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billy

Construction insurance marketplace

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21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Marketplace
  • Insurance
  • Construction
Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY

Company mission

To make insurance fair, fast, and accessible for every contractor in America.

Our take

Consumer-facing neoinsurance providers have been booming over recent years. Its success has proven that offering an easy-access marketplace that streamlines policy purchasing is a winning model. Now, there’s a flurry of startups looking to carry that model over to more specific, B2B sectors. Billy is one such company and has its sights set on the trillion-dollar US construction industry.

Billy offers a SaaS platform from which construction industry stakeholders can purchase insurance policies, identify gaps in coverage, save on insurance costs, and manage all this from a single hub. This is a smart move: included in Billy’s addressable market are also companies with existing insurance, looking for a platform from which to manage it more efficiently. With digital transformation lagging in the construction industry, this management platform could prove a unique bonus.

It also helps set Billy apart from startup rivals in the space. Shepherd is one, offering a simpler insurance marketplace focusing on excess liability coverage and underwriting. Both are receiving healthy funding, indicating strong market confidence in the prospect of construction insurtech. With strong industry expertise, a unique product, and huge enterprise customers to play for, Billy’s prospects look good.

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Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • Wellness Reimbursement
  • Flexible Working Hours
  • Paid Time Off
  • Flexible Working Location
  • Company Offsites
  • Career Growth and Learning

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Mar 2024

$4.5m

SEED

Apr 2023

$2.5m

SEED

Total funding: $11.3m

Leadership

Began as a Senior Project Accountant at Plaza Construction, then worked as a senior financial analyst at Second Development Services. Subsequently took up senior product manager roles at Procore Technologies, WeWork, and Occupier.