Anzen has secured a $16 million Series A round that will accelerate its efforts to modernize the distribution of commercial insurance across the United States. The funding was led by Madrona with participation from Sandbox Industries, SNR, Andreessen Horowitz, and several additional investors, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $26 million. The new investment reflects growing confidence in Anzen’s AI-powered approach to solving long-standing workflow inefficiencies in the insurance market.
Founded in 2021, Anzen has expanded rapidly to achieve millions in ARR and now serves over 5,000 retail agents nationwide. Its platform processes thousands of submissions each month across Specialty, Excess, and P&C lines, and it has already quoted hundreds of millions in premiums. The company positions itself as the first AI native distribution platform designed to support accounts of any size, with systems engineered to eliminate the manual, analog processes that have slowed commercial insurance for decades.
The Series A funding will support the expansion of Anzen’s AI-powered workflows, deeper integrations with carriers and agency management systems, and team growth to keep pace with the rising adoption of its solutions. Anzen is preparing the public launch of Anzen Pro, its end-to-end AI workspace that will allow agencies to submit, quote, bind, renew, and manage their entire book within a unified system. The company expects Anzen Pro to handle the majority of commercial insurance workflows by mid-2026, thereby reducing fragmentation and enhancing operational efficiency for both independent agents and large brokerages.
Anzen continues to build on its proprietary AI models designed for Specialty, Excess, and P&C workflows. Its technology converts unstructured submissions into structured data, routes risks to appropriate markets, and compares quotes within seconds. Agents can continue using their existing email workflows and agency management systems while gaining streamlined access to both direct carrier placements and wholesale distribution. Anzen reports that these capabilities reduce agency overhead by more than thirty percent and save agents half of their time, allowing producers to concentrate on client service and growth.
The company also plans to extend its ecosystem of strategic partners across data and AI. This will include integrations with risk intelligence providers, external data enrichment platforms, satellite imagery, claims sources, and third-party models that strengthen Anzen’s ability to support complex accounts. The growing network of underwriters and markets connected to Anzen’s quoting infrastructure reflects the company’s wholesale roots and decades of combined broker experience.
Anzen believes the industry is shifting rapidly toward intelligent automation that replaces manual processing with scalable, real-time decision support. Its expansion plans aim to build a single, operational system capable of serving both solo producers and national brokerages, offering institutional-grade execution and comprehensive market access.
KEY QUOTES:
“We’re solving the structural inefficiency at the core of commercial insurance distribution. This funding accelerates our mission to give every independent agent the technology and market access they need to work every deal, regardless of size or complexity.
For years, we’ve been building and using these workflows ourselves as practicing wholesale brokers. We didn’t just theorize what the industry needs—we lived the pain and solved it in detail and at scale. Now agencies are flooding in because we’ve built what others couldn’t: a complete AI workspace that actually works for insurance distribution.”
Max Bruner, Founder and CEO, Anzen
“Commercial insurance distribution has been stuck in the analog era for far too long. Anzen is attacking the hardest part of the problem—Specialty, E and S, and Casualty lines where everything is done over email and siloed databases. By combining wholesale expertise with vertical AI, they’ve built a platform that transforms the back office and outcomes delivered by independent agents and the largest brokerages.”
Chris Picardo, Partner, Madrona
