InsurTech’s power couples: 5 partnerships changing the game in 2026

February 13, 2026

This Valentine’s Day, we’re spotlighting the partnerships driving InsurTech forward. As the industry continues to evolve, strategic partnerships are proving to be the secret ingredient for success, bringing together cutting-edge technology, data-driven insights, and customer-first innovation. FinTech Global spotlights five of the best partnerships changing the InsurTech landscape in 2026.

Akur8 and Branch deepen partnership to boost data-driven pricing

Akur8, a next-generation InsurTech, and Branch, a Columbus-based insurer, have expanded their existing partnership to strengthen pricing transparency and market intelligence through the adoption of Akur8 Discover, a solution designed to provide on-demand insight into U.S. regulatory filings and competitive dynamics.

By extending its use of Akur8’s platform, Branch is seeking to enhance transparency, speed and consistency within its actuarial and pricing workflows, while reinforcing its commitment to offering fair and competitive insurance rates to its members.

Akur8 provides insurers with advanced pricing and reserving tools that combine actuarial science with machine learning.

Its platform is designed to bring transparency and governance to complex pricing models, allowing actuarial teams to make faster, more informed decisions without compromising control. The company positions its technology as a way to modernise insurance pricing while remaining aligned with regulatory expectations.

Through Akur8 Discover, regulatory filings that are traditionally unstructured and time-consuming to analyse are transformed into structured, searchable intelligence. This enables pricing and actuarial teams to quickly access insights into market behaviour, rate changes, market positioning and regulatory trends. For insurers operating in rapidly changing markets or with limited historical data, this capability supports more robust and timely pricing decisions.

2. Colmobil selects Novidea to modernise vehicle insurance

Automotive group Colmobil has chosen Novidea’s cloud-native insurance management platform to modernise and consolidate its vehicle insurance operations.

The rollout will cover Colmobil’s insurance business and aims to simplify workflows, reduce manual tasks, and strengthen data-driven decision-making, according to Yahoo! Finance.

Until now, Colmobil operated separate systems for vehicle sales and insurance activities, which limited visibility and reporting across the organisation. The partnership with Novidea will integrate the insurer’s end-to-end distribution platform with Colmobil’s existing Salesforce customer management system, creating a single operational process that links sales and insurance functions.

Novidea is an InsurTech providing cloud-native insurance management software and serves more than 350 customers globally.

The company expanded following its 2024 acquisition of Docomotion and opened a London office in November 2024 to support its growth across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The Colmobil deployment is expected to improve automation across sales, service, operations and claims. It will also introduce data quality controls and provide real-time business insights through advanced analytics, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency.

3. Kalepa and James River team up to enhance AI-driven underwriting

Kalepa, an InsurTech firm, and James River Insurance Company, a specialty insurer operating in the excess and surplus lines market, have entered into a technology partnership focused on advancing underwriting efficiency and decision-making.

The partnership has been formed to support James River’s strategic objective of improving operating efficiency, speed to market and portfolio management within the competitive E&S insurance landscape.

By deploying Kalepa’s AI platform, James River aims to augment underwriting decisions with data-driven insights while reinforcing underwriting discipline and long-term profitable growth.

4. Starr adopts Five Sigma AI to transform claims operations

Five Sigma, the AI claims technology company, has been selected by Starr, a global investment and insurance organisation, to advance its digital claims transformation with AI-native solutions.

Starr will deploy Five Sigma’s AI Claims Management Platform and Clive™, the multi-agent AI Claims Expert, to modernise its specialty claims operations. The partnership aims to enhance claims efficiency, accuracy, and overall adjuster productivity.

The Five Sigma platform embeds intelligence into every stage of the claims lifecycle, from first notice of loss (FNOL) through resolution. By continuously analysing data, orchestrating workflows, and guiding adjusters in real time, the technology is designed to shorten cycle times, reduce loss adjustment expense, and provide a single source of truth for claims operations.

The move positions Starr to lead in efficiency, accuracy, and policyholder experience in the specialty insurance sector.

5. Quantexa launches claims AI accelerator on Guidewire

Quantexa, a global pioneer in Decision Intelligence (DI), has launched its Quantexa Accelerator for Decision Intelligence for Guidewire ClaimCenter to boost claims intelligence for insurers.

The move will allow insurers to integrate advanced claims data and analytics directly into the ClaimCenter on Guidewire Cloud workflows.

Now available worldwide on the Guidewire Marketplace, the accelerator integrates Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence platform with Guidewire ClaimCenter, delivering real-time claims segmentation, fraud detection, and contextual analytics across the entire claims lifecycle.

By connecting internal and external data into a unified view of customers, claimants, and suppliers, insurers gain immediate insight into risk, behaviour, and networks from the first notice of loss through to claims resolution.

Quantexa’s accelerator simplifies integration with Guidewire Cloud, lowering implementation effort and accelerating time-to-value for insurers modernising their claims operations.

The combination of Guidewire’s core claims platform with Quantexa’s contextual graph analytics and entity resolution allows insurers to detect fraud and leakage earlier, make more accurate segmentation and triage decisions, deliver consistent outcomes for policyholders, and reduce risk during cloud migrations through reusable integration assets and simplified data unification.

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