IA Capital Group

IA Capital Group, established in 1992 and headquartered in New York, is a private equity firm specializing in venture capital investments. It focuses on the insurtech and fintech sectors, targeting early and growth-stage companies in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The firm invests between $1.5 million and $10 million, typically taking majority or minority stakes in companies with sales exceeding $2 million. IA Capital's portfolio spans various sub-sectors, including payments, financial infrastructure, insurance technology, lending, and wealth management. Additionally, the firm manages strategic venture capital programs for multiple insurers and incubates new companies.

Richie Carchia

Analyst

Robert M.Lichten

Advisory Partner

Matt Perlman

Partner

Ravi Shah

Vice President

Rick Viton

Partner

Past deals in Risk Management

Delos Insurance

Series A in 2024
Delos Insurance is a digital property insurer serving homeowners in catastrophe-prone regions where traditional carriers are scarce or expensive. The company addresses underwriting challenges driven by low-resolution catastrophe models that cause insurers to pull back from high-risk markets. Leveraging deep expertise in data science and aerospace engineering, Delos develops high-resolution catastrophe models and a home risk-rating system to improve risk assessment. Its platform combines climate and catastrophe modeling with patented artificial intelligence risk models to underwrite comprehensive policies and deliver risk-mitigation services where others have exited. By actively managing client risk and innovating on product design, Delos helps homeowners prepare for likely perils and obtain more reliable coverage in high-risk areas.

Summit

Seed Round in 2024
Summit is an insurance brokerage and risk management agency that specializes in providing bespoke insurance and risk management solutions to businesses.

Delos Insurance

Seed Round in 2023
Delos Insurance is a digital property insurer serving homeowners in catastrophe-prone regions where traditional carriers are scarce or expensive. The company addresses underwriting challenges driven by low-resolution catastrophe models that cause insurers to pull back from high-risk markets. Leveraging deep expertise in data science and aerospace engineering, Delos develops high-resolution catastrophe models and a home risk-rating system to improve risk assessment. Its platform combines climate and catastrophe modeling with patented artificial intelligence risk models to underwrite comprehensive policies and deliver risk-mitigation services where others have exited. By actively managing client risk and innovating on product design, Delos helps homeowners prepare for likely perils and obtain more reliable coverage in high-risk areas.

Frontier Risk

Seed Round in 2023
Frontier Risk is a specialized insurance solution provider for the cannabis industry. It offers tech-enabled insurance services, tailored advice from former cannabis executives, and digital platforms for optimal risk management.

Certificial

Series B in 2023
Certificial is an insurance verification platform that streamlines the supplier management and certificate issuance processes. By providing businesses with real-time access to suppliers' insurance coverage, it ensures that companies can easily monitor compliance and updates regarding changes in coverage. The platform integrates seamlessly with brokers' and AMS providers' APIs, making it accessible for both large and small agents and brokers at no cost to insurers. Certificial's features include immediate information retrieval, historical records of business relationships, and compliance alerts, which help mitigate risks associated with fraud, misinformation, and coverage lapses.

Axio

Series B in 2022
Axio, established in 2016, specializes in SaaS-based cyber risk management software and IT consulting services. Its flagship platform, Axio360, helps security leaders, business executives, and board members align on and quantify cyber risks in financial terms, enabling data-driven decisions about security priorities and investments. Axio serves leading critical infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, and financial services companies, providing services such as cyber resilience optimization, exposure quantification, insurance analysis, and cyber program evaluation. Additionally, Axio offers IT consulting services, including project management, risk management, and quality assurance, to help clients in telecom, energy, defense, and health industries maximize IT project value.

Cloudwall

Seed Round in 2022
Cloudwall is a digital asset risk platform designed to assist institutional investors in navigating the complexities of the digital asset marketplace. The company aims to accelerate the blockchain economy by facilitating capital flow to builders and innovators in the sector. Cloudwall's platform enables institutional investors to effectively manage their digital asset portfolios, aligning with their investment and risk objectives. Through its expertise in fintech and research, Cloudwall is committed to providing valuable insights and tools that support informed decision-making in the evolving landscape of digital assets.

reThought Insurance

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2017, reThought Insurance is a specialized managing general agency focused on commercial flood insurance. It leverages proprietary underwriting methodology and risk assessment technology to visualize, assess, price, and underwrite commercial flood risks for enterprises.

Demex

Series A in 2021
Demex is a data and analytics company that partners with insurance industry players to mitigate frequent property losses from secondary perils. It models loss accumulation based on weather and claims data, informed by climate research, offering parametric stop-loss solutions tailored to insurers' needs.

