AI InsurTech Raises $46M Series B to Reduce Premiums/Make Fleets & Roads Safer

Battery Ventures leads Series B as commercial traction validates industry shift to fleet insurance that rewards safer driving with savings

AI-powered commercial auto insurance company Fairmatic has raised $46 million in new funding, six months after its oversubscribed Series A, bringing its total financing to $88 million. The round was led by Battery Ventures with participation from current investors and Bridge Bank. 

Fairmatic is creating a new commercial auto insurance category with its AI-driven underwriting approach that unlocks continuous savings opportunities for fleets. By providing an easy way to monitor driving events and offering actionable improvement tips, Fairmatic is giving fleets more proactive control over their risk management approach. 

This fair and transparent underwriting approach unlocks a better understanding of risk, ensuring fleets are only evaluated based on factors within their control. With Fairmatic, fleets are incentivized for safer driving and not penalized for unavoidable incidents. This diverges from traditional insurance models that rely on historical data, which has led to losses and overpriced premiums, especially upon renewal.

“Fairmatic addresses the central requirement of improving commercial auto insurance: motivating safer driving. The company does so by capturing the rich data signal generated by our smartphones and applying it to the task of identifying unsafe driving behavior, which enables Fairmatic to offer insurance products that both reward fleet managers for safer driving and potentially achieve greater profitability than traditional, loss-based approaches to underwriting and pricing,” said Battery Ventures Partner Marcus Ryu, the former CEO and co-founder of insurtech company Guidewire Software.

Ryu added, “We are excited to partner with Fairmatic as an exemplar of fundamental innovation in financial services.  Fulfillment of the company’s mission will entail more than just convenience and lower insurance costs for their customers; it will enhance the safety of the roads we all rely upon every day.”

“New developments in AI, combined with troves of proprietary driving insights, have allowed Fairmatic to unlock a completely new approach to addressing the most critical questions in commercial auto insurance: which drivers are safe and which aren’t; how can insurers help drivers improve safety and reduce risk,” said Jonathan Matus, Fairmatic founder and CEO. “With this powerful new technology for improving driver behavior, there’s a massive opportunity to reframe the problem and solution from first principles. This new funding strengthens Fairmatic’s lead in AI innovation geared towards meaningfully improved road safety and profitability.”

As part of its Series B, Fairmatic is scaling its AI and data-science capabilities by opening a new R&D hub in Israel and tapping seasoned technologist and former NASA researcher, Guy Shaviv, as the new Head of Engineering in Israel. “Israel has some of the world’s finest talent for both Insurtech and mobility. Folks here are creative, smart, and aggressive — exactly what a startup at our stage needs,” said Shaviv, who built mobile at Nexar, a fleet dash cam company for fleet management, and was employee No. 1 at Houzz, a unicorn with 65 million users. Shaviv has a proven track record of driving innovative product and engineering strategies at a global scale.

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