Bridgepoint acquires majority stake in insurance-tech platform VIPR from Tenzing

• Deal was completed via Bridgepoint Growth, the firm’s dedicated small-cap fund for fast-growing businesses
• VIPR’s existing backer, growth equity investor Tenzing, is fully exiting its stake
• Co-founder and chief executive Paul Templar and the wider management team are reinvesting and staying on to lead the business

Bridgepoint, via Bridgepoint Growth, has completed a new majority investment in VIPR Solutions, an insurance-native technology platform for Delegated Authority intelligence. Bridgepoint Growth has become VIPR’s majority shareholder.

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in London, VIPR sits at the center of how the insurance market exchanges program business data, helping process bordereaux, the data files that managing general agents, coverholders, brokers, fronting carriers, reinsurers and third-party administrators rely on to record risks, premiums and claims.

VIPR’s AI-enabled platform transfers, standardizes, validates and reconciles this data in a controlled, auditable way, according to a statement. The platform processes around 500,000 bordereaux annually, representing about $12 billion of gross written premium, across a base of blue-chip customers.

Over the past decade, VIPR has grown from a single bordereaux-processing tool into an end-to-end data and workflow platform that increasingly acts as the market’s system of record. Its domain expertise, accumulated data and integration into customer workflows have made it the recognized leader in its field, the company said.

Bridgepoint’s investment will fund continued development of VIPR’s platform and product roadmap, scale its insurance-native AI capabilities and support further international expansion, drawing on Bridgepoint’s experience scaling high-growth, profitable data technology businesses.

VIPR’s existing sponsor, Tenzing, a growth equity investor specializing in tech and tech-enabled businesses across the UK and Europe, will fully exit the business under the deal. Co-founder and chief executive Paul Templar and the wider management team will reinvest alongside Bridgepoint and continue to lead VIPR.

“VIPR has built a differentiated and defensible position at the centre of a large, structurally growing and under-penetrated market,” said Mayank Kanga, partner at Bridgepoint, in a statement. “The company combines deep insurance domain expertise, mission-critical technology and an embedded role in its customers’ workflows.”

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