Markd

Markd is a venture capital firm established in 2022 and based in Boulder, Colorado. The company specializes in funding and partnering with innovative businesses in the insurtech sector. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Markd aims to support transformative insurtech companies, helping them grow and succeed in a rapidly evolving industry.

Ward Parker Beauchamp

Founder and Managing Partner

34 past transactions

Scription

Seed Round in 2025
Scription is a company that specializes in personalized subscription maintenance contracts for commercial and industrial equipment. By offering tailored maintenance plans, Scription provides equipment owners with cost assurance and minimizes the risk of product breakdowns, achieving up to three times fewer issues compared to traditional maintenance approaches. The company fosters a collaborative relationship between equipment owners and repair service providers, facilitating competitive offers and streamlined financial processes. This approach allows service companies to efficiently develop subscription maintenance contracts, ensuring that equipment owners and operators receive reliable, efficient, and customized support. Through these services, Scription aims to enhance the overall maintenance experience while promoting positive outcomes for all stakeholders involved.

Cyberwrite

Series A in 2024
Cyberwrite is a company specializing in cyber insurance policies and risk management technology designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses. Founded by seasoned industry professionals, Cyberwrite leverages its proprietary 4SEEN algorithms to provide advanced underwriting and risk assessment solutions. The company's platform enables real-time, on-demand evaluation of cyber risk, facilitating the sale and management of cyber insurance policies. By serving carriers and brokers in more than 20 countries and supporting multiple languages, Cyberwrite enhances the efficiency and profitability of cyber insurance transactions, benefiting both brokers and reinsurers.

b atomic!

Seed Round in 2024
B Atomic is an insurance technology developer focused on empowering independent agents by leveraging their data to enhance customer experiences. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Broadview Heights, Ohio, the company's platform serves as a fully connected ecosystem, facilitating real-time communication and providing essential data points for marketing, sales, and operations. By integrating seamlessly with various tools, B Atomic enables agents to create memorable interactions for their clients while ensuring that insurance carriers can easily connect and support these efforts.

Cake

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Cake is an online platform that helps its users to buy and sell their insurance business. Cake connects its users with independent insurance agents looking to sell a book of business or a slice.

COVU

Series A in 2024
COVU is a provider of insurance brokerage services designed to support independent agencies and their clients by offering customized insurance solutions. Founded by a team of experts in the insurance, finance, and technology sectors, COVU focuses on delivering transparent and unbiased advice. The company employs a holistic approach to insurance management, integrating advanced AI technology with human intelligence to enhance the customer experience. COVU aims to empower growth-oriented insurance professionals by streamlining the business aspects of insurance operations, facilitating personalized risk management that emphasizes radical transparency. Through its data-driven and comprehensive services, COVU enables individuals and agencies to accurately identify and assess risks, ultimately promoting smarter insurance management.

Pinpoint Predictive

Series A in 2024
Pinpoint Predictive is a company that specializes in providing property and casualty insurers with advanced loss predictions and risk scores based solely on a customer's name and address. Its platform is designed to enhance risk selection at the initial stages of the customer journey by delivering actuarial predictions related to claims frequency, severity, and loss costs. Additionally, the platform offers risk scores that assist insurers in identifying cases for special investigations, managing litigation, addressing early cancellations, and reducing premium leakage. By enabling insurers to track consumer behavior and tailor their product offerings, Pinpoint Predictive enhances the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the underwriting process.

b atomic!

Seed Round in 2024
B Atomic is an insurance technology developer focused on empowering independent agents by leveraging their data to enhance customer experiences. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Broadview Heights, Ohio, the company's platform serves as a fully connected ecosystem, facilitating real-time communication and providing essential data points for marketing, sales, and operations. By integrating seamlessly with various tools, B Atomic enables agents to create memorable interactions for their clients while ensuring that insurance carriers can easily connect and support these efforts.

Charlee.ai

Seed Round in 2024
Charlee.ai specializes in providing insurance companies with advanced artificial intelligence and predictive analytics solutions tailored for claims management. The company has developed an insights platform designed to identify cost and litigation propensity patterns within insurance claims. This platform features a range of sophisticated tools, including an AI-enabled chatbot that offers recommendations and suggested actions, as well as an alert system that detects red flags and suspicious patterns through cognitive analysis. Additionally, Charlee.ai's pre-litigation prediction tool employs emotion and sentiment analysis, granting clients enhanced oversight and contributing to improved loss ratios.

CrashBay

Seed Round in 2024
CrashBay is a digital marketplace designed to streamline the connection between car owners and repair shops. By allowing users to search for qualified car repair, service, body, glass, tire, and detailing shops via a user-friendly platform, CrashBay facilitates booking appointments at convenient times. Customers can easily find repair shops by entering their city name or zip code, browse available services, and receive confirmations for their selected appointments. Currently operational in Canada and the USA, CrashBay aims to expand its marketplace globally, further enhancing accessibility for car owners seeking trusted automotive services.

