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The Travelers Companies

485 Lexington Ave, New York, NY, 10017, United States

Overview

Travelers provides insurance coverage to protect the things that are important to you – your home, your car, your valuables and your business. We have been around for more than 165 years and have earned a reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry because we take care of our customers, agents, brokers, communities and each other.

Total investments
3
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
3
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Investment portfolio

  • LiveEasy

    Participated · Series A · Dec 2022

    MoveEasy provides a home management and concierge platform for homeowners, accessible via a 360 dashboard and app. The platform lets homeowners compare hundreds of service providers across categories including home insurance, internet and cable, home protection, energy, utilities, solar, and home improvement, and includes a savings calculator and concierge service. Its savings monitoring tool automatically searches for the best prices to drive enhanced savings. For real estate partners, MoveEasy offers a customizable solution enabling partners to provide a real concierge service to their clients. The company works with several national and regional clients across real estate, insurance, mortgage, moving and corporate relocation sectors. Led by CEO Venkatesh Ganapathy, MoveEasy plans to use the new funds to accelerate product development, hire talent, and expand its platform into new categories.

  • Hover

    Led · Series D · Nov 2020

    Hover’s core product uses up to eight ordinary smartphone photos to generate structured 3D images encoded with materials, sizes and dimensions to assess repairs and price jobs. The images can be used to automatically create priced quotes, bills of material and timings, and the company also operates an e-commerce portal for builders to order parts. Hover has about 10,000 contractors using its app and holds roughly 35 patents on its technology. The company is already working in commercial buildings and plans to expand further into interior work such as home design and decor, with broader potential in digital twinning across industries. Financially, Hover has grown from roughly $1M in revenue in 2016 to an expected run rate north of $70M this year, reflecting strong traction particularly with insurance partners. Hover provides a computer vision and deep learning platform that converts smartphone photos into interactive 3D property models to facilitate ecommerce for large home improvement projects. The platform delivers exact measurements, lets homeowners and contractors design homes with different products and colors, and enables purchasing of materials directly through the app. Hover partners with The Home Depot, GAF and Beacon, and works with five of the top 10 U.S. insurance carriers to reduce claim adjusting costs and cycle times. The company has grown to hundreds of thousands of users representing tens of thousands of home improvement companies. Led by CEO and founder A.J. Altman, Hover intends to use the new funding to continue to grow through the end of the year. The product and partnerships are positioned to drive further adoption across contractors, retailers and insurers. Hover provides a mobile app that turns a few external photos of a home into a 3D model using computer vision, requiring no specialized hardware or drone shots. The 3D models let homeowners visualize changes like new siding or windows and give contractors precise measurements to produce quotes. Hover also offers Hover Connect, a product that enables contractors to invite homeowners to create models and track lead progress, effectively using contractors to drive adoption. The company emphasizes easy consumer workflows to digitize homes and streamline the homeowner-to-contractor quoting process. Hover is SF-based and has positioned its product as both a consumer visualization tool and a contractor-facing sales/estimation utility. The company has raised institutional funding to scale the business and distribution through contractor partnerships. Hover is a mapping startup that converts smartphone photos, drone and airplane photography, satellite images, recorded video, and other image sources into advanced 3-D imagery. Its core product reconstructs three-dimensional models from nearly any kind of image input. The technology supports inputs ranging from consumer smartphone photos to aerial and satellite photography. According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Hover secured $1.4 million in debt financing. The filing indicates the company is seeking an additional $1.8 million, for a targeted total of $3.2 million. No participating investors were named in the SEC document cited in the VentureBeat article.

  • Pricelock

    Participated · Series B · Mar 2011

    Pricelock provides online fuel hedging and price-protection services to businesses that rely on fuel. The company aggregates demand to enable small and medium-sized businesses across the United States to access fuel-cost controls previously available only to large buyers. Pricelock operates an online platform where businesses can purchase price protection to manage exposure to rising fuel costs. The company aims to expand access to hedging tools for SMBs nationwide. Pricelock recently strengthened its financial position with a fresh financing round amid volatile oil markets. CEO Robert Fell said the funding is timely given current oil-market volatility.

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