InsurTech start-ups invited to compete for £50,000 prize in 2026 Insurathon

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has launched the ninth edition of its annual Insurathon competition, which supports start-up and scale-up technology businesses pursuing technological advancement and innovation in the insurance sector.

Since its launch in 2017, the firm has provided in excess of £325,000 of free advice and investment support to start-ups through the Insurathon.

Applicants selected as finalists will compete for a prize consisting of:

• £25,000 of free UK legal and regulatory advice from lawyers within Norton Rose Fulbright's market-leading corporate and regulatory insurance practice
• A potential equity investment of £25,000

All applicants will benefit from a one-to-one 45-minute free legal clinic delivered by Norton Rose Fulbright lawyers covering legal and regulatory issues across areas including corporate, restructuring, commercial arrangements, intellectual property, data privacy, employment and labour, and financial services regulation. All finalists will be eligible for three 45-minute free legal clinics during the competition day.

Norton Rose Fulbright is keen to hear from scale-up and start-up businesses developing technology or propositions in areas including:

• Insurance offerings that seek to digitise some or all parts of a particular insurance value chain using technology such as artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, internet of things (IoT), analytics, and/or smart contract technology
• The commercial (re)insurance market across a broad range of capabilities, such as platforms, augmented underwriting, machine learning, claims, dynamic pricing, active risk management, data and analytics
• Novel insurance solutions and platforms, whether a secondary trading platform or an information sharing platform for (re)insurance
• Products or services that challenge the existing (re)insurance proposition and way of doing business

The 2026 Insurathon will take place on Wednesday 1 July 2026 at Norton Rose Fulbright's London office. Further information, including eligibility criteria and details on how to apply, is available on the firm's website.

The winner of the 2025 event, Jeremiah Smith, PhD, Co-founder and CEO at OpenCover, said:

"The Insurathon was as intense as it was insightful and working with the Norton Rose Fulbright team was extremely valuable - I highly recommend all insurtech founders apply."

Nicholas Berry, head of Norton Rose Fulbright's London corporate insurance team and founder of the Insurathon, said:

"The Insurathon has become a flagship initiative for supporting high-quality insurtech innovation. Each year, we see increasingly sophisticated propositions that are tackling real challenges across the insurance value chain, and this competition allows us to combine our legal, regulatory and commercial expertise to help founders accelerate their growth."

Previous winners of the firm's Insurathon include OpenCover, JustParent, InsurX, ARMD, Anansi, Riskbook (now Supercede), Concirrus, Pluto Travel, Mackenzie Intelligence Services, Flock Cover and Nexus Mutual.