Pie Insurance Lands $315M in Funding to Provide Small Businesses with Workers’ Comp Insurance

Workers’ comp insurance is vital to every worker because it provides them with security and financial aid when they need it most, such as when they are injured or become such on the job. Pie Insurance looks to make getting workers’ comp insurance easy, focusing on small businesses and reliable, affordable coverage that anyone can get quickly. Learn more about Pie’s plans for its Series D funding in the following press release.

Pie Insurance (“Pie”), an insurtech company specializing in workers’ comp insurance for small businesses, today announced it raised a $315 million Series D round of funding. The round was led by Centerbridge Partners and Allianz X, the digital investments arm of Allianz Group. White Mountains Insurance Group also joined as a new investor, and previous investors Gallatin Point Capital, Greycroft, Acrew Capital and others also participated in the round. 

Today’s Series D fundraise more than doubled Pie’s total capital raised to over $615 million and is the largest round of financing for any U.S. based P&C insurtech company in 2022. 

“This round of financing is monumental in more ways than one,” said John Swigart, co-founder and CEO of Pie. “It’s no secret that growth-stage startups, and specifically insurtechs, are facing a challenging fundraising environment. However, Pie’s ability to grow rapidly while still focusing on delivering strong unit economics and sustainable loss ratios, is proving to be a key differentiator. Pie is disrupting the highly fragmented small business commercial insurance market through our proprietary technology which more accurately prices and underwrites insurance risks. We believe the insurtech 2.0 phase of this industry-wide transformation will be built by companies like Pie that leverage their technology to ‘do the insurance better’ and deliver superior traditional insurance metrics along with a delightful customer experience.”

“Pie’s demonstrated ability to grow across multiple distribution channels at impressive loss ratios truly distinguishes them within the insurtech space,” said Eric Hoffman, Managing Director at Centerbridge Partners. “We’re attracted to technology enablement in the small commercial insurance market, and Centerbridge is excited to partner with Pie on its journey to transform the industry.”

“Since our founding in 2017, Pie’s mission has been to empower small businesses to thrive by making commercial insurance affordable and as easy as pie,” Swigart continued. “This fundraise allows us to strategically expand in a way that serves the long-term interests of our customers, partners, investors, and Pie-oneers. Pie has an exciting future ahead and this capital allows us to stay true to our values, execute on our vision, and build a lasting and sustainable business.”

Pie’s Series D enables the company to continue providing America’s 32.5 million small businesses with access to simple and affordable commercial insurance. The company will use the funds to support Pie’s growth initiatives that directly impact its small business customers, including expanding into new lines of business, fully transitioning to a full-stack carrier, further innovating upon its advanced proprietary pricing algorithms, and delivering world-class user and product experiences directly to small businesses and the partner agents who serve them. 

“We’ve been continuously impressed by Pie’s innovation and ability to deliver strong growth and underwriting results since our relationship began with co-leading the company’s Series C round in early-2021,” said Dr. Nazim Cetin, CEO of Allianz X. “We’ll be there to support Pie every step of the way as the company continues its bold transformation to a full-stack insurer and expansion into new lines of business.”

Today’s fundraise follows an incredible period of growth for Pie, most recently the company announced it more than doubled its gross written premium, and doubled its number of policyholders and partners. In addition, Pie expanded its coverage area into two new states, increasing its total workers’ comp coverage footprint to 89 percent of small businesses in the U.S.

Ardea Partners served as an advisor on the Series D. Kirkland & Ellis LLP acted as a legal advisor to Centerbridge Partners, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP acted as a legal advisor to Allianz X, and Cooley LLP acted as a legal advisor to Pie.

The original press release can be found on Pie Insurance’s website.