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Insurtech Gateway

32 Blackfriars Road, London, England, SE1 8PB, United Kingdom

Overview

The insurance industry has so many barriers to entry, founders often run out of energy and money just trying to get in. The Gateway is a one-stop-shop for founders, where they can get underwriting paper, investment capital and advice on how to design and build their startup, all surrounded by great insurance partners. The Gateway fund supports the portfolio post incubation, to Series A and beyond. “The Gateway are our insurance sherpas, guiding us through the wilderness of insurance” Mark Musson, co-founder, Humn.ai (Gateway portfolio company) Insurers often struggle to innovate within their own businesses, the Gateway enable insurers to do this in a safe environment. They facilitate insurers, technology partners and insurtechs to get to know each other and work together, over the whole duration of building a business. The Gateway would like to meet early-stage founders with game-changing ideas or products, and progressive (re)insurers who are interested in collaboration.

Total investments
32
Lead investments
16
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
9

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • FinTech
  • Incubators
  • Insurance
  • InsurTech
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Investment portfolio

  • Maximum Information

    Led · Seed · Dec 2025

    Founded in 2020, Maximum Information is developing the first vendor-agnostic middleware layer for catastrophe risk analytics. Its flagship SaaS platform, MagniPhi, plugs into existing cat-modelling workflows and lets users rapidly compare, stress-test and unify outputs from multiple modelling providers. By exposing the assumptions inside each model, the software enables faster and more reliable underwriting and risk-transfer decisions for re/insurers, brokers and financial institutions. The company positions itself as an analytical foundation for closing the $263 billion global natural-catastrophe protection gap. With natural-cat economic losses reaching $417 billion in 2024 and less than 40 % insured, management believes demand for transparent, vendor-agnostic tools will accelerate. Maximum Information intends to capitalise on this generational opportunity by providing orchestration infrastructure rather than another proprietary model. Financial performance metrics such as revenue or customer count were not disclosed, but the company has now secured seed financing to accelerate product development and customer onboarding.

  • Novee AI

    Participated · Seed · Aug 2025

    Novee AI builds an AI intelligence layer for underwriting in the commercial and specialty insurance market. Its platform leverages large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI to integrate into underwriting workflows, automate repetitive tasks, surface contextual insights, and capture underwriter-specific risk logic. Novee serves insurers operating in complex lines such as property, energy, and terrorism. The company was founded by Haris Khan and Arved Pohlabeln and is headquartered in London, UK. Following its recent pre-seed raise, Novee plans to accelerate product development, expand into new insurance classes, and deepen collaborations with global insurers. The financing supports continued development and go-to-market expansion in commercial and specialty insurance.

  • Klaimy

    Led · Seed · Apr 2025

    Klaimy is an AI-powered SaaS platform that automates processing of medical and administrative documents for the insurance industry. The platform helps insurers identify medical risk factors, flag inconsistencies, and support underwriting and claims decisions. It leverages optical character recognition, machine learning, and natural language processing to structure unstructured data, verify document completeness, and enrich data for fraud detection. Founded in 2023 by Amira Nakouri, Yazid Hadni, and Juan Barragan and based in Paris, the company plans to scale engineering and data-science teams, expand product capabilities, and accelerate its commercial rollout across Europe. In April 2025 Klaimy raised €1.2M in a pre-seed round led by Insurtech Gateway with participation from U-Investors, Tenity, and strategic angel investors with insurance experience. Insurtech Gateway is positioned to provide underwriting capacity, regulatory support, seed capital, and expert guidance to support Klaimy's commercialization.

  • Renew Risk

    Participated · Equity · Feb 2025

    Renew Risk builds proprietary risk models and analytics for renewable energy assets, supplying (re)insurers, brokers, bankers, developers and asset managers with insights into physical hazards. Its models quantify risks from events such as hurricanes, earthquakes and severe connective storms affecting offshore wind farms and solar farms. The platform enables financial-market participants to make data-driven decisions, supporting more resilient and sustainable coverage and investments. Renew Risk has established itself as a trusted partner within the insurance industry, with a number of clients currently using the product. With the new £5 million funding, the company plans to scale by enhancing its risk-model suite, expanding its team of risk modellers and climate experts, and extending its market reach globally. Renew Risk is a London-based clean-energy risk analytics SaaS company that provides risk assessment solutions for (re)insurers, insurance brokers, and offshore wind developers. Led by CEO Ashima Gupta, its data-science-driven risk modelling software calculates the frequency and severity of financial losses due to natural disasters for billion-dollar renewable energy assets constructed offshore and in disaster-prone regions. The product enables (re)insurers to understand risk and confidently provide capacity, helping secure insurance and thereby facilitate financing for large offshore wind projects. Renew Risk already has models live with global (re)insurers supporting the transition to green energy. The company raised £1.7M in Seed funding and plans to use the proceeds to engage customers across the US and Asia and to build products covering additional asset classes.

  • Rainwalk Technology

    Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

    Rainwalk Technology is a white-label pet insurance technology provider that enables partners to offer coverage to their customers. The startup also sells insurance directly to consumers, with coverage underwritten by Incline Casualty Company. Based in Columbia, SC, Rainwalk says it will invest in new, alternative, and tech-forward distribution channels historically overlooked by incumbents to dramatically improve market penetration. The company plans to prioritize thoughtful product design, seamless pet insurance integrations, and exceptional operations support to scale channel growth opportunities cost‑effectively. Rainwalk raised $4 million in Seed funding led by ManchesterStory to fuel growth and expand capabilities. The team emphasizes strong industry experience and aims to be an industry‑leading pet health insurtech.

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