Some companies raise capital. Others raise the bar. Qumis just raised $4.3M in an oversubscribed seed round led by MTech Capital, with strategic backing from American Family Ventures, bringing total funding to $6.75M. Chicago born. Commercial insurance focused. Attorney trained AI with something to prove.
Dan Schuleman, Esq., Co founder and CEO of Qumis, is not chasing noise. He is chasing precision. The kind of precision that reads a commercial policy the way a seasoned coverage attorney does. Every exclusion. Every carve back. Every endorsement that quietly changes the game at 2 a.m. when a claim hits the desk and nobody wants surprises. Shivam Sinha, Co founder and CTO, built the engine that makes that precision scale. Multi stage legal reasoning. Proprietary document processing. Structured, citation backed answers with transparent reasoning chains and confidence signals. No black box bravado. Just receipts.
Commercial insurance is not light reading. It is a maze of definitions that talk to other definitions, towers stacked on towers, language that smiles in 1 paragraph and bites in the next. Qumis does not skim. It reasons. It compares quotes, binders, endorsements side by side. It analyzes complex policy towers before coverage gaps turn into career limiting events. It supports claims positions with expert quality logic and source linked citations. It centralizes institutional knowledge in a secure, private environment so each analysis compounds instead of evaporates.
NFP, an Aon company, started with an initial team. Then expanded to hundreds of users across the organization. Less time wrestling policy language. More time advising clients. When a broker says it feels like putting a coverage specialist at everyone’s desk, that is not marketing copy. That is operational leverage.
The signal here is not just the $4.3M. It is who leaned in. MTech Capital sees traction in large brokers and specialty carriers. American Family Ventures sees strategic alignment with the future of coverage intelligence. Participation from prior investors says the insiders doubled down. In a market shaped by social inflation, complex risks, and a talent crunch, clarity is currency.
Qumis is not trying to be everything in AI. It is focused. Insurance native. Attorney trained. Built by coverage attorneys and AI experts who understand that in this business, 1 word can move millions. When your platform reads policies like a lawyer and scales like software, the question stops being whether AI belongs in commercial insurance and starts being who is ready to operate without it.
