Newfront

Digital insurance brokerage

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501-1000 employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Insurance
  • Big data
South Beach, San Francisco, CA

Company mission

Their mission is to bring insurance into the 21st century, innovating and transforming the industry on behalf of its customers.

Top investors

1% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Newfront Insurance is an insurance broker offering tech-driven risk management and insurance cover for businesses. It claims to provide fairer premiums using rich datasets to assess risk rather than the more traditional method of risk categories. The insurance industry has been slow to embrace digital innovation, but Newfront is a new insurtech firms aiming to transform the industry.

Spike Lipkin, CEO, was part of the original team at Opendoor and helped guide the start-up to a $3 billion valuation. At Opendoor, Lipkin experienced firsthand the difficulty of securing business insurance and recognized that the industry would greatly benefit from the use of AI. Newfront's ethos is customer-focused, and it aims to provide a fairer, more accessible experience for businesses.

Newfront merged with ABD Insurance, a B2B insurance provider focusing on employee benefits and financial services programs. Together, they are working to write $2 billion in premiums annually and occupy a more significant slice of the business insurance market. Funding is being invested into both US expansion and building the modern platform for clients, insurance professionals, and trading partners.

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Benefits

  • Insurance, Health & Wellness
  • Health Insurance
  • Financial & Retirement
  • 401K Plan
  • Family & Parenting
  • Work From Home
  • Vacation & Paid Time Off
  • Gym Membership
  • Commuter Checks & Assistance

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Apr 2022

$200m

LATE VC

Oct 2020

$100m

SERIES C

Total funding: $330.2m

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Leadership

After an MBA at Stanford, Spike spent a year as a Senior Consultant before 2 years at The Blackstone Group as an Investor. They left their role of 2 years at Opendoor.com in 2016 to co-found Newfront in 2017.

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