Delos Insurance

Seed Round in 2021
Delos Insurance is a digital property insurer serving homeowners in catastrophe-prone regions where traditional carriers are scarce or expensive. The company addresses underwriting challenges driven by low-resolution catastrophe models that cause insurers to pull back from high-risk markets. Leveraging deep expertise in data science and aerospace engineering, Delos develops high-resolution catastrophe models and a home risk-rating system to improve risk assessment. Its platform combines climate and catastrophe modeling with patented artificial intelligence risk models to underwrite comprehensive policies and deliver risk-mitigation services where others have exited. By actively managing client risk and innovating on product design, Delos helps homeowners prepare for likely perils and obtain more reliable coverage in high-risk areas.

Certificial

Series A in 2021
Certificial is an insurance verification platform that streamlines the supplier management and certificate issuance processes. By providing businesses with real-time access to suppliers' insurance coverage, it ensures that companies can easily monitor compliance and updates regarding changes in coverage. The platform integrates seamlessly with brokers' and AMS providers' APIs, making it accessible for both large and small agents and brokers at no cost to insurers. Certificial's features include immediate information retrieval, historical records of business relationships, and compliance alerts, which help mitigate risks associated with fraud, misinformation, and coverage lapses.

Newmetrix

Venture Round in 2020
Newmetrix is a technology company that specializes in a cloud-based video management platform aimed at reducing risks on construction sites through the integration of human and artificial intelligence. The platform employs machine learning to analyze images and videos from construction projects, categorizing them with construction-specific tags. This functionality addresses key challenges related to the management, collaboration, search, and analysis of industrial visual content, thereby enhancing safety and operational efficiency for clients in the construction industry.

Demex

Seed Round in 2020
Demex is a data and analytics company that partners with insurance industry players to mitigate frequent property losses from secondary perils. It models loss accumulation based on weather and claims data, informed by climate research, offering parametric stop-loss solutions tailored to insurers' needs.

Axio

Series A in 2020
Axio, established in 2016, specializes in SaaS-based cyber risk management software and IT consulting services. Its flagship platform, Axio360, helps security leaders, business executives, and board members align on and quantify cyber risks in financial terms, enabling data-driven decisions about security priorities and investments. Axio serves leading critical infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, and financial services companies, providing services such as cyber resilience optimization, exposure quantification, insurance analysis, and cyber program evaluation. Additionally, Axio offers IT consulting services, including project management, risk management, and quality assurance, to help clients in telecom, energy, defense, and health industries maximize IT project value.

Crown Global Insurance Group

Venture Round in 2015
Crown Global Insurance Group, LLC specializes in providing tailored insurance solutions for high net-worth individuals, hedge funds, private equity firms, and institutional investors around the globe. Established in 1994 and headquartered in New York, with additional locations in North America, the Cayman Islands, and Switzerland, the company has built a strong reputation for structuring compliant variable life insurance and annuity policies. Its product offerings include private placement life insurance, group annuity contracts, fund advisor benefit plans, and private placement variable immediate annuities. Crown Global is managed by a team of experienced professionals, collectively possessing over a century of expertise in investment, tax planning, wealth management, and asset preservation, allowing them to effectively serve the complex needs of their clients.

Talbot Holdings

Series B in 2004
Talbot Holdings, Ltd. is a specialty insurance group that operates within the Lloyd's insurance market, focusing on underwriting various specialty risks. The company has established strong franchises in marine and energy lines, war and political risks, direct property, and financial institutions, as well as contingency and treaty underwriting. Incorporated in Bermuda, Talbot's management team is based in London. In July 2007, the company was acquired by Validus Holdings Ltd. for $410 million.

GMI Ratings

Series A in 2002
GovernanceMetrics International (GMI Ratings) is an independent organization based in Portland, Maine, specializing in corporate governance and executive compensation analysis. The company employs a range of proprietary metrics and mathematical algorithms to assess corporate governance policies and practices. GMI Ratings offers essential investment decision support tools, including Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings, to a diverse clientele that includes asset managers, banks, hedge funds, and pension funds. By providing comprehensive insights into governance structures, GMI Ratings enables investors to make informed financial decisions. Established through the merger of GovernanceMetrics and The Corporate Library in 2010, the company has positioned itself as a key resource in the field of governance analysis.

SafeRent Solutions

Series C in 2001
SafeRent provides quality information to empower good leasing decisions, reduce bad debt, and mitigate risk. They also help to manage risk associated with lease defaults.

CoreLogic

Series C in 2001
CoreLogic is a data analytics company that provides property data, analytics, and risk assessment solutions to the real estate, mortgage, and financial services sectors. It combines public, contributory and proprietary data to deliver predictive decision analytics, support underwriting and investment decisions, and help prevent fraud. CoreLogic offers property information and services that cover appraisal and valuation, property tax, flood determination, geospatial analytics, and mortgage and automotive credit reporting, enabling lenders, insurers and government agencies to gain insights and improve business performance in their daily operations. The company serves a global client base and is headquartered in Santa Ana, California.
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