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Sixfold and Sollers team up on AI underwriting. August 14, 2026 Sixfold, the AI underwriting InsurTech trusted by global insurers, has entered a strategic partnership with Sollers Consulting, the international insurance technology consultancy, aimed at helping carriers speed up their underwriting transformation. The tie-up brings together Sixfold's AI-driven risk assessment capabilities with Sollers' consulting and implementation know-how, giving insurers a combined offering of AI, advisory support and technology delivery under one transformation programme. The two firms will jointly support insurer modernisation projects across Europe, the UK and North America, enabling carriers to automate the intake of submissions, evaluate risk against their own appetite, and receive clear, explainable underwriting recommendations without needing to step outside their current systems and workflows. Several joint engagements are already under way, each shaped around the specific technology and underwriting needs of the insurer involved. Sixfold's existing client base includes major P&C and L&H insurers such as Zurich, Skyward Specialty, AXIS and Generali GC&C. The firm has so far processed upwards of 1.5 million submissions spanning more than 50 lines of business, with customers reporting processing speed gains of between 50% and 97%, hit ratios climbing by at least 15%, and gross written premium per underwriter rising by as much as 30%. Rather than displacing insurers' existing underwriting infrastructure, the platform is designed to work alongside it. Sixfold's technology is built to work through submissions in a manner comparable to an experienced underwriter, flagging recommendations before a file is even reviewed by a person. Its pre-loaded underwriting expertise and ability to integrate with tools already in use mean it can start delivering results immediately. The company serves L&H and P&C carriers, MGAs and reinsurers across North America, South America, Europe and Australia, counting Guardian and New York Life among its customers. Sixfold Head of Partnerships Roger Ferrandis said, "Insurers should not have to replace the systems their underwriters already use to get value from AI. Sixfold works within those systems and comes with underwriting knowledge built in from day one. Sollers know how those systems are set up and used. Together, that gets insurers to better underwriting results faster." Sollers Head of Underwriting Jakub Śliwiński said, "We've built Sollers' underwriting practice around the belief that the right technology, applied to the right part of the process, delivers outstanding results. Sixfold makes submission handling faster, more consistent and more intelligent. Together, we can help insurers achieve measurable results quickly while laying the foundations for underwriting transformation." Enjoying the stories? Investors. The following investor(s) were tagged in this article.

Sixfold raises $30M Series B. Sixfold raises $30M in a Series B round led by Brewer Lane to scale its agentic AI underwriting platform for global insurance carriers. Updated June 14, 2026 Sixfold, an insurtech company providing an AI underwriting platform for insurance carriers, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round. This new capital brings the company total funding to more than $50 million. The startup focuses on providing agentic AI components that integrate with existing underwriting workbenches and policy administration systems to streamline underwriting flows. Investors. The funding round was led by Brewer Lane, with strategic investment from Guidewire and participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. Sixfold use of funds. The company plans to use the new capital to accelerate the development of its AI underwriting product, expand research and engineering efforts for its autonomous underwriting agents, and scale its commercial operations across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Australia. About Sixfold. Founded by Alex Schmelkin and Jane Tran, Sixfold provides an AI platform designed to automate and augment the underwriting process for insurers. The software integrates directly into existing carrier workflows to improve quote response times and underwriting efficiency without requiring changes to core systems. Funding details. Company: Sixfold Raised: $30M Round: Series B Funding Date: June 12, 2026 Lead Investor: Brewer Lane Additional Investors: Guidewire, Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures Company Website: https://sixfold.ai Software Category: Insurtech Source: https://letsdatascience.com/news/sixfold-secures-30-million-series-b-funding-c26ace54 Updated June 14, 2026

