FT Partners Advises Bold Penguin on its Acquisition of RiskGenius
Overview of Transaction
- On October 6, 2020, Bold Penguin announced its acquisition of RiskGenius, a pioneer in insurance document intelligence software
- The RiskGenius platform is an AI-driven, SaaS-based solution made specifically for the insurance industry; it applies machine learning to insurance policies, allowing users to rapidly understand terms of coverage across a library of policy documents including policy review, compliance, competitive analysis and emerging risk assessments
- Bold Penguin operates the largest commercial insurance exchange powering over 100,000 quote starts every month
- The acquisition will add RiskGenius’s data and analytics products along with its highly skilled and seasoned team
Significance of Transaction
- With this acquisition, RiskGenius will join Bold Penguin’s insurance intelligence effort, which leverages data and has a focus on intuitive workflow processing
- This is Bold Penguin’s second acquisition this year, continuing to build on its position as the market leader in the $300 billion commercial insurance space
FT Partners' Role
- FT Partners served as exclusive financial and strategic advisor to Bold Penguin in this transaction
- This transaction underscores FT Partners' deep domain expertise and transaction experience across the InsurTech sector