Coalition Valued at $3.5 Billion With $205 Million Round

<p><b>SAN FRANCISCO —<&sol;b> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;coalitioninc&period;com&sol;"><u>Coalition<&sol;u><&sol;a>&comma; a cyber insurance and security company&comma; has raised &dollar;205 million to expand into new insurance lines and help organizations of all sizes remain secure in the face of increasing cyber threats&period; The new funding round was co-led by Durable Capital&comma; T&period; Rowe Price Associates and Whale Rock Capital&comma; with participation from the company’s existing investors&comma; valuing Coalition at more than &dollar;3&period;5 billion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Coalition serves over 52&comma;000 customers providing no-cost cybersecurity tools to prevent losses&comma; security and incident response services to contain them and comprehensive insurance to help organizations recover from failures and breaches&period; While a dramatic increase in the number of cyber incidents in 2021 has triggered higher losses for many major cyber insurance providers&comma; Coalition’s technology-first approach is powering a new&comma; more successful model of risk management&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are building a new kind of insurance with technology at its core&period; This is a dramatically different approach and it’s working&comma;” said Joshua Motta&comma; CEO and co-founder of Coalition&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Insurers need to do more than analyze cyber risk once a year&period; We scan our policyholders 65&comma;000 times a week&period; Our platform aggregates and analyzes data from every internet-addressable device inside a company&comma; scanning a policyholder’s assets to identify potential vulnerabilities so we can help minimize risks&period; We are setting a new standard for an industry that has been slow to unleash the full power of data&comma; and this has positioned our company for tremendous growth in the digital economy&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company reports crossing &dollar;325 million in run rate premium&comma; an 800&percnt; increase over the prior year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Coalition is solving a critical gap in the cyber risk and insurance space by aligning the right incentives&comma;” said Henry Ellenbogen&comma; CIO of Durable Capital Partners LP&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The team at Coalition has vastly outpaced the industry in its ability to leverage data and capture the lion’s share of tech and the technology-powered insurance market&period; We believe digital assets will soon be more valuable than physical assets placing Coalition firmly on the path toward long-term sustainable growth and value creation&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Coalition has raised over &dollar;500 million in equity funding to date from leading global technology investors&comma; including Durable Capital&comma; T&period; Rowe Price Associates Inc&comma; Whale Rock Capital&comma; Index Ventures&comma; General Atlantic&comma; Ribbit Capital&comma; Vy Capital and Valor Equity Partners&comma; among others&period; Founded in 2017 by Joshua Motta and John Hering&comma; Coalition is one of the largest cyber insurance and security providers in the United States and Canada&period; The investment follows long-term capacity commitments from leading global insurers <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;coalitioninc&period;com&sol;announcements&sol;Swiss-Re-Corporate-Solutions-and-Coalition-Extend-Strategic-Agreement"><u>Swiss Re<&sol;u><&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;coalitioninc&period;com&sol;announcements&sol;Arch-Insurance-Backs-Coalition-With-Long-term-Capacity-Across-Cyber-Insurance-Programs"><u>Arch Insurance<&sol;u><&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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