--- title: Y Combinator grad and AI insurance brokerage Harper... description: Harper, an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage founded by Dakotah Rice and Tushar Nair, has raised $46.8M in a combined seed and Series A round led by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/y-combinator-grad-and-ai-insurance-brokerage-harper-raises-47m-aqhtg1d6y twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Y Combinator grad and AI insurance brokerage Harper raises $47M | daily.dev og:description: Harper, an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage founded by Dakotah Rice and Tushar Nair, has raised $46.8M in a combined seed and Series A round led by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/y-combinator-grad-and-ai-insurance-brokerage-harper-raises-47m-aqhtg1d6y og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aqhTg1D6Y.png og:image:alt: Y Combinator grad and AI insurance brokerage Harper raises $47M og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Y Combinator grad and AI insurance brokerage Harper raises $47M **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Harper, an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage founded by Dakotah Rice and Tushar Nair, has raised $46.8M in a combined seed and Series A round led by Emergence Capital, with participation from YC and Peak XV Partners. A YC W'25 graduate, Harper operates as an almost fully autonomous licensed agency, matching small- to mid-sized businesses with over 160 insurance carriers. The platform handles submission routing, underwriter follow-ups, document collection, and pipeline management via AI, enabling it to process 1,000+ customers per month versus the 20–30 a typical human-led sales team manages. Harper has surpassed 5,000 customers and $54M in total funding raised in under two months. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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