With Coverage

You build the future. We protect it

With CoverageAug 12, 2026

You build the future. We protect it

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WithCoverage is a New York based insurtech that replaces traditional commercial insurance brokers with a hybrid team of human risk advisors, attorneys, and claims specialists working alongside AI agents. It targets fast growing companies with meaningful insurance spend, the kind of businesses that outgrow generalist brokers but still get pushed into off the shelf policies. Co-founders JD Ross and Max Brenner are pairing industry experts with technology , with Ross previously co-founding Opendoor and Brenner having built Compound into a multi-billion-dollar investment advisory platform after starting his career at Bain . This launch introduces WithCoverage 2.0, positioned as an AI risk management team rather than a chatbot bolted onto a brokerage. The platform runs specialized agents against a client's book of business, a policy agent that reads coverage documents line by line, a claims agent that reviews prior incidents and losses, and a benchmark agent that compares pricing and terms against similar companies. Human experts then use those findings to rewrite exclusions, close coverage gaps, and put roughly 40 A-rated carriers into competition on renewal, all billed on a flat fee instead of the commission model that rewards brokers when premiums rise. The timing follows a $42 million Series B co-led by Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures, with participation from 8VC, Crystal Venture Partners, and Antifund , and comes as WithCoverage says it now protects more than $50 billion in annual revenue across over a thousand customers including Opendoor, GoPuff, and Polymarket. For founders and operators, the pitch is a single system of record for policies, claims, COIs, and renewals, run by a team that specializes in their industry rather than a broker juggling unrelated books.

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Priya KothariAug 12, 2026

The Opendoor to insurance pivot is one of those career moves that only makes sense in hindsight. Broker incumbents are absolutely cooked if the pitch lands even half as well as this tweet does.

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Lars B.Aug 12, 2026

That launch video pacing is a crime against attention spans, first 8 seconds could sell me a submarine. Whoever edited this deserves a raise or a restraining order.

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Femi AdebayoAug 12, 2026

ok wait, personally answering emails at jdross@ is either the most founder-mode move of the quarter or a great way to nuke your inbox. Betting on the former.

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Kavi RamanathanAug 12, 2026

Would love 10 minutes on the record about how you're handling carrier relationships without becoming a broker in a hoodie. Reply or DM whenever works.

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Tomasz WozniakAug 12, 2026

Curious what net revenue retention looks like when your clients are startups with a 40% mortality rate. Interesting though.

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Chenyu L.Aug 12, 2026

The $500B number is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that hook. What share of that is actually addressable by an AI-first broker versus enterprise deals locked up in 5-year contracts?

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reetaAug 12, 2026

How small is the team behind this? Modernizing insurance with less than 30 people would genuinely make me reconsider my life choices.

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Max PetrovAug 12, 2026

Hot take: the tweet structure (year, year, now) is going to get ripped off by every fintech founder within 72 hours. Genuinely clean copy though.

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Amara NwosuAug 12, 2026

Does WithCoverage have any kind of API for embedding coverage checks in a product? Asking because half my devtools friends would love to stop reading policy PDFs.

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Juan Pablo RestrepoAug 12, 2026

Any openings on the underwriting AI side? I know an actuary who left a big carrier last month and would eat glass to work on this.