Singaporean Insurtech Surer Raises US$1 Million in Seed Funding Round
by Fintech News Singapore October 14, 2021Surer, a Singaporean cloud-based insurtech platform, announced that it has raised US$1 million during a seed funding round.
The insurtech raised the funds from Norwegian private investment company Kistefos, global specialist insurer Markel Corporation through its insurtech investing arm, Markel Digital Investments, and an angel investor.
Antler, a global early-stage venture capital firm, also invested in Surer in an earlier round.
With the new funds, Surer intends to bolster its core technology platform and invest in its tech team to deliver on its product roadmap.
Since its launch, Surer said that it has over 350 intermediary signups and demo requests, more than 1,000 insurance proposals sent and over S$1.2 million in gross written premiums (GWP) transacted on its platform.
Surer expects to see the GWP transacted on its platform to cross the S$2 million mark by the end of 2021.
Launched in September 2020, Surer’s platform that has created a digital ecosystem where insurance intermediaries and insurers can leverage its technology to supercharge workflows, processes, recruitment and distribution of products.
Gordon Tay
“With the new funds, we believe Surer can further capitalise on our unique position to build a fully connected digital ecosystem that drives a ‘triple-win’ situation where policyholders can be served with greater quality because of a highly efficient intermediary sales force that can now scale their business without impediments which ultimately delivers more business for insurers. This digital ecosystem will eventually include merchants who wish to package insurance with the products they are selling.”
said Gordon Tay, Co-founder of Surer.
