Shepherd vs Hoppscotch
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YC-backed construction insurance MGA with technology-enabled underwriting for GC general liability and workers' comp; $22.3M with $13.5M Costanoa Series A achieving 5x GWP growth for construction sector insurance.
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Shepherd Insurance is a New York-based insurance technology company providing technology-enabled commercial insurance specifically for the construction industry — writing General Liability, Commercial Auto, Workers' Compensation, and Excess Liability policies for general contractors and construction enterprises. Founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator with $22.3 million raised including a $13.5 million Series A led by Costanoa Ventures, Shepherd achieved five-fold growth in Gross Written Premiums year-over-year and expanded from one to four commercial insurance product lines serving the high-risk and underserved construction insurance market.
Open-source browser-based API testing platform with 500K+ developers; $3M seed from OSS Capital competing with Postman as a lightweight, self-hostable alternative for REST and GraphQL testing.
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Hoppscotch is an open-source API development and testing platform — providing a web-based, lightweight alternative to Postman and Insomnia for building, testing, and documenting REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, and gRPC APIs. Founded in 2019 by Liyas Thomas and Andrew Bastin in Kochi, India, Hoppscotch has grown to 500,000+ developers globally using the platform, raised $3 million in seed funding led by OSS Capital with participation from Automattic (WordPress.com parent), and offers a free open-source version alongside Hoppscotch Pro cloud with team collaboration and private workspaces.
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