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Convr vs Jetty — Underwriting workstation for US insurance, 2026.

Convr (7 named carriers) and Jetty (4 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 2026-05-29 · methodology

TL;DR

  • Convr has 7 publicly-named carrier deployments; Jetty has 4. Both at the underwriting workstation layer.
  • Zero customer overlap in the public roster. Convr and Jetty are addressing different carriers within the same stack layer.
  • Both classified ai-native on Phidea's generation axis.
  • Ownership contrast: Convr is independently held; Jetty is PE-owned (Rhino (combined Rhino+Jetty entity)).
  • Analyst coverage: 0 firms cover both, 3 only Convr, 6 only Jetty.

Customer overlap

BucketCount
Named on Convr only7
Named on Jetty only4
Named on both0
of which US-named on at least one side0

Only on Convr

  • Zurich North America (US)
  • Hiscox USA (US)
  • Penn National Insurance (US)
  • Encova Insurance (US)
  • Selective Insurance (US)
  • WCF Insurance (US)
  • Columbia Insurance Group (US)

Only on Jetty

  • State National Insurance Company (US)
  • National Specialty Insurance Company (US)
  • AmTrust Financial Services (US)
  • The Fortegra Group (US)

Counts derived from 11sourced carrier-deployment entries across both vendor cards. Aggregate-only statements (e.g. “16 of the top 20”) excluded.

Stack position

Generation
ai-native
Stack layer
Underwriting workstation
Founded
2016
Lines
commercial, specialty
Generation
ai-native
Stack layer
Underwriting workstation
Founded
2015
Lines
home
Replaces
traditional agent distributed renters insurance, upfront cash security deposit

Ownership and corporate context

Jetty
Type
private-equity
Parent
Rhino (combined Rhino+Jetty entity)
Acquired
2025

Source: PR Newswire

Carrier-segment specialization

Convr — geographic split

  • US
    7

Jetty — geographic split

  • US
    4

Analyst coverage differential

Only Convr cited by
  • Carrier Management (2020: DataCubes Becomes Convr, and Its CEO Explains Why)
  • Reinsurance News (2025: Zurich North America enhances underwriting efficiency with Convr AI)
  • PR Newswire (2025: Convr AI Holds the Universe of Commercial Insurance within Submission Ontology)
Only Jetty cited by
  • TechCrunch (2018: Jetty raises $10.5M to help renters insure and guarantee their leases)
  • The Real Deal (2021: Rental insurance startup looks to solve late-rent problem)
  • REI INK (2021: Jetty Introduces New Flexible Rent Payment Product and Raises $23M)
  • The Insurer (2025: Rhino and Jetty to merge into Clement-led security deposit insurtech)
  • Coverager (2025: Rhino and Jetty merge)
  • Insurance Journal (2018: Lemonade competitor that goes straight to consumers gets funding)

Recent news (last 12 months)

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

Sourced limitations

  • Convr's total disclosed funding is approximately $18M across two rounds, ending with the $15.2M Series B in November 2019. No later equity rounds have been publicly announced. That capital base is modest compared to well-funded underwriting automation peers, which may constrain the pace of model development and international expansion.
    Source: PR Newswire
  • Convr is a US commercial P&C specialist. Its submission ontology and carrier integrations are built for the US market — standard and specialty commercial lines. It does not serve personal lines, life, health, or workers' comp as primary lines, and no European or Asia-Pacific carrier deployments have been publicly announced.
    Source: Convr
  • Convr's accuracy claim for machine-read data is 91%, which means roughly 1 in 11 data points still requires human review or correction. For high-volume small commercial portfolios this is workable; for complex middle-market risks with long loss-run histories, residual manual touches remain.
    Source: Convr
  • Convr does not replace a policy administration system or rating engine — it sits upstream of those. Carriers that lack mature APIs into their policy admin stack will need integration work to route the structured output Convr produces into downstream underwriting decisions.
    Source: Convr
  • Jetty is an MGA, not a licensed insurance carrier. It does not hold the balance-sheet risk on any of its products — renters insurance (Jetty Protect) is issued by State National Insurance Company (a Markel subsidiary) in 49 states and by National Specialty Insurance Company in Florida, and reinsured through Farmers/Munich Re. Security-deposit insurance and loss-of-employment coverage on the post-merger Rhino+Jetty platform are fronted by AmTrust Financial Services and The Fortegra Group. Revenue scales with distribution volume and commission/fee economics, not float or underwriting profit; if capacity partners exit or raise reinsurance costs, Jetty's economics compress immediately.
  • Jetty no longer sells direct-to-consumer. As of 2026, Jetty Protect renters insurance is available only to residents of apartment communities that have signed a Jetty property-management partnership — prospects without a partner-issued sign-up link cannot obtain a quote. This is a deliberate B2B2C pivot away from the 2017-2019 D2C 'Lemonade competitor' positioning that was heavily written up by TechCrunch and Insurance Business America. The distribution surface is now gated behind the enterprise sales cycle with multifamily owners and operators.
    Source: NerdWallet
  • Jetty experienced material financial distress in April 2020: the company laid off approximately 40% of its workforce (~35 employees) and paused new policy sales to shore up its balance sheet during the COVID-19 rental-housing disruption. The company survived, raised a further $23M in 2021 co-led by Citi and Flourish Ventures, and pivoted fully to property-management distribution, but its early D2C InsurTech thesis did not scale in the way Series A/B investors underwrote.
  • Jetty does not appear in publicly indexed Gartner, Forrester, or Celent leader quadrants for core renters/residential underwriting or MGA platforms. Recognition is concentrated in trade and tech press (TechCrunch, The Real Deal, Insurance Business America, REI INK, Coverager, The Insurer) and real-estate industry outlets (Bisnow, Propmodo, HousingWire). There is no independent analyst validation of its underwriting or loss-ratio performance against neo-renters peers such as Lemonade.
    Source: NerdWallet
  • Jetty draws an unusually high rate of consumer complaints to state insurance regulators relative to the median renters carrier, per NerdWallet's 2026 review and U.S. News aggregated data. The product is priced aggressively low (Jetty Protect starts at ~$5/month) and distributes through property-management channels that sometimes pair the policy with lease obligations, which contributes to customer-satisfaction pressure at the regulator level.
    Source: NerdWallet

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 Convr and Jetty?
Not in Phidea's public roster. Across 11 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 Convr and Jetty?
Convr is independently held. Jetty is PE-owned (Rhino (combined Rhino+Jetty entity)).
Which has more named US carriers?
Convr has the larger publicly-named US roster: Convr 7, Jetty 4. 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. Convr operates as a standalone vendor; Jetty replaces traditional agent distributed renters insurance, upfront cash security deposit.

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