Assureful

Seed Round in 2024
Assureful is a company that specializes in providing commercial insurance products tailored for the e-commerce merchant community. Its platform is designed to deliver data-driven property and casualty insurance solutions, including product liability, public liability, and legal protection insurance. Assureful offers a variety of coverage options for diverse clients, including private-label brands, retail arbitrage operations, resellers, and wholesalers. The company's focus is on ensuring clients obtain accurately rated and priced insurance that meets their specific needs, thereby enhancing their operational security in the dynamic e-commerce landscape.

Cake

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Cake is an online platform that helps its users to buy and sell their insurance business. Cake connects its users with independent insurance agents looking to sell a book of business or a slice.

Indemn

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Indemn AI is a technology company focused on enhancing the insurance industry through artificial intelligence. It provides insurers and brokers with advanced GenAI agents that facilitate customer engagement and improve internal operations. These multi-modal agents enable communication through various channels, including voice, webchat, text, and email, ensuring a seamless experience for users. Indemn AI also features a unique human-in-the-loop AI Copilot, along with a customizable AI Studio, which allows for the development of tailored, production-ready solutions. Additionally, the company offers a chatbot platform that creates self-service experiences for purchasing coverages, such as digital event and wedding insurance, thereby helping clients mitigate risks associated with events. Overall, Indemn AI aims to support the digital transformation of insurance businesses by providing innovative tools and services that address their operational challenges.

COVU

Series A in 2024
COVU is a provider of insurance brokerage services designed to support independent agencies and their clients by offering customized insurance solutions. Founded by a team of experts in the insurance, finance, and technology sectors, COVU focuses on delivering transparent and unbiased advice. The company employs a holistic approach to insurance management, integrating advanced AI technology with human intelligence to enhance the customer experience. COVU aims to empower growth-oriented insurance professionals by streamlining the business aspects of insurance operations, facilitating personalized risk management that emphasizes radical transparency. Through its data-driven and comprehensive services, COVU enables individuals and agencies to accurately identify and assess risks, ultimately promoting smarter insurance management.

Assureful

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Assureful is a company that specializes in providing commercial insurance products tailored for the e-commerce merchant community. Its platform is designed to deliver data-driven property and casualty insurance solutions, including product liability, public liability, and legal protection insurance. Assureful offers a variety of coverage options for diverse clients, including private-label brands, retail arbitrage operations, resellers, and wholesalers. The company's focus is on ensuring clients obtain accurately rated and priced insurance that meets their specific needs, thereby enhancing their operational security in the dynamic e-commerce landscape.

Scription

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Scription is a company that specializes in personalized subscription maintenance contracts for commercial and industrial equipment. By offering tailored maintenance plans, Scription provides equipment owners with cost assurance and minimizes the risk of product breakdowns, achieving up to three times fewer issues compared to traditional maintenance approaches. The company fosters a collaborative relationship between equipment owners and repair service providers, facilitating competitive offers and streamlined financial processes. This approach allows service companies to efficiently develop subscription maintenance contracts, ensuring that equipment owners and operators receive reliable, efficient, and customized support. Through these services, Scription aims to enhance the overall maintenance experience while promoting positive outcomes for all stakeholders involved.

Irys Insurtech

Seed Round in 2023
Irys Insurtech is a developer of insurance management software that aims to transform the interactions between agents, brokers, and managing general agents (MGAs) and their clients. Its modular management system integrates advanced technology to enhance human connections in the insurance sector. The software features an open and public API, workflow automation, direct carrier integrations, and a robust AI engine. This human-centric and relationship-focused platform enables agencies and brokerages to manage their operations more effectively, fostering new relationships with customers and improving retention rates. Through its innovative approach, Irys is fundamentally changing how insurance professionals engage with their clients.

COVU

Seed Round in 2023
COVU is a provider of insurance brokerage services designed to support independent agencies and their clients by offering customized insurance solutions. Founded by a team of experts in the insurance, finance, and technology sectors, COVU focuses on delivering transparent and unbiased advice. The company employs a holistic approach to insurance management, integrating advanced AI technology with human intelligence to enhance the customer experience. COVU aims to empower growth-oriented insurance professionals by streamlining the business aspects of insurance operations, facilitating personalized risk management that emphasizes radical transparency. Through its data-driven and comprehensive services, COVU enables individuals and agencies to accurately identify and assess risks, ultimately promoting smarter insurance management.

