Maximum Information has closed its £2.3 million seed round, led by Insurtech Gateway with participation from Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, Convex and Portfolio Ventures.
In 2024, less than 40% of the $417 billion in economic losses from natural catastrophes were insured. Despite decades of progress in catastrophe modelling, the global protection gap still stands at $263bn, leaving governments, businesses and communities exposed.
Risk carriers face rapidly evolving peril patterns, growing exposure complexity and a diversifying landscape of modelling providers. While these developments create new opportunities, many risk managers still lack the orchestration tools needed to compare, adjust, stress-test or unify outputs across providers. Without a vendor-agnostic translation layer, adoption slows, uncertainty increases and model users struggle to build resilience.
Maximum Information is developing the first vendor-agnostic middleware for catastrophe risk analytics, enabling risk carriers, brokers and financial institutions to make mission-critical decisions with greater confidence. Working with its customers, the company is targeting a generational opportunity to build resilience by enabling user-led catastrophe risk transfer decisions.
Its flagship platform, MagniPhi, integrates seamlessly into cat-modelling workflows and enables risk carriers to look under the hood of their models with speed and clarity, supporting faster, sharper and more reliable analysis.
“As the modelling landscape expands the industry needs reliable infrastructure, not more noise,” said Tom Philp, Chief Executive Officer of Maximum Information. “Our goal is to provide the analytical foundation that allows organisations to lean into catastrophe risk decision-making with consistency and confidence.”
Dom Nolan, Investment Manager at Insurtech Gateway, stated, “Maximum Information solves a critical problem at the centre of emerging cat modelling trends. (Re)insurers and brokers are facing increasing pressure to better understand risk, and vendors are continuously updating / building new models across global peril-regions. Insurtech Gateway is delighted to partner with Tom and his exceptionally equipped team in building a vendor-agnostic platform of B2B SaaS tools that help risk carriers understand, quantify, and manage catastrophe and climate-related risks.”
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