{"id":942640,"date":"2026-05-07T00:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/942640\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:13:14","slug":"insurance-startup-corgi-hits-1-3b-valuation-4-months-after-its-series-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/942640\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Business insurance startup Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion, the startup\u2019s co-founder <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/nico-laqua-302b17233_today-corgi-is-announcing-a-160m-series-ugcPost-7457822404120051713-XgrI\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAADpdNfIB3k9sDN9aP8eJNdjcZMTijThAcvQ\" target=\"_blank\">Nico <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/nico-laqua-302b17233_today-corgi-is-announcing-a-160m-series-ugcPost-7457822404120051713-XgrI\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAADpdNfIB3k9sDN9aP8eJNdjcZMTijThAcvQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Laqua<\/a> said on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes just four months after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corgi.insure\/blog\/corgi-raises-108m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">company announced<\/a> a $108 million Series A. The company has now raised $268 million in funding to date, Laqua said, and has become <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/snowmaker\/status\/2052069888504820097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Y Combinator\u2019s<\/a> latest unicorn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laqua started the company with Emily Yuan in 2024 and was part of YC\u2019s Spring 2024 batch. Corgi, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corgi.insure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">names<\/a> Deel and Artisan as customers, offers coverage for general liability, cyber liability, and tech and AI liability. Other investors in the round include Kindred Ventures, Leblon Capital, and First Order Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re excited about the raise and incredibly grateful to our investors for believing in what we\u2019re building. But the job is not done,\u201d Laqua told TechCrunch. \u201cOur mission is bigger: we want to use the fresh capital to expand into more lines of insurance and build a generational company.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business insurance startup Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3094],"tags":[51,3134,2902,263286,16,15,14754,106180],"class_list":{"0":"post-942640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-in-brief","11":"tag-insurancetech","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-y-combinator","15":"tag-yc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116530407950175068","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}