Loro Insurtech

Seed Round in 2023
Loro Insurtech Inc. is a software-as-a-service platform that facilitates the digital transaction of insurance products for insurance companies, managing general agencies, and brokers worldwide. The platform's primary advantages include its user-friendly interface, rapid speed-to-market, and the absence of upfront investment requirements. Loro's portal enhances operational efficiency by offering real-time reporting, streamlined quote and bind processes, and comprehensive document production capabilities. This allows insurance providers to launch and manage their online offerings quickly and without the need for coding expertise, thus enabling them to adapt to market demands efficiently.

OCHO

Seed Round in 2023
OCHO is a provider of auto insurance services that focuses on affordability and fairness while promoting credit-building opportunities for its customers. The company offers innovative insurance solutions that include zero down payments and lower premiums, making it easier for individuals to access insurance coverage. Additionally, OCHO’s services extend to lower security deposits for rental agreements and the elimination of deposits for utilities, allowing users to secure their assets at a low and equitable cost. Through its unique approach, OCHO aims to enhance financial accessibility and stability for its clients.

Ledgebrook

Seed Round in 2023
Ledgebrook is a technology-driven managing general agent (MGA) focused on modernizing the specialty insurance sector. The company aims to streamline the quoting process for wholesale brokers through an innovative platform that utilizes an API-powered quoting system and AI-driven risk assessment. By eliminating manual processes and reducing underwriting delays, Ledgebrook facilitates a quicker and more efficient experience for brokers, enabling them to secure competitive pricing and access a diverse range of specialty products. Ledgebrook is led by seasoned insurance industry professionals who envision transforming the company into a globally diversified reinsurer, underpinned by advanced technology.

Charlee.ai

Seed Round in 2023
Charlee.ai specializes in providing insurance companies with advanced artificial intelligence and predictive analytics solutions tailored for claims management. The company has developed an insights platform designed to identify cost and litigation propensity patterns within insurance claims. This platform features a range of sophisticated tools, including an AI-enabled chatbot that offers recommendations and suggested actions, as well as an alert system that detects red flags and suspicious patterns through cognitive analysis. Additionally, Charlee.ai's pre-litigation prediction tool employs emotion and sentiment analysis, granting clients enhanced oversight and contributing to improved loss ratios.

Pilotbird

Seed Round in 2023
Pilotbird is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides a platform specifically designed for insurance companies. The platform utilizes social data points to enhance various aspects of the insurance value chain. By analyzing these data points, Pilotbird enables Life and Health insurance teams to more accurately assess risk, engage with customers, and identify potential claims fraud. The company's focus on delivering actionable lifestyle insights allows clients to improve their risk scoring, refine policy pricing, and enhance customer interaction, ultimately contributing to more efficient and effective insurance operations.

Fenris Digital

Seed Round in 2023
Fenris Digital is a technology company that specializes in providing solutions for global property and casualty insurers through a cloud-based platform. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Glen Allen, Virginia, the company offers a suite of digital solutions, including an AI-based analytics engine that enhances underwriting efficiency and a mobile-first quoting platform known as TouchQuote. Fenris Digital's single API integrates data and insights to streamline customer acquisition and improve retention for insurance products. Its extensive data coverage includes 95% of the U.S. population, enabling clients to access critical information that enhances their workflows, increases conversion rates, and fosters an improved customer experience. By employing machine learning analytics, Fenris Digital helps insurers reduce the complexity of customer applications and optimize lead selection, ultimately driving better outcomes in the insurance market.

Pinpoint Predictive

Series A in 2023
Pinpoint Predictive is a company that specializes in providing property and casualty insurers with advanced loss predictions and risk scores based solely on a customer's name and address. Its platform is designed to enhance risk selection at the initial stages of the customer journey by delivering actuarial predictions related to claims frequency, severity, and loss costs. Additionally, the platform offers risk scores that assist insurers in identifying cases for special investigations, managing litigation, addressing early cancellations, and reducing premium leakage. By enabling insurers to track consumer behavior and tailor their product offerings, Pinpoint Predictive enhances the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the underwriting process.

Cyberwrite

Series B in 2023
Cyberwrite is a company specializing in cyber insurance policies and risk management technology designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses. Founded by seasoned industry professionals, Cyberwrite leverages its proprietary 4SEEN algorithms to provide advanced underwriting and risk assessment solutions. The company's platform enables real-time, on-demand evaluation of cyber risk, facilitating the sale and management of cyber insurance policies. By serving carriers and brokers in more than 20 countries and supporting multiple languages, Cyberwrite enhances the efficiency and profitability of cyber insurance transactions, benefiting both brokers and reinsurers.

