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AI-Native specialty insurance company
Hedge is an AI-Native specialty insurance company. We help insurance brokers find faster, cheaper, and better coverage for their customers.
Hedge Insurance is a specialty insurance company focusing on hard-to-place commercial risks, offering direct broker access and dedicated teams to place E&S coverage across multiple classes. They emphasize fast Turnaround, transparency, and a workflow designed around named contacts rather than portals. Their model centers on placing niche risks through a curated set of markets and in-house underwriters.
The product workflow involves intake of a submission (via email or existing workflow), placement with curated admitted and non-admitted markets including Lloyd's and specialty MGAs, real-time status updates on a single file, and quick binding with clean binders and policy delivery. They offer a broad appetite across property, liability, cyber, professional, management liability, employment practices, environmental, and more, with dedicated brokers assigned to each account for continuity from intake through delivery.
Who it’s for: Retail agencies and brokers seeking hard-to-place commercial risks across specialty lines, including cat-exposed property, distressed cyber, and thin-file professional risks.
Hiring/expansion mentions (growth in lines and appetite), evidence of active brokerage partnerships and customer testimonials about turnaround
Building Hedge. Prev. founded Fernstone (AI-powered retail insurance brokerage), led a growth team at Traba (Series A, backed by Founders Fund), Head of Growth at Antimetal, cofounder at Contrast (acquired).
Building Hedge. Prev. Head of Scaled Systems at Traba (Series A, backed by Founders Fund, Khosla), replaced humans with AI agents to manage $20 MM+ in revenue. Econ at UChicago.
Helping brokers get faster and better coverage for their customers
Hedge streamlines specialty insurance quoting for brokers by rebuilding the wholesale distribution workflow with AI agents that pair with underwriting. The system addresses bottlenecks across multiple broker and carrier layers that typically require manual data re-entry.
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