Novella is an AI-native wholesale insurance broker co-founded in 2024 and headquartered in New York with an R&D facility in Tel Aviv. Its specialty AI agents perform placement, binding, form comparison, policy review, subjectivity collection, inspections, billing, endorsements, renewals, and other broking tasks to enable producers to focus on client relationships. The company has been appointed by close to 100 specialty carriers and managing general agents and receives business from more than 3,500 retail agencies. Novella has opened offices in Miami and Houston in 2026 and plans additional regional offices, including southern California in Q2. Leadership includes CEO and co-founder Max Kane, CTO Michael Tsibelman, and Head of Brokerage Alex Broome. Novella aims to become a top-five U.S. wholesale Excess & Surplus broker with $10 billion of premium within the decade.

Total raised

$21M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

May 2026