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At-Bay vs Hippo Insurance — Underwriting workstation for US insurance, 2026.

At-Bay (3 named carriers) and Hippo Insurance (9 named carriers) both sit at the underwriting workstation layer. Zero customer overlap in the public roster — they are addressing different segments of the same stack layer.

Last verified 2026-04-22 · methodology

TL;DR

  • At-Bay has 3 publicly-named carrier deployments; Hippo Insurance has 9. Both at the underwriting workstation layer.
  • Zero customer overlap in the public roster. At-Bay and Hippo Insurance are addressing different carriers within the same stack layer.
  • Both classified ai-native on Phidea's generation axis.
  • Ownership contrast: At-Bay is independently held; Hippo Insurance is public (NYSE: HIPO).
  • Analyst coverage: 1 firm cover both, 2 only At-Bay, 4 only Hippo Insurance.

Customer overlap

BucketCount
Named on At-Bay only3
Named on Hippo Insurance only9
Named on both0
of which US-named on at least one side0

Only on At-Bay

  • At-Bay Specialty Insurance Company (US)
  • Markel Corporation (subsidiary) (US)
  • HSB Specialty Insurance Company (Munich Re) (US)

Only on Hippo Insurance

  • Spinnaker Insurance Company (US)
  • Progressive Advantage Agency, Inc. (distribution partner) (US)
  • Mountain Re Ltd. (Series 2023-1) — catastrophe bond (Bermuda)
  • Notion (smart-home sensor partner) (US)
  • SimpliSafe (smart-home / security partner) (US)
  • Ring (Amazon) (smart-home partner) (US)
  • ADT (smart-home / installed services partner) (US)
  • Kangaroo (smart-home sensor partner) (US)
  • Lennar Corporation (embedded homebuilder partner / investor) (US)

Counts derived from 15sourced carrier-deployment entries across both vendor cards. Aggregate-only statements (e.g. “16 of the top 20”) excluded.

Stack position

At-Bay
Generation
ai-native
Stack layer
Underwriting workstation
Founded
2016
Lines
commercial, specialty
Replaces
manual cyber underwriting, traditional mga submission review
Hippo Insurance
Generation
ai-native
Stack layer
Underwriting workstation
Founded
2015
Lines
home, commercial
Replaces
traditional homeowners agent distribution, manual property underwriting

Ownership and corporate context

At-Bay
Type
independent

Source: At-Bay

Hippo Insurance
Type
public
Ticker
NYSE: HIPO

Source: Business Wire

Carrier-segment specialization

At-Bay — geographic split

  • US
    3

Hippo Insurance — geographic split

  • US
    8
  • Bermuda
    1

Analyst coverage differential

Both covered by
  • TechCrunch · At-Bay (2020: Cyber insurance startup At-Bay raises $34M Series C, adds M12 as a new investor) · Hippo Insurance (2020: Understanding Hippo's valuation in a post-Lemonade IPO world)
Only At-Bay cited by
  • Insurance Insider US (2025: At-Bay to exit the admitted cyber market, sunsetting its product offering)
  • Insurance Journal (2022: Cyber MGA At-Bay Acquires Tech-Solutions Provider Relay)
Only Hippo Insurance cited by
  • Bloomberg (via Insurance Journal) (2021: Insurtech Hippo in Talks to Go Public via Merger With SPAC)
  • Fortune (2023: Hippo Holdings has SPAC remorse 2 years after the deal that saw the firm valued at $5 billion)
  • Seeking Alpha (2021: Hippo Stock: Disruptive But Too Expensive (NYSE:RTPZ))
  • S&P Global Market Intelligence (2022: Hippo's stock yet to resurface despite reverse split, layoffs)

Recent news (last 12 months)

No news items in the last 12 months for either tool.

Sourced limitations

At-Bay
  • At-Bay is a US-only operator. Cyber policies are placed through At-Bay Specialty Insurance Company (E&S, 44 US states) or through a Markel subsidiary (admitted, 47 states). No UK, EU, or Canadian authorised entity is published. Internationally licensed brokers cannot bind At-Bay capacity directly.
    Source: At-Bay
  • In 2024–2025 At-Bay shuttered its Relay digital placement platform (acquired August 2022), laid off approximately 10% of staff including 25 Israeli R&D roles, and announced the sunset of its admitted cyber product — retrenching to E&S cyber and InsurSec. This signals that the combined 'insurance + MDR' thesis has not yet produced a scalable dual-sided P&L.
    Source: The Insurer / Cyber Risk Insurer
  • At-Bay's claims efficacy data (ransomware frequency, MDR containment times under 15 minutes) is self-reported from its own book via the annual InsurSec Report. Independent validation from Gartner, Forrester, Celent, or Advisen is not published in 2024–2025 cyber insurance quadrants.
    Source: At-Bay
Hippo Insurance
  • Hippo's post-IPO stock performance has been severely impaired. After going public at a $5 billion valuation via SPAC merger with Reinvent Technology Partners Z in August 2021, the stock lost over 90% of its value by 2023. Hippo executed a 1-for-25 reverse stock split and 10% workforce reduction in September 2022 to stabilize the share price, and CEO Rick McCathron publicly stated the company would have fared better with a traditional IPO. Hippo's experience is emblematic of the broader 2021–2022 neoinsurance SPAC cohort collapse (Root, MetroMile, Lemonade).
    Source: Fortune
  • Hippo is a 'carrier-as-tech' hybrid, not a pure software vendor. Its technology stack is bundled with its own balance sheet via Spinnaker Insurance Company. Hippo cannot sell its AI underwriting platform as standalone SaaS to competing carriers; its revenue is tied to written premium, loss ratio, and reinsurance economics — not tech-style recurring software revenue. This structural conflation of tech and insurance risk is part of why public markets have discounted InsurTech valuations.
    Source: TechCrunch
  • Hippo does not appear in publicly indexed Gartner, Forrester, or Celent leader quadrants for homeowners insurance underwriting or policy admin. Its recognition is concentrated in tech/trade press (TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Insurance Journal, Seeking Alpha) and SEC filings rather than independent analyst evaluations of the underwriting workstation or policy admin categories.
    Source: Seeking Alpha

Limitations published on Phidea are sourced to the underlying citation and reflect what is publicly named — not an exhaustive list. Consult the vendor card for the full record.

Frequently asked

Do any carriers run both At-Bay and Hippo Insurance?
Not in Phidea's public roster. Across 12 sourced carrier-deployment entries on both vendor cards, zero carriers appear on both. The two tools are addressing different carriers within the same stack layer.
Who owns At-Bay and Hippo Insurance?
At-Bay is independently held. Hippo Insurance is public (NYSE: HIPO).
Which has more named US carriers?
Hippo Insurance has the larger publicly-named US roster: At-Bay 3, Hippo Insurance 9. Public-roster size is a coverage signal, not a quality signal — vendors with stronger NDAs may have larger actual US footprints than the public count shows.
Where are these tools positioned in the insurance stack?
Both sit at the underwriting workstation layer. At-Bay replaces manual cyber underwriting, traditional mga submission review; Hippo Insurance replaces traditional homeowners agent distribution, manual property underwriting.

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