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Best Internet First Insurance Platforms Companies in Ontario, Canada

The 56 best Internet First Insurance Platforms companies in Ontario, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Rates.ca.

56companies tracked
$121.8Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
10have raised

Ranked: Best Internet First Insurance Platforms companies in Ontario

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Rates.ca
Online insurance comparison platform for individuals
$51M64 mo agoAcquiredIgal Mayer
President & CEO
2014SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+25——
2BOXX Insurance
Provider of cyber insurance and security solutions for businesses and homes
$24M41 mo agoAcquiredVishal Kundi
Founder & CEO
2018WordPressMySQLPHP+38——
3PolicyMe
Online life insurance comparison platform for individuals
64Tech top 25%Market top 35%Talent top 38%Moat top 39%
All 8 signals ▾
Techtop 25%
Markettop 35%
Talenttop 38%
Moattop 39%
Fundingtop 43%
Growthbottom 48%
Globalbottom 39%
Newsbottom 18%
Tech: 47 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Alb, Amazon Cloudfront
Market: 2,802 employees (top 2% of FinTech) · Top-1,000,000 web property
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100
$16M15 mo agoSeries BAndrew Ostro
Co-Founder & CEO
2018WebflowSentryMarker+35——
4Foxquilt
Platform enabling formation of social groups to avail insurance savings
42Growth top 35%Moat top 39%Tech top 41%Funding top 44%
All 10 signals ▾
Growthtop 35%
Moattop 39%
Techtop 41%
Fundingtop 44%
Producttop 49%
Talentbottom 49%
Innovationbottom 46%
Globalbottom 36%
Marketbottom 35%
Newsbottom 21%
Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · 10 curated direct competitors tracked
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100
$11M14 mo agoSeries BMark Morissette
Founder & CEO
2016SanityApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+20—1 partnership
5Cyberboxx
Online cyber insurance platform for small & medium businesses
$10M57 mo agoSeries AMike Senechal
Co-Founder
2018———
6Intelligent Mechatronic Systems
Provider of telematics solutions for insurance
$4M155 mo agoAcqui-Hired—1999———
7Terminal
API-based platform for integration of telematic solutions into applications
$3M31 mo agoSeed—2023TurbopackEmotionSentry+17—1 job opening
8Zensurance
Insurance platform for SMEs
$2M96 mo agoAcquired—2016Amazon WebstoreWordPressApple iCloud Mail+44—5 awards
9Sitata
Online platform that provides location-based health & other emergency information for travelers
$120K91 mo agoSeedMark Pavlides
Advisor to Founder
2012BreakdanceWordPressMySQL+16——

Top 10 Internet First Insurance Platforms companies in Ontario

#1
Series B · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2018 · 2802 employees
$15.8Mraised
▾

Online life insurance comparison platform for individuals. It provides quotes for term life insurance and whole life insurance. Its insurance partners include RBC Insurance, Manulife, Canada Life, and more. It also offers insurance claims assistance solutions.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 64how this company ranks against its industry peers
Tech
top 25%
Market
top 35%
Talent
top 38%
Moat
top 39%
Funding
top 43%
Growth
bottom 48%
Tech: 47 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Alb, Amazon Cloudfront · Devops: Nginx
Market: 2,802 employees (top 2% of FinTech) · Top-1,000,000 web property
Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2025Series B$21.6M
  • Apr 2025Conventional Debt—
  • Sep 2022Series A$13.5M
  • Jul 2022Conventional Debt$5M
Founders & team
Andrew OstroCo-Founder & CEOLaura McKayCo-Founder & President
Investors
Consorcio, HCS Capital Partners, Westdale Properties, Accelerator Centre, SiriusPoint, Securian Financial
Tech stack
Amazon AlbAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailApple Sign-In
#2
Series B · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2016 · 52 employees
$11.1Mraised
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Foxquilt is a platform which enables users to form social groups and using group purchasing power, avail savings on premiums, reduced deductibles and further savings at renewal. Leverages a sharing economy technology platform so that groups of individuals or businesses seeking the same type of insurance can band together to save. As of Oct'18, the platform is yet to launch a product.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 42how this company ranks against its industry peers
Growth
top 35%
Moat
top 39%
Tech
top 41%
Funding
top 44%
Product
top 49%
Talent
bottom 49%
Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · 10 curated direct competitors tracked
Tech: 32 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 · Observability: Sentry
Audience (LinkedIn): 4k LinkedIn followers — 3.1% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships (incl. Liberty Home Guard) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2025Series B$216.9K
  • Jul 2023Series B$12M
  • Sep 2021Series A$6.3M
  • Feb 2020Seed$2.6M
Founders & team
Mark MorissetteFounder & CEO
Investors
Icm, Luge Capital, AmTrust Financial, Side Door Ventures, Extreme Venture Partners, ventureLAB
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAnimate.CssApple Icloud MailCalendly
#3
Acquired · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2018 · 43 employees
$24.5Mraised
▾

Provider of cyber insurance and security solutions for businesses and homes. It offers tools to help prevent, respond to, and recover from digital risks. Coverage protects technology providers from claims related to software, service, or product failures. Support tools help businesses monitor threats, guide response, and strengthen cybersecurity. The company develops cyber protection services to enable corporate partners to provide solutions to their customers.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 5.6% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2023Series B$14.4M
  • Sep 2021Series A$10M
Founders & team
Vishal KundiFounder & CEO
Investors
Cyber Mentor Fund, Zurich, SixThirty, Lloyd’s, Rokk3r
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesBootstrapChart.JsCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#4
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2023 · 2 employees
$3.1Mraised
▾

