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title: "Seven Hundred Basis Points: How Pibit.AI Is Turning An Insurance Talent Crisis Into Profit"
description: San Francisco insurtech Pibit.AI raises seven million in Series A funding as its agentic AI speeds underwriting by 85% and improves loss ratios by 700 bps.
author: Darie Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2025-11-20T13:28:13.000Z
updated: 2026-04-01T12:06:41.895Z
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    name: Pibit.AI
    description: "Pibit.AI is an SF–based insurtech company reconstructing the art (and science) of commercial underwriting for carriers and MGAs. At the heart is the CURE™ platform, the industry’s only centralized underwriting risk environment fueled by agentic underwriting services that delivers decision-ready outcomes. It converts submissions into decisions by automating intake, triage, and data enrichment from documents and external sources while surfacing risk insights so you can win the right accounts faster, scale throughput, and reduce loss ratios.\n\nBacked by Y-Combinator, the proprietary platform serves dozens of clients across the US, enabling 85% faster underwriting, 32% increase in GWP per underwriter, and up to 700 basis points improvement in loss ratios. For details, visit pibit.ai ."
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[Pibit.AI](#about-pibit-ai) just closed a $7 million Series A, and the San Francisco insurtech has numbers that most AI companies can only promise: customers reporting 700 basis points of improvement in loss ratios, a 32% increase in gross written premium per underwriter and underwriting cycles that run 85% faster. For an industry where [good loss ratios sit between 40% and 60%](https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/financial-services/library/performance-measurement.html) and break-even hovers around 60%, a seven percentage point improvement means the difference between staying in a market and walking away from it entirely. For a mid-sized carrier writing $100 million in premium annually, that improvement translates to $7 million in additional underwriting profit each year.

Pibit.AI’s CURE platform sits at the centre of these results, converting messy insurance submissions into structured data and analysis. The company now has more than 125 employees, dozens of customers including HDVI, Shepherd Insurance, RMS Insurance Brokerage, Kinetic and Method Insurance Company, and funding led by Stellaris Venture Partners with participation from Y Combinator and Arali Ventures.

## The Talent Shortage Driving Adoption

The underwriting profession faces a reckoning. The Chartered Insurance Institute’s 2024 Talent Shortage Crisis report described the sector as ‘stale, pale and male’, an industry struggling to attract new blood whilst [around 400,000 workers are expected to retire or leave by 2026](https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/us-insurance-sector-to-lose-around-400000-workers-by-2026-466593.aspx). About 50% of the current workforce will exit within 15 years. Underwriters spend up to a third of their time on manual data entry, triaging submissions and enriching data from disparate sources. Some 52% of insurance employers cite a shortage of suitable candidates as their biggest hiring challenge, according to industry employment data.

The pattern mirrors challenges across traditional industries where [AI automation is addressing workforce gaps](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/superdial-s-15m-bet-will-voice-ai-finally-cut-us-healthcare-s-phone-bill), from healthcare administration to insurance underwriting. [AI-focused insurtech companies captured approximately](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/mantas-is-turning-cloud-outages-into-an-insurable-financial-risk) 75% of Q3 2025 insurtech funding, which totalled $1.01 billion for the quarter. The money follows the problem.

## How CURE Works

Pibit.AI’s platform handles the full underwriting workflow from submission intake through risk analysis. ClearCURE triages incoming submissions, DocumentCURE parses documents and extracts data, ResearchCURE enriches accounts with external data sources, RiskCURE evaluates risk with portfolio-specific signals and WorkflowCURE consolidates every task and insight into a single interface.

The system relies on what [PwC calls agentic AI](https://fintechmagazine.com/news/capgemini-on-agentic-ai-how-are-fintechs-responding), a category of autonomous systems that can plan, act and learn independently rather than simply responding to prompts. This approach of [deploying AI agents for complex workflows](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/ai-agents-take-centre-stage-logicflo-s-2-7m-seed-backs-human-guided-automation-in-pharma) is gaining traction across regulated industries. More than half of insurance executives surveyed by PwC identified generative and agentic AI as the technological investments with the most potential to change how the industry operates over the next three years.

