Armed with $6.2 million in seed funding and a technology platform that simplifies the insurance submission process for construction brokers and middle-market commercial contractor clients, InsurTech Shepherd is ready to tackle its mission to rebuild construction underwriting.

Co-Founders Justin Levine and Steven Buonpane recently told Carrier Management about the already launched platform, available for free to construction insurance brokers, which pulls in data from popular construction management and productivity platforms that contractors already use, and about plans to add capacity to the excess casualty market by year-end 2021. (See related article, “Rebuilding Construction Insurance“; pictured above, Shepherd Co-Founders Mohamed El Mahallawy, Justin Levine and Steven Buonpane)