New York City InsurTech Startups + Carriers

David Gritz and Tony Lew joined the CCIA conference in Coeur d’Alene this week to discuss AI, insurance innovation, and why “wait and see” is becoming a dangerous strategy in the industry. Beautiful setting. Smart conversations. Strong signals for where insurance is headed next.

Two Q1 reports: 95% of InsurTech funding went to AI companies. $1.63B raised. Median deal size doubled since 2021. Reserv raised $125M. Cognizant bought Astreya for $600M. Fuse launched Mark. Pilot season's over. This is deployment. insurtechny.com/insurtech-week…

Insurance doesn’t have an AI problem. It has a “pilot” problem. Everyone has tested something. Very few have scaled it. The gap between demo and real workflow is where most teams stall. May 21 | 1PM ET, we're talking about that. insurtechny.com/events/webinar…

Applications are open for the InsurTech NY MGA Lab. For startups building MGAs and MGAs launching new products. 3 days in NYC + 3 months of advisors. Real relationships. No fluff. insurtechny.com/mga-lab/

This week in insurtech: Wildfire insurance gets funded. ChatGPT becomes a distribution channel. Agentic AI moves deeper into quoting. Banks, brokers, and carriers keep tightening control over the value chain. This is a market getting more serious. insurtechny.com/insurtech-week…

Tony Lew at NY Fintech Week's RevTech Labs Fintech Showcase. Great to support @RevTechLabs and connect with fintech/insurtech leaders. New York during Fintech Week = unmatched density of talent, capital, and ideas. #fintech #insurtech #financialtechnology #NYC

AI pilots rarely fail with a bang. Most just never make it to production. We’re bringing together operators & builders to talk about why that happens, what teams keep getting wrong, and how to build automation that actually works at scale. Save your Spot insurtechny.com/events/webinar…

AI is everywhere in insurtech. That’s not the story anymore. We analyzed 188 startup applications to see what actually matters in 2026: • Claims is heating up • Underwriting ≠ being replaced • B2B is winning • Real traction > hype Full breakdown: insurtechny.com/insurtech-tren…

This week: Sompo + Zego, Aon at $3.5B, New Mountain enters reinsurance, Guidewire's AI assistant goes live, Kin in Oklahoma, and Beazley's $1B Hormuz war consortium. Full breakdown → insurtechny.com/insurtech-week… #InsurTech #Insurance #news

Tony Lew of @InsurTechNY breaks down the future of the industry on the latest FUNDamental episode. 🎧 bit.ly/492yI5j

Most AI pilots in insurance stall before production. Not because the AI doesn't work—because of integration complexity and process dependencies. This week: real-time vulnerability data in underwriting, print mail automation, $100M for AI retirement advice. #insurtech

Great to see the insurance community gathered at @GISDesMoines this week. David Gritz and Tony Lew were on site for InsurTech NY, connecting with industry leaders and catching up with Jason Gross of @TruStage, who also emceed our Spring Conference.

Most insurance AI pilots never reach production. Join InsurTech NY and @UnitaryAI on May 21 to learn what separates demos from deployments. Free to attend. 🔗insurtechny.com/events/webinar… #insurance #AI #webinar

$2B valuation for GLP-1 weight management. Gyde acquired an agency 2 months after launching. Embedded insurance everywhere. This week's insurance headlines here. #insurtech #news #startups #GLP1

Insurance company staffs have nothing to fear from AI, said executives from Berkshire Hathaway Guard, Ascot Group, @NYSIF_1914 @tokiomarine and @GBU_Life, at the @InsurTechNY conference recently. bit.ly/4vhS3Jh #AI #insurance #insurtech #InsurtechNY #DigitalInsuranceNews

Congrats to Navwise and Trajan AI, winners of our 2026 Early Stage Competition. Chosen from nearly 300 applicants and rising from a standout top 10 at Pier 60, both teams delivered when it counted most. Excited to see what’s next for Jason Andrew, GS Pannu, and their teams.

Insurance company staffs have nothing to fear from AI, said executives from Berkshire Hathaway Guard, Ascot Group, @NYSIF_1914 @tokiomarine and @GBU_Life, at the @InsurTechNY conference recently. bit.ly/4vhS3Jh #AI #insurance #insurtech #InsurtechNY #DigitalInsuranceNews

Digital Insurance reporting from @InsurTechNY. Ascot Group's David Zweier making the point I've been making for two years: governance doesn't slow AI down. Done properly, it accelerates it. The carriers who figure this out first will eat the ones who don't. dig-in.com/news/how-insur…

Aviva launched home insurance quoting in ChatGPT. Cambridge Mobile Telematics raised $350M. Distribution and data infrastructure are both shifting fast. This week's insurance headlines 👇

#Geospatialdata is reshaping how insurers assess #propertyrisk. This piece is @_diginsurance captures a shift that came through clearly at @InsurTechNY this week. @EarthDailyA joined a panel on geospatial data for better risk selection, alongside peers across the ecosystem. The conversation is moving quickly, from static views of exposure to more dynamic, spatially grounded approaches to understanding risk. Read more: hubs.li/Q049s_VP0 #InsurtechNY #Insurance #ClimateRisk #Geospatial