Pibit.AI built its approach around transparency and explainability rather than black box automation. ‘Pibit.AI was built around one idea: that AI should empower underwriters, not replace them,’ said Akash Agarwal, founder and chief executive. ‘Too many systems prioritise speed over trust. We’re building something that’s transparent, explainable and decision-ready – a system that gives underwriters confidence in every output whilst helping them move faster than ever before.’

## Production Deployments With Real Stakes

Method Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Cake Insure (itself a Pinnacol Assurance company), used Pibit.AI whilst scaling operations nationally. ‘As a fast-moving company scaling our operations nationally, Pibit.AI played a key role in ensuring we achieved that growth without losing control,’ said Michaela Morrison, chief operating officer at Method Insurance Services. ‘Our outcomes aren’t magic; they are the direct product of thoughtful engineering and a team that genuinely listens.’

Kinetic, which writes workers’ compensation coverage, processes serious volume through the platform. ‘Pibit.AI helps us to handle more than a billion dollars in submissions on an annual basis without scaling our overhead costs, and grow our business by close to 100% in premium because we’re able to get those looks and quotes up and running,’ said Adam Price, chief executive at Kinetic.

These are production systems handling [real underwriting decisions](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/general-magic-raises-7-2m-to-run-insurance-over-text) for companies with real balance sheets, not pilot programmes or proofs of concept. The distinction matters in an environment where [enterprise AI implementations often fail to move beyond testing phases](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/unifyapps-raises-50m-to-clean-up-enterprise-ai-s-40bn-graveyard).

## Why an India-Focused VC Bet on US Insurtech

Stellaris Venture Partners led the Series A despite being primarily focused on Indian markets. The firm manages over $600 million in assets and is currently investing from its third fund of $300 million, with a portfolio spanning SaaS, financial services, B2B commerce and healthcare companies including Mamaearth, Whatfix and Propelld.

‘Underwriting has long been constrained by manual reviews, inconsistent data and tools that haven’t kept pace with rising submission volumes,’ said Alok Goyal, partner at Stellaris Venture Partners. ‘With CURE, Pibit.AI automates and unifies these workflows, improving accuracy, reducing costs and accelerating quote generation to drive higher revenue. We’re excited to partner with Akash and lead Pibit.AI’s Series A round as it scales.’

The cross-border bet signals confidence that AI underwriting has moved beyond regional opportunity into a global market need.

## Where the Money Goes

Pibit.AI will invest the Series A proceeds in AI infrastructure, integrations, advanced risk models, API layers and deeper data partnerships. The roadmap includes making the CURE platform more adaptive to new lines of business and emerging risks, allowing carriers and MGAs to deploy the system across different underwriting portfolios without extensive customisation.

The focus on adaptability reflects broader trends in [AI platform development across industries](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/epiminds-agentic-ai-marketing-industry), where single-purpose tools are giving way to comprehensive automation suites.

## Margin Improvement at Scale

In an industry where [loss ratios above 70% signal serious trouble](https://www.thehortongroup.com/resources/a-good-vs-bad-loss-ratio/) and margins determine which markets carriers can afford to write, 700 basis points of improvement and 32% productivity gains aren’t just impressive metrics. They’re survival numbers. Pibit.AI’s traction suggests [AI underwriting has crossed](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/potpie-ai-raises-2-2-million-to-give-ai-agents-codebase-context) from experimental technology into operational requirements. Carriers still running manual underwriting processes face a timing problem: the talent to staff traditional workflows is disappearing whilst the economics demand better margins.

**About Pibit.AI**

Pibit.AI is an SF–based insurtech company reconstructing the art (and science) of commercial underwriting for carriers and MGAs. At the heart is the CURE™ platform, the industry’s only centralized underwriting risk environment fueled by agentic underwriting services that delivers decision-ready outcomes. It converts submissions into decisions by automating intake, triage, and data enrichment from documents and external sources while surfacing risk insights so you can win the right accounts faster, scale throughput, and reduce loss ratios.

Backed by Y-Combinator, the proprietary platform serves dozens of clients across the US, enabling 85% faster underwriting, 32% increase in GWP per underwriter, and up to 700 basis points improvement in loss ratios. For details, visit pibit.ai .

[Website](http://pibit.ai/)