Munich Re buys Israeli insurtech co Next at $2.6b valuation

In 2022, because the expertise market cooled and the insurtech sector went into decline, Israeli startup Subsequent Insurance coverage was compelled to put off staff. On the finish of 2023 it raised a big quantity, $365 million, however at a decrease valuation than in its earlier spherical, falling from $4 billion to $2.5 billion. Now, the corporate is being offered to considered one of its early traders, German insurance coverage company Munich Re at a barely greater valuation, $2.6 billion. The corporate has raised a complete of $1.17 billion, in keeping with the PitchBook database.

Munich Re is shopping for the 71% of Subsequent Insurance coverage that it doesn’t already personal, by means of Ergo Group, its major insurance coverage unit. The acquisition is a money deal.

Subsequent Insurance coverage develops and manages a digital platform for insuring small companies within the US. It was based 9 years in the past by Man Goldstein, Alon Huri, and Nissim Tapiro. On the time of its final fund elevating spherical in 2023 it reported that it had surpassed 500,000 lively prospects within the US by means of 1,300 various kinds of insurance coverage. Like one other Israeli insurtech firm, Lemonade, which is lively within the devour market, Subsequent Insurance coverage relies on synthetic intelligence and machine studying to hold out good underwriting and to approve inside minutes a coverage provide that matches the standards of small enterprise homeowners. In response to LinkedIn, the corporate employs 730 folks, 200 of them at its Kfar Sava headquarters.

Among the many traders within the firm, in keeping with PitchBook, are Oren Zeev, by means of Zeev Ventures, Dovi Frances’s Group 11, TLV Companions, and extra these days Redpoint Ventures, Nationwide Ventures, CapitalG, and a number of other monetary establishments, amongst them Financial institution Hapoalim, Migdal, and Psagot.

The final spherical additionally introduced in two strategic traders: US insurance coverage firm Allstate and Allianz X, the digital funding arm of German insurance coverage firm Allianz. Allianz X helped Subsequent Insurance coverage to achieve reinsurers, and thereby enhance its profitability.

Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on March 20, 2025.

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