API-based platform for integration of telematic solutions into applications. The platform enables users to track vehicle location, report unsafe driving behaviors, monitor driver's hours of service, fleet management, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 3.7% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Founding Technical Account Manager
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2023Seed$3.1M
Investors
Golden Ventures, Y Combinator, Northside Ventures, McVestCo VC, Wayfinder
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesClerkCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementEmotion
#5
Acquired · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2014 · 400 employees
$51Mraised
▾

Rates.ca provides an online insurance comparison platform for individuals. It offers quotes for auto insurance, travel insurance, life insurance, home insurance, health insurance, and more. It also offers an investment and bank account comparison platform.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2021Series C$51M
  • Mar 2021Conventional Debt—
Founders & team
Igal MayerPresident & CEO
Investors
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, BMO
Tech stack
Act-OnAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailAzureAzure Front Door
#6
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2018
$10Mraised
▾

Cyberboxx provides an online cyber insurance platform for small & medium businesses. It offers coverage for data hacking, data breaching, data security, and more. It also offers quoting and binding software for insurance brokers. It offers subscription-based insurance policies.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2021Series A$10M
Founders & team
Mike SenechalCo-Founder
Investors
Cyber Mentor Fund, Zurich, SixThirty, Rokk3r, Lloyd’s
#7
Acqui-Hired · Waterloo, Ontario · founded 1999 · 140 employees
$4Mraised
▾

Provider of telematics solutions for insurance. It provides telematics solutions to deliver the connected car experience. It is targeted toward usage-based insurance but also can provide a host of other services like monitoring, training, reward points, and fleet management.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2013Conventional Debt$4M
Investors
BEST Funds
#8
Acquired · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2016 · 15 employees
$2.2Mraised
▾

Zensurance is an online platform that helps startups and small businesses to manage all their business insurance needs. It lets them to identify the policies tailored to their businesses and compare rates from insurance companies. It provides insurance quotes for hotel, media, financial services, real estate, healthcare industry etc.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 30k LinkedIn followers — 25.4% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 5 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2018Seed$1.2M
  • Nov 2016Seed$1M
  • Oct 2016Grant (prize money)$25K
Investors
Ferst Capital Partners, Portage Ventures, DMZ Ventures, MaRS Discovery District, Bradford Brown
Tech stack
ActivecampaignAmazon AdvertisingAmazon AlbAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web Services
#9
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2012 · 20 employees
$120Kraised
▾

Online platform that provides location-based health & other emergency information for travelers. The app monitors health & safety threats such as disease outbreaks, violent protests, civil disruptions, extreme weather & provides location-based alerts for users. Provides emergency numbers, hospital locations, vaccination, and medication recommendations tailored to the user's itinerary. Users can also share their travel experiences on the app about safety and other local scams. The company also provides services to travel health practitioners, corporations, and insurance providers.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 2.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2018Seed—
  • 2018Seed$120K
Founders & team
Mark PavlidesAdvisor to FounderAdam JohnCo-Founder & CEORonald JohnCo-Founder
Investors
Techstars, T-Hub, Velocity, Startupbootcamp
Tech stack
AstroCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCrisp Live ChatGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#10
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2015 · 20 employees
—raised
▾

Raven Connected offers IoT-enabled vehicle tracking & driver monitoring solutions. It offers dash cameras for personal and business purposes. It offers features like vehicle monitoring, critical event detection, security alerts, Wifi-hotspots, navigation, etc. The mobile app is available for both Android and iOS devices.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 5.2% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: AWS Cloud Developer, V2X Projects Full Stack Engineer
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2022Seed—
  • Jul 2018Seed—
Investors
Celtic House Venture Partners, Graphite Ventures, MaRS IAF, Invest Ottawa, L-Spark
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesAosColibri WpCore-JsFancyboxGoogle Analytics

Funding & investor landscape

$121.8Mtotal disclosed funding
9companies funded
20disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Cyber Mentor Fund2 rounds
Invest Ottawa2 rounds
Lloyd’s2 rounds
MaRS Discovery District2 rounds
Rokk3r2 rounds
SixThirty2 rounds
Zurich2 rounds
Accelerator Centre1 rounds
Alberta Blue Cross1 rounds
AmTrust Financial1 rounds

Notable founders

Andrew Ostro
Co-Founder & CEO · PolicyMe
Laura McKay
Co-Founder & President · PolicyMe
Mark Morissette
Founder & CEO · Foxquilt
Vishal Kundi
Founder & CEO · BOXX Insurance
Igal Mayer
President & CEO · Rates.ca
Mike Senechal
Co-Founder · Cyberboxx
Mark Pavlides
Advisor to Founder · Sitata
Adam John
Co-Founder & CEO · Sitata
Prism market signals · Canada · country-scoped Prism corpus, 8,476,514 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Internet First Insurance Platforms coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

Common questions

How many Internet First Insurance Platforms companies are there in Ontario, Canada?
Radar tracks 56 indexable Internet First Insurance Platforms companies headquartered in Ontario, Canada that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Internet First Insurance Platforms companies in Ontario, Canada?
The Internet First Insurance Platforms companies in Ontario, Canada on this list have raised a combined $121.8M in disclosed equity funding across 9 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Internet First Insurance Platforms company in Ontario, Canada?
Rates.ca is the highest-funded Internet First Insurance Platforms company in Ontario, Canada, with $51M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Internet First Insurance Platforms companies in Ontario, Canada are funded?
9 of the 56 Internet First Insurance Platforms companies in Ontario, Canada on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Internet First Insurance Platforms unicorns are there in Ontario, Canada?
None of the Internet First Insurance Platforms companies in Ontario, Canada on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Ontario, Canada Internet First Insurance Platforms companies?
The most active investors in Ontario, Canada Internet First Insurance Platforms companies on this list include Cyber Mentor Fund, Invest Ottawa, Lloyd’s, MaRS Discovery District, Rokk3r.
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