15 November 2019 Insurance

DataCubes raises $15.2m in Series B funding round

DataCubes, an underwriting decision platform for US commercial property and casualty (P&C) insurers, has closed a $15.2 million funding round led by New York-based venture capital and growth equity fund Palm Drive Capital. The funding will enable the insurtech startup to accelerate the insurance industry’s adoption of its AI-driven underwriting decisioning platform, grow its team and boost R&D.

DataCubes uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyse a broad array of information sources, including semi-structured insurance submissions and over four billion objects in its data lake.

Using these capabilities, DataCubes’ d3 Underwriting software platform enables commercial insurers to optimise their underwriting workflow processes for small and medium businesses and middle market risks in all standard commercial and specialty lines of business.

This latest round of funding will support DataCubes’ investment in research and development as well as helping to expand the team, adding 50 new employees in 2020, to further support its growing clientele of commercial insurers, which includes The Hanover, Selective Insurance, RLI, Columbia Insurance Group, Penn National Insurance, Tangram, WCF Insurance and Synergy Coverage Solutions among dozens more that have not yet been publicly announced.

“The old way of underwriting risks is a drain on both a carrier’s resources and the customer experience it is able to provide,” said Kuldeep Malik, CEO and co-founder, DataCubes. “This round of funding will give us a boost to support the demand we are seeing from the underwriting community to fix inefficiencies and drive better expense and loss ratio results.”

The Series B funding round, which was led by Palm Drive Capital, included participation from Altos Ventures, NFP Ventures, Stage 2 Capital, MPK Equity Partners and existing investors including Seyen Capital and MK Capital. In total, DataCubes has raised nearly $18 million in less than three years.

Nick Hsu, partner at Palm Drive Capital and member of DataCubes’ board of directors added: “DataCubes’ rapid growth is a testament to the fact that there is a better way to underwrite commercial P&C risks. Carriers that continue to do business as usual, will lose out to the modern carrier who will operate faster, more accurately and at a reduced cost.”

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