Top Headlines from Mar 16–22, 2026
Subscribe on LinkedInLevitate has raised $16 million in a funding round led by Harbert Growth Partners, with participation from Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures and Bull City Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $71 million. Founded in 2017, Levitate offers an AI-powered relationship marketing platform used by ~8,000 businesses, focused on helping companies maintain consistent and personalized communication with clients and prospects.
Obin AI raised $7 million in seed funding led by Motive Partners as it emerged from stealth to launch its enterprise AI platform for financial institutions. The platform is designed to deploy AI agents that support workflows such as risk assessment, underwriting and capital allocation, with a focus on accuracy, auditability and regulatory alignment in financial services environments.
Insurance pricing and reserving platform Akur8 has acquired Slope Software, an all-in-one actuarial modeling platform for life insurers and pension firms. The transaction expands Akur8’s offering beyond P&C into the life and annuity market. Founded in 2015 in Atlanta, Slope Software has built a strong customer base including tier-one life insurers, reinsurers, and consulting firms.
Cytora launched Cytora Autopilot, a new agentic AI capability designed to automate underwriting and claims workflows across its digital risk processing platform. Autopilot is intended to allow insurers to run risk workflows from submission through decision with minimal manual intervention. The system aggregates and interprets data from emails, documents, calls and other sources, linking information that may arrive at different times to create a consolidated view of each risk.
Convr introduced a generative AI capability within its underwriting workbench designed to support analysis of commercial insurance submissions and streamline underwriting workflows. The AI assistant is embedded directly into the platform and enables underwriters to review submission data, generate summaries and take actions such as updating submissions or initiating tasks within the same environment.
Millennial Shift Technologies announced the launch of Quantum AI, a platform designed to support commercial insurance operations by structuring submission data and automating workflows. The platform focuses on converting unstructured submissions—such as emails, PDFs, and spreadsheets—into structured data for underwriting and risk evaluation. It also introduces AI agents that assist with tasks including submission follow-ups, broker communication, and portfolio monitoring.
Gradient AI launched ClaimVoyant, an AI-driven triage tool designed to help workers’ compensation carriers, TPAs, and self-insured employers identify potentially complex or high-cost claims at first notice of loss. The solution analyzes FNOL data to assess claim complexity, including the impact of comorbidities and underlying health conditions, which can increase claim costs by three to four times.
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