Vouch Closes $90 Million in New Funding

<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<&sol;strong>  &&num;8212&semi; Vouch&comma; a provider of business insurance for startups&comma; has closed &dollar;90 million in new funding and announced it is the preferred business insurance provider to Brex&comma; Carta&comma; and WeWork customers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Vouch has also closed on &dollar;90 million of new funding&comma; established its own authorized insurance carrier&comma; and also expanded its line of insurance products&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Vouch reports 7X customer growth year over year and has doubled employee headcount&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new capital raised gives Vouch the ability to invest in technical capabilities&comma; build embedded insurance with its partners and create a seamless experience for their clients&period; These two rounds of financing bring Vouch’s total funding to &dollar;160 million&period; The rounds were anchored by Redpoint Ventures&comma; Silicon Valley Bank Capital&comma; Ribbit Capital&comma; Allegis Group&comma; Sound Ventures&comma; and SiriusPoint&period; Vouch is a Y Combinator graduate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As operating climates change&comma; startups need access to business insurance that covers emerging risks&period; From 2020 to 2021&comma; Vouch also saw a change in how their startup clients’ teams were distributed&semi; before the pandemic&comma; 29&period;9&percnt; of startup teams were remote and this shifted to 53&period;2&percnt; during the pandemic&period; In response&comma; Vouch developed a broader range of insurance coverages&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Vouch also announces an expanded line of proprietary products and services for startups including&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ol class&equals;"bwlistdecimal">&NewLine;<li><b>Work From Anywhere coverage<&sol;b>— Vouch has adapted business property insurance for the modern&comma; hybrid work environment with Work From Anywhere insurance&period; This first-of-its-kind coverage can insure<i> <&sol;i>up to &dollar;500&comma;000 in limit per occurrence&comma; to include specified<i> <&sol;i>property owned by a startup regardless of the location of that property&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b>Broader cyber coverages for tech companies&colon; <&sol;b>With the rise of ransomware and cyberattacks on businesses&comma; Vouch now offers a bricking endorsement&comma; enhanced coverage for business outages caused by cyber attacks&comma; and more comprehensive cyber crime coverage&comma; which can cover losses due to fraud&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b>Comprehensive coverages for early to mid-stage startups<&sol;b>— Vouch expands its underwriting capabilities to serve early-stage to growth market startups&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b>Embedded insurance<&sol;b>— Vouch is developing embedded insurance to partner with startup leaders to make buying insurance more accessible for customers&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ol>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our recent rounds of funding ensure that Vouch can better serve startups&period; Today we are partnering with industry leading startups and innovators Brex&comma; Carta&comma; and WeWork to enable founders to scale their companies without worrying that their business coverage may fall short&comma;” said Sam Hodges&comma; Co-Founder and CEO of Vouch&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;How can we help founders worry less about their biggest risks and focus on driving the changes they want to see&quest; It’s our responsibility to meet startup founders where they are&comma; and give startups flexibility as they navigate changing laws&comma; regulations&comma; and the virtual and physical locations of their businesses&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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