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Accelerant Holdings

A data-driven marketplace that connects specialty insurance underwriters with the capital providers who back their policies, Accelerant's "Risk Exchange" platform helps smaller insurers write niche commercial coverage. Founded in 2018 by insurance veterans, the name comes from the word for a substance that speeds up a process—fitting for a platform built to accelerate how specialty risks get insured. Its founders were famously "pugnacious" about modernizing an industry stuck with outdated technology.