #SeriesA #Insurtech #PressRelease #Announcement #Raise #Insurtech #Fintech #SaaS

Betterview is officially part of the Nearmap family! Nearmap has signed an agreement to acquire Betterview, harnessing the combined power of aerial imagery, location intelligence, and property risk management for insurance providers. Read the full press release for additional details: https://hubs.ly/Q02c4-dK0

Betterview is officially part of the Nearmap family! Nearmap has signed an agreement to acquire Betterview, harnessing the combined power of aerial imagery, location intelligence, and property risk management for insurance providers. Read the full press release for additional details: https://hubs.ly/Q02c4-dK0

Dear LinkedIn friends, It has been great to see so many of you at InsureTech Connect (thanks again for such an impressive job, Bill Harris - this event is so important for our community). It is also my pleasure to share with you the third Gallagher Re InsurTech report of the 2023 series. We continue this year to focus on the different lifecycle funding stages into InsurTech - with this latest report looking at what we are calling 'mid-stage expansion' (essentially Series B and C). At a glance for this third quarter, the numbers are quite dramatic. Global InsurTech funding increased 19.8% quarter on quarter, from $916.71 million in Q2’23 to $1.098 billion in Q3’23. Early-stage InsurTech funding increased 24.7% quarter on quarter, from $216.05 million to $269.45 million. Q3’23 saw average InsurTech deal sizes dip to a six-year low. Deal share for US-based InsurTechs at the highest level since Q1’20. 15.1% of all Q3’23 InsurTech deals were in the mid-stage expansion category, which is less than long-term InsurTech trends. The majority of tech investments from (re)insurers were early stage for the fifth consecutive quarter. To understand what is driving these numbers and get a better sense of the exciting inflection point we are now observing, please access the complete report. Full report available for download at the bottom of the link https://lnkd.in/eKYAmRfA Now to our wonderful participants – this report would not be possible without the following companies and people featured; Boost (Alex Maffeo, Lisa Khoury), Novidea (Roi Agababa, Julie Shafiki Kate Shopper), YuLife (Sammy Rubin), Zopper (Mayank Gupta), Donald Price, CFA, ManchesterStory (Jason Gross), LULA (Matthew Vega-Sanz, Michael Vega-Sanz), Plug and Play Tech Center (Saeed Amidi, Sean V.) our partners CB Insights, Freddie Scarratt Irina Heckmeier, Brea White and Charlie Thomas. #insurtech #gallagher #gallagherre- #itcvegas2023

Profitable growth is more important than ever in this challenging market. Cowbell is thrilled to announce recent milestones, including YoY new customer base growth, additional equity funding, and our ultimate loss ratio. All of these numbers tell the story of perseverance and adaptation. We are proud of these achievements and are moving forward with confidence in our company and team. https://bit.ly/40zbZZv #milestones #morecowbell