Maximum Information today announces the close of its £2.3m seed round, led by Insurtech Gateway with participation from Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, Convex and Portfolio Ventures. The raise reflects a growing consensus that catastrophe-related risks require a new generation of analytical tools that are vendor-agnostic, use-case centric and capable of supporting a broader spectrum of risk transfer applications. 

 

In 2024, natural catastrophes resulted in $417bn in economic losses. Less than 40 percent of those losses were insured. Despite decades of progress in catastrophe modelling, the global protection gap still stands at $263bn, leaving governments, businesses and entire communities exposed.  

 

Risk carriers now face rapidly evolving peril patterns, increasing exposure complexity and a rapidly diversifying landscape of modelling providers. These advancements create opportunities but many risk managers still lack the orchestration tools needed to compare, adjust, stress test or unify outputs across providers. Without an agnostic translation layer, adoption slows, uncertainty increases and model users are left struggling to build resilience in a world that necessitates innovation. 

 

Maximum Information is addressing this challenge directly. The company is building the first vendor-agnostic middleware for catastrophe risk analytics. This technology enables risk carriers, brokers and financial institutions to make mission-critical decisions with confidence. Together with its customers, the company is targeting a generational opportunity to build resilience by facilitating user-led catastrophe risk transfer decisions.  

 

Its flagship platform, MagniPhi, embeds seamlessly into cat modelling workflows, and enables risk carriers to look under the hood of their models with rapidity and clarity. This supports faster, sharper and more reliable analysis. 

“As the modelling landscape expands the industry needs reliable infrastructure, not more noise,” says Tom Philp, Chief Executive Officer of Maximum Information. “Our goal is to provide the analytical foundation that allows organisations to lean into catastrophe risk decision-making with consistency and confidence.”  

Dom Nolan, Investment Manager at Insurtech Gateway, explains; “Maximum Information solves a critical problem at the centre of emerging cat modelling trends. (Re)insurers and brokers are facing increasing pressure to better understand risk, and vendors are continuously updating / building new models across global peril-regions. Insurtech Gateway is delighted to partner with Tom and his exceptionally equipped team in building a vendor-agnostic platform of B2B SaaS tools that help risk carriers understand, quantify, and manage catastrophe and climate-related risks.” 

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