MGA Insurtech Corvus Acquires Cyber-Focused Wingman Insurance

Managing general agent Corvus Insurance, fresh off of raising $115 million in new venture financing, has made an acquisition with an eye on the admitted coverage marketplace and more digital platform partnerships. More acquisitions appear likely.

The Boston-based insurtech focused on providing commercial insurance through artificial intelligence-driven risk data purchased Wingman Insurance, a Cambridge, Maryland-based insurtech MGA that provides a tech platform for admitted cyber and technology errors and omissions coverage in all 50 states and D.C.

Both companies declined to disclose financial terms. They have clear compatibilities, however. Corvus, which debuted in January 2017, has made strides with products such as its Corvus Crowbar digital platform, which provides cyber risk data to brokers and policyholders. Wingman, which started in 2016, has products such as Wingman Cyber, a specialty insurance product for small and medium-sized businesses that covers cyber attack and data breach-related losses. (Wingman will continue as an independent brand and offering.)

Phil Edmundson, the Corvus founder and CEO, said acquiring Wingman creates new opportunities.

“By expanding our footprint in the small and midsize business market and creating the ability to white label our [products and services] as we further explore multiple product lines, this addition creates new opportunities for Corvus as we launch an acquisition strategy and continue organic growth,” Edmundson said in prepared remarks.

In a June 2021 interview about Corvus’s $115 million Series C financing, Edmundson gave Carrier Management a hint that an expansion was to come. As of June, the company employed 170 people, with plans to more than double headcount through 2021, he said.

Source: Corvus Insurance