Vantel has been named to the 2026 Insurtech 50 by CB Insights. It's the fifth annual edition of the list, which names the 50 most promising insurtech startups in the world, and it's published in partnership with ITC Vegas.

CB Insights' research team picked the companies using its own data: deal activity, industry partnerships, team strength, investor strength, executive interviews and proprietary metrics. This year's list has 27 insurers and intermediaries and 23 tech vendors. As a group, it ranks among the top 4% of private companies globally for overall health and growth potential. Vantel is one of the tech vendors, in the Coverage & policy assessment category.

Being recognized next to companies from across the global insurance ecosystem is a real milestone for our team, and for the brokers who have helped shape the product.

Chris Sekerak, Lead Analyst at CB Insights, described this year's list:

The 2026 Insurtech 50 reveals the top startups shaking up the insurance industry's status quo. The common thread across the cohort is the ability to scale differentiated businesses that are unlikely to be displaced by large AI or insurance companies.

That lens matters to us because it gets at one of the questions brokers ask us most often: "Can't I just use a general AI model?"

Vantel supports brokers across Europe and globally with the mid-market and corporate insurance placement process. That context is the key to the answer.

A chat window is built for one person asking one question. A complex placement is something different: a firm producing advice that a client relies on to protect its most sensitive assets, in a regulated industry. That changes three things.

Accuracy that doesn't depend on the user. A general model is only as good as the person prompting it. Vantel carries the insurance expertise itself, so not missing anything doesn't come down to who is typing or which questions they thought to ask.

Traceability. Every finding in Vantel links to the clause it came from, and the whole placement becomes an auditable record. Insurance needs a clear record of how a broker's final advice was produced, and a chat history isn't one.

One shared system. Colleagues working on the same client share context instead of starting over. Leadership can standardize how placements are run across the firm. And the market intelligence that would otherwise be buried in individual chats becomes something the whole brokerage can use.

We've written more about the technical side of this in Why Microsoft Copilot (and other generic AI) is a Liability in Commercial Insurance.

Thank you to the brokerages across Europe and beyond who trust us with their placements. Your feedback shapes what we build every week. And thank you to the Vantel team, who work hard every day to build and improve the platform.

We're just getting started. If you'd like to see how Vantel fits your placement workflow, book a demo.