Exclusive: Sixfold launches AI underwriting agent with straight-through quote and bind capability. By James Thaler Published: Fri 12 Jun 2026 Insurtech Sixfold is launching the AI Underwriter, an agent that learns an individual carrier's book and appetite, recommends the next action on each submission and can be configured to take cases straight through to quote-ready and bind-ready materials. The AI Underwriter will be available to P&C insurers from Monday, Sixfold confirmed in a statement to The Insurer. The agent feeds every decision an insurer's underwriters make back into that carrier's deployment, building what Sixfold describes as institutional memory that existing data ingestion, policy and workbench systems have not been built to capture. Each insurer's book is walled off, and one carrier's data is never used to train another's system. Each carrier weighs how much of the work the agent handles autonomously. When configured for straight-through processing, cases can be processed into quote-ready and bind-ready output for acceptance by a broker or client. The customer's underwriters provide direction, judgment and oversight, remaining accountable for how the agent is governed. Sixfold's customers represent $270 billion in gross written premium and include Skyward Specialty, Zurich Insurance, Generali Global Corporate & Commercial, Guardian, Axis and New York Life. The company has processed more than 1.5 million submissions across more than 50 lines of business since 2023. Sixfold said its customers have historically seen processing times improve by between 50% and 97% and hit ratios rise by 15% or more, with gross written premium per underwriter climbing by up to 30%, gains the company chalks up to its platform. The insurtech also reported underwriting adoption rates of 90% or higher, measured as actual users against expected users. Founder and CEO Alex Schmelkin said the product was built around what underwriters need at the moment a submission arrives, rather than documents bouncing between systems or static dashboards. "They don't need a digitized version of the application, broker documents moved from their inbox to another system, or a dashboard with data that was current last week," Schmelkin said. "Data ingestion and workflow solutions are trying to heal the symptoms of inefficient underwriting without affecting the cause. "Instead, our users told us that what they need is to understand the risk in the full context of their current book, the broker, and the guidelines, and to be presented with a clear next step. Right there, at the moment a decision is being made. That is what the AI Underwriter does." When a submission comes in, the agent extracts and cleans the data, identifies missing information, evaluates appetite and portfolio fit and draws on what it has learned about the broker and risk class before producing a recommendation, explaining its rationale and suggesting a next step. The system is built around what Sixfold calls its underwriting brain, developed over three years alongside some of the world's largest insurers. The underwriting brain arrives trained on the standards behind professional underwriting credentials, underwriter reasoning patterns and a curated ground truth library, helping it work across lines of business and industries. A select group of insurers worked with the agent on live submissions ahead of the launch, with Sixfold reporting that it performed the majority of the underwriting analysis required to evaluate submissions within Skyward Specialty's E&S brokerage property business. Its responsible AI program was built from the bottom up, spanning governance controls and regulatory engagement, so that every deployment begins with trust from carrier risk and compliance teams, the company said. John Burkhart, Skyward Specialty's president of U.S. property and casualty, said the carrier is incorporating the agent into its bionic underwriting strategy as it looks for partners that can scale alongside the business and free underwriters to focus on what they do best. "We are equipping our underwriters with richer context that enhances their decision-making while keeping human expertise firmly at the center of the process," Burkhart said. Matthew Richardson, global head of operations and IT at Generali GC&C, said the product is built alongside underwriters, shaped by how the job works in practice and fast enough to change quoting timelines. "Sixfold helps us quote risks in minutes instead of days or in some cases weeks," he said. Sixfold raised $30 million in Series B funding in January. The round was led by Brewer Lane and included strategic investment from Guidewire, alongside existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures, as The Insurer previously reported. The raise, which funded development of the AI Underwriter, took the New York-based company's total funding to more than $50 million, following a $15 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures in 2024. The launch adds to a wave of efforts to embed AI directly inside carrier underwriting operations, where submissions still move through a maze of legacy systems and manual workflows. Schmelkin co-founded Sixfold in 2023 with chief operating officer Jane Tran and chief technology officer Brian Moseley, with the company's wider platform supporting both P&C and life and health underwriting across North America, South America, the UK, Europe and Australia.