How TruAgents is helping insurance carriers use AI to deliver personalized customer communications at scale while maintaining the compliance, governance, and trust the industry requires.

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October 28, 2026

Investing in the Future of Insurance Customer Engagement: Why We Backed TruAgents

How TruAgents is helping insurance carriers use AI to deliver personalized customer communications at scale while maintaining the compliance, governance, and trust the industry requires.

October 23, 2026

ITC Vegas 2026: Moving Beyond AI Hype to Meaningful Adoption

As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the insurance industry, conversations at ITC Vegas 2026 revealed a growing focus on the practical realities of adoption and the importance of connecting innovation with industry needs.

September 30, 2026

Investing at Market Intersections: ManchesterStory's Investment in LimitFi

ManchesterStory first met Zach Smith and Adam Budnick, founders of LimitFi, in early 2021. Zach brought more than twenty years of experience across private equity and capital markets, most recently at Aquiline. Adam had spent seventeen years at AIG, where he most recently led the company's mortgage and credit portfolio insurance business. Together, they were preparing to build a company focused on a specialized and often overlooked corner of the market: credit insurance.

July 30, 2025

Journey Raises $8M to Replace Outdated EAPs with the First Proactive Mental Health Platform for Workplaces

Journey, the leading provider of proactive mental health solutions for modern companies, announced today the closing of its $8 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Cambrian Growth Partners with participation from ManchesterStory, Canaan Partners, J-Ventures, J-Impact, Life Science Angels, HealthTech Capital, and others.

July 10, 2025

Meet the women paving the way in Iowa venture capital

ManchesterStory's Nicole Gunderson featured in Business Records, innovationIOWA. | "Kaylee Williams, Liz Keehner, Mikayla Mooney and Nicole Gunderson are a part of a surge in women leadership in venture capital in Iowa. All four women grew up in Iowa and received their undergraduate education in the state. Now, all four are interested in showing other women — and founders in general — how the rate of innovation in Iowa can accelerate when more women are given a seat at the venture capital table."

July 9, 2025

Stitch Secures Funding from ManchesterStory and BrokerTech Fund to Launch Insurance-First Agentic AI Platform

Stitch, an AI platform purpose-built for the insurance industry, today announced it has closed a $3M Seed round led by ManchesterStory, a premier InsurTech-focused venture capital firm. ManchesterStory invested through its InsurTech-focused MS Discovery Fund II, and through BrokerTech Fund which together invest in innovative companies driving carrier and broker-centric innovation across the insurance value chain.

Investing in the Future of Insurance Customer Engagement: Why We Backed TruAgents

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Investing in the Future of Insurance Customer Engagement: Why We Backed TruAgents

ITC Vegas 2026: Moving Beyond AI Hype to Meaningful Adoption

Investing at Market Intersections: ManchesterStory's Investment in LimitFi

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Journey Raises $8M to Replace Outdated EAPs with the First Proactive Mental Health Platform for Workplaces

Meet the women paving the way in Iowa venture capital

Stitch Secures Funding from ManchesterStory and BrokerTech Fund to Launch Insurance-First Agentic AI Platform

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