Pattern

Series A in 2023
Pattern is an insurance platform focused on providing innovative parametric and traditional insurance products that enable businesses to enhance their digital buying experience. The company offers coverages that address critical risks, including cloud service provider downtime, utility outages, supply chain disruptions, and weather-related incidents. By leveraging parametric insurance, Pattern allows businesses to access frictionless, self-service policies that streamline the claims process, automatically paying out to insured customers shortly after a qualifying event without the need for claim filing or loss verification. Currently, Pattern is finalizing its operational deployment as a managing general agent (MGA) in the United States.

Indemn

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Indemn AI is a technology company focused on enhancing the insurance industry through artificial intelligence. It provides insurers and brokers with advanced GenAI agents that facilitate customer engagement and improve internal operations. These multi-modal agents enable communication through various channels, including voice, webchat, text, and email, ensuring a seamless experience for users. Indemn AI also features a unique human-in-the-loop AI Copilot, along with a customizable AI Studio, which allows for the development of tailored, production-ready solutions. Additionally, the company offers a chatbot platform that creates self-service experiences for purchasing coverages, such as digital event and wedding insurance, thereby helping clients mitigate risks associated with events. Overall, Indemn AI aims to support the digital transformation of insurance businesses by providing innovative tools and services that address their operational challenges.

Allium

Seed Round in 2023
Allium is a developer of on-chain data infrastructure solutions that specializes in organizing and enriching blockchain data for enhanced analytics. The company offers a range of products, including managed blockchain databases and enriched data schemas, which support over 40 blockchains. Allium's platform is designed to facilitate real-time monitoring and alerting capabilities, allowing users to extract insights and track on-chain patterns efficiently. By enabling complex queries and integrating seamlessly into existing workflows, Allium aims to simplify data access for crypto analytics teams, ultimately improving their ability to perform accurate analyses.

Glow

Series A in 2022
Glow is an innovative insurance company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2018. It focuses on transforming the insurance landscape to provide comprehensive protection for individuals in their work and personal lives. Glow has developed a unique insurance support platform that integrates workers' compensation and health insurance, ensuring coverage for a range of needs, including medical procedures, disability, and death events. This approach enables small businesses to secure appropriate insurance coverage at a lower cost, not only at the time of purchase but continuously throughout the year. By prioritizing holistic coverage, Glow aims to enhance the overall insurance experience for its clients.

OCHO

Series B in 2022
OCHO is a provider of auto insurance services that focuses on affordability and fairness while promoting credit-building opportunities for its customers. The company offers innovative insurance solutions that include zero down payments and lower premiums, making it easier for individuals to access insurance coverage. Additionally, OCHO’s services extend to lower security deposits for rental agreements and the elimination of deposits for utilities, allowing users to secure their assets at a low and equitable cost. Through its unique approach, OCHO aims to enhance financial accessibility and stability for its clients.

Babel Cover

Seed Round in 2022
Babel Cover is a provider of sustainable and transparent rewards-linked digital insurance. The company has developed a digital insurance platform that connects insurance buyers, sellers, and algorithmic traders over the internet. Its platform offers a variety of individualized and interconnected financial services products, designed to optimize insurance transactions. By focusing on sustainability and transparency, Babel Cover aims to enhance the user experience in the insurance sector, allowing clients to receive rewards linked to their insurance products.

Scription

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Scription is a company that specializes in personalized subscription maintenance contracts for commercial and industrial equipment. By offering tailored maintenance plans, Scription provides equipment owners with cost assurance and minimizes the risk of product breakdowns, achieving up to three times fewer issues compared to traditional maintenance approaches. The company fosters a collaborative relationship between equipment owners and repair service providers, facilitating competitive offers and streamlined financial processes. This approach allows service companies to efficiently develop subscription maintenance contracts, ensuring that equipment owners and operators receive reliable, efficient, and customized support. Through these services, Scription aims to enhance the overall maintenance experience while promoting positive outcomes for all stakeholders involved.

LuckyTruck

Seed Round in 2022
LuckyTruck operates an innovative digital platform designed to streamline the process of buying, selling, and managing commercial trucking insurance. This all-in-one solution provides a user-friendly experience for clients, offering cloud-based business management tools alongside insurance services, maintenance tracking, operational support, and networking opportunities. Through this platform, clients can efficiently obtain personalized quotes and effectively manage their trucking insurance needs.

b atomic!

Seed Round in 2022
B Atomic is an insurance technology developer focused on empowering independent agents by leveraging their data to enhance customer experiences. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Broadview Heights, Ohio, the company's platform serves as a fully connected ecosystem, facilitating real-time communication and providing essential data points for marketing, sales, and operations. By integrating seamlessly with various tools, B Atomic enables agents to create memorable interactions for their clients while ensuring that insurance carriers can easily connect and support these efforts.
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