Leapstack Raised Nearly 150 Million Yuan in Series C Round Financing, Catalyzing Transformation of Intelligent Risk Control in Healthcare Insurance
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SHANGHAI, Jan. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--
Recently, Shanghai Leapstack Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as
Leapstack), an insurtech company, announced that it had raised a Series C round
of 150 million yuan. This round of fundraising was led by Legend Capital,
followed by Peakview Capital, GF Qianhe Investment and Huazhi Capital, with
Mountain View Capital acting as the fundraising consultant.
In recent years, insurtech companies are embracing a more "automated" future
with open arms amid the digital transformation of the insurance industry,
especially healthcare insurance. Cutting-edge technologies such as artificial
intelligence and big data are transforming every area of the insurance value
chain, including products, pricing, channels, operations, underwriting and
claims settlement.
Among them, RPA (Robot Process Automation), which mimics and enhances the way
humans interact with software to perform repetitive, standardized and
high-volume tasks, has become one of the powerful tools to accelerate the
digital transformation of the insurance industry.
Founded in 2016, Leapstack is the explorer of "RPA + AI" in healthcare
insurance in China, offering services to regulatory bodies such as commercial
insurance companies, medical insurance bureaus and audit departments with
enterprise-level big data risk control solutions through the one-stop
intelligent risk control platform powered by RPA+AI.
Up to now, Leapstack has inked close partnerships with hundreds of companies,
including China Life Insurance, PICC, China Taiping, CPIC, China Insurance,
Ping An Insurance, Taikang Insurance, China Continent Insurance, Sunshine
Insurance, AIA, AXA, CITIC Prudential Life Insurance, Sun Life Everbright Life
Insurance, Generali China, Foresea Life Insurance, Hyundai Insurance, Hannover
Re, China Merchants Bank, ICBC Technology, Merck Sharp & Dohme, BeiGene, CIIC,
Jiang Tai Insurance Broker, Huatai Insurance Agency & Consultant Service,
Shuidi Insurance, Easy Raising (Qingsongchou), Yidu Cloud, WeDoctor, Medbanks,
Yuanxin Technology, Xiaomi Insurance, and Shanghai Insurance Exchange.
Empowering Intelligent Risk Control in Health Insurance with "RPA + AI"
As one of the digital transformation trends for enterprises, RPA has been
attracting increasing attention from global capital in recent years. McKinsey
revealed that the global RPA market is forecast to grow to 100 billion US
dollars in 2025, with an annual rate of 64%, becoming one of the
fastest-growing technologies in AI related fields.
In April this year, UiPath, a global RPA head manufacturer, was listed on the
New York Stock Exchange, marking one of the largest software IPOs in U.S.
history, with a market value of over 26 billion US dollars. The successful IPO
of UiPath again attracted venture capital funds to pile into RPA in China. The
statistics of business cards suggest that there have been 13 financing events
in China's RPA sector this year, double that of 2020, with more than 1 billion
yuan raised.
As for the insurance industry, despite broad prospects, domestic healthcare
insurance in particular, is plagued by low penetration, high operating costs,
high compensation risks, and lack of standardized data formats for
availability, placing mounting pressure on relevant participants.
On the one hand, payment pressure of domestic medical insurance increases
resulting from impacts such as aging population and rising medical expenses,
causing medium-to-long-term sustainability risks. Therefore, the government has
given the top priority to curbing the spending of healthcare insurance in the
latest round of medical reform. On the other hand, for fast-growing commercial
health insurance, controlling spending while expanding the scale is the key to
improving the sustainability of products.
Therefore, controlling the spending of healthcare and commercial insurance has
become a matter of concern among all parties in the industry.
In such a context, Leapstack, by employing "RPA + AI", has built multiple
platforms such as intelligent claim management platform for health insurance,
intelligent investigation, intelligent audit of government healthcare coverage,
long-term care intelligent management platform, big data anti-money laundering
platform, big data governance platform, etc. Aside from providing the
whole-process claim settlement and risk control services for commercial
insurance and reinsurance institutions and insurance brokerage companies,
Leapstack can also provide intelligent risk control, fund management,
intelligent audit, data governance, anti-money laundering and other services
for medical insurance departments, audit institutions and banks, and
decision-making assistance for relevant policy formulation and adjustment.
Taking health insurance claims as an example. As traditional insurance claims
require a wide range of time-consuming manual tasks such as reporting,
information extraction and adjustment, such insurance claims are often
error-prone and inefficient. The automated claims adjustment engine provided by
Leapstack follows the custom rules of insurance companies and supports
automated determination of reimbursement coverage and amount, which shortens
the claim time, improves operational efficiency and reduces manual errors.
"At present, "RPA + AI" technology has been applied to the entire healthcare
insurance claims process. Empowered by "RPA + AI", Leapstack integrated each
link of claims process including case reporting, information extraction,
adjustment, fee calculation, etc." said Jason Liu, the founder of Leapstack.
Additionally, Leapstack developed a machine learning model and medical
knowledge map to cater the needs of underwriting, claim settlement, customer
service, and investigation in different types of insurance such as medical
treatment and serious illness. These products support effective detection of
the risk points in the process of underwriting and claims settlement at the
data level, and precise cost control of all core links of insurance. Its big
data and AI empower insurance pricing reversely and predict the risks of
different combinations of liability clauses in insurance products accurately,
thus diversifying products and expanding the scope of underwriting users.
As Top-notch Professionalism Has Earned Growing Capital, Leapstack Is
Well-positioned to Gain a Strong Foothold in Asia-Pacific
Since its establishment, Leapstack has completed several rounds of fundraising,
with shareholders including Gaorong Capital, Fomou Assets, DCM, Puhua Capital,
Danhua Capital, Lingfeng Capital, FinVolution Group (NYSE:FINV), Uphonest
Capital, 360 DigiTech (NASDAQ: QFIN), Huazhi Capital and GF Qianhe Investment,
etc.
As for the reasons behind the growing capital that Leapstack received, Jason
emphasized that the key lies in "comprehensiveness". This includes not only
technical prowess, team members, but also brand influence.
Start with technology.
RPA + AI technology is one of the advantages enjoyed by Leapstack.
Nevertheless, Jason argued that "Though technology is important, it's not the
most important. The key is to find suitable scenarios where technology can be
applied, and then make refinements as the business grows. Despite almost six
years of growth, Leapstack has only carried out preliminary application of the
technical concept and framework of RPA + AI in some specific scenarios, and
there is still much room for growth in the future and time is required for
constant refinements."
Second, the core team of Leapstack. The founding team is from top technology
companies in Silicon Valley, with a core team composed of senior technical
experts, insurance professionals and medical doctors. The team has rich
experience in artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing technology and
insurance risk control.
When it comes to future business layout, Jason said that Leapstack would
continue to gain a stronghold in the Asia-Pacific insurance market while
expanding domestic market presence. By the end of 2018, Leapstack established
Leapstack International Headquarters in Hong Kong, and joined Hong Kong
Cyberport and InvestHK Project. Starting from the Hong Kong market, Leapstack
International has spent three years exploring the application of RPA + AI in
the Asia-Pacific insurance market. At present, stable partnerships have been
established in Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand, and the risk control
model and RPA + AI system have been successfully applied in local commercial
insurance companies and medical insurance regulators.
"For Leapstack, our next step is to make a push to expand the Asia-Pacific
market, especially in Southeast Asia and other countries where business has
started to grow. Steady efforts will be made to launch a world-class insurance
platform empowered by RPA + AI, a risk control model and better operational
service capabilities." Jason revealed.
SOURCE: Leapstack
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