Insurance Investment M&A, investments, Venture Capital
Gilad Shai
Insurance & InsurTech Investment Report: ...

This wasn’t a big week. It was a decisive one.

Across six transactions, the signal is clear: insurance is consolidating around control—of data, distribution, capital, and underwriting.

From Counterpart taking risk onto its own balance sheet, to Northwestern Mutual turning venture into a distribution strategy, to Baldwin completing a fully integrated insurance stack—this is no longer about incremental innovation.

It’s about who owns the system

Insurance & InsurTech Investment Report: Week of April 27 – May 2, 2026
investments
Gilad Shai
Insurance and InsurTech Investments Report: ...

Capital this week flowed decisively toward AI-driven infrastructure and tightly integrated distribution models, with standout rounds in claims, TPA, and Medicare platforms. At the same time, both early-stage MGAs and scaled brokers attracted funding, reinforcing a market where owning workflow, data, and carrier alignment—not just distribution—defines competitive advantage.

Insurance and InsurTech Investments Report: April 6–10, 2026
investments
Gilad Shai
InsurTech and Insurance Capital Report: March ...

Overall Takeaway

This week’s deals reinforce a single theme:

Insurance is being re-architected around workflows, data, and capital.

  • AI is moving into decision-making layers

  • Infrastructure players are capturing control points

  • Private capital is reshaping balance sheets and distribution

The competitive edge is no longer distribution or brand.

It’s:

Who owns the workflow—and who controls the capital behind it.

InsurTech and Insurance Capital Report: March 23–27, 2026
investments
Gilad Shai
Insurance & InsurTech Investment Report: ...

~$657M flowed into insurance last week.

But the signal isn’t the capital — it’s the direction.

A €5B+ health platform scaling across Europe.
A control deal in embedded insurance.
Carriers investing in agent-facing AI.
$500M shifting into insurance-linked private credit.

This isn’t about disruption anymore.

It’s about who controls the system.

Insurance & InsurTech Investment Report: March 16–20, 2026
Gilad Shai
Insurance and InsurTech M&A deals: January ...

From January 26 to February 7, 2026, insurance and InsurTech M&A blended headline carrier moves with targeted distribution and tech plays. Meiji Yasuda and Radian closed multi‑billion‑dollar acquisitions that push them deeper into US term life and Lloyd’s specialty, while Zurich advanced an £8B bid for Beazley that could reshape the global cyber and specialty landscape. At the same time, WTW’s purchase of tech‑enabled broker Newfront, a string of regional roll‑ups by Hilb, WalkerHughes, Novacore, FMIG, Howden, Gallagher, Olea and K2, and intra‑InsurTech deals like HPN–Orange and Akur8–Matrisk show capital flowing toward distribution control, specialty underwriting and embedded AI capabilities

Insurance and InsurTech M&A deals: January 26 - February 7, 2026

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Bold Penguin, InsNerds at InsurTech LA

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The idea was to bring Ryan Hanley, CMO of Bold Penguin (at that time), to talk about Bold Penguin, Marketing and Commercial insurance. Ryan is a source of endless energy (check out his site https://ryanhanley.com/) that I wanted to introduce to the local scene.

Bold Penguin caters to agents and broker by providing them leads reselling their surplus leads. So, I asked Nick Lamparelli from InsNerds and Profile and Risk podcast to join the party.

We are trying something new here. Instead of us going to the tech event, we use technology to bring the tech event to everyone. In this episode of The Attachment Point, we broadcast the unedited version on Nick interviewing Ryan Hanley.

Thank you for ORACLE for hosting InsurTechLA event at their Santa Monica offices.

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