Insurtech Gateway is delighted to lead the £2.3m Seed round in Maximum Information (MaxInfo), alongside Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, Convex Group and Portfolio Ventures. Supporting founders tackling structurally important challenges in insurance is central to our thesis, and Tom Philp and his team are doing exactly that — addressing a widely recognised problem that remains poorly served.
What are they building?
MaxInfo is building vendor-agnostic catastrophe risk modelling software that allows (re)insurers and brokers to properly understand, interrogate, and own their view of climate risk. In a market increasingly shaped by regulation, climate uncertainty, and a rapidly diversifying landscape of modelling providers, this capability is no longer ‘nice to have’, it’s mission critical.
The tools will bring clarity and visibility to an often complex, and expensive process.
A platform building accessibility
MaxInfo’s flagship platform, MagniPhi, is a model-agnostic analytics layer that orchestrates catastrophe model data across the full evaluation chain. Rather than replacing models, it allows insurers to analyse, standardise and compare them, test assumptions, adjust for climate change, and generate regulatory-ready outputs quickly and transparently. By reducing workflow complexity and administrative burden, MagniPhi makes catastrophe modelling more accessible across catastrophe risk teams.
A founder who deeply understands the market
Tom is awesome — articulate, genuine, and brings credibility as a trusted operator. He spent his career at the intersection of catastrophe science, regulation, and insurance decision-making. During seven years at AXA XL and XL Catlin, he repeatedly encountered the same structural challenge: insurers were being asked to defend and explain model-driven decisions without having the tools to properly understand them.
That perspective is shared across MaxInfo’s leadership team, whose backgrounds span catastrophe science, actuarial pricing, underwriting, GIS engineering, and regulated insurance operations. This multidisciplinary depth is rare, and critical, in a market where credibility and trust matter just as much as technology.
Strong early traction driven by trust
They’re off to a great start. Since MagniPhi launched commercially in early 2024:
- Signed six paying enterprise (re)insurers in recurring SaaS revenue. All customers represent sophisticated buyers with high internal capability and long purchasing cycles.
- Multi-year deals secured evidencing continual demand and retention.
- Sales pipeline has more than doubled, with early signals from brokers and the insurance-linked securities market reinforcing the breadth of the opportunity.
- Product evolution: MaxInfo plans to launch a new module this year, PsiClone, a novel platform that will connect sectors, models and decisions across the full disaster risk management chain. PsiClone can be overlaid onto existing forecasting, trigger, and response systems to enable coherent decision-making from impact analysis to action, reducing fragmentation across data, systems, institutional mandates, and communication pathways.
Traction to date has been founder-led, driven by deep industry relationships, thought leadership, and strong word-of-mouth.
Seed round and beyond
We’re delighted to be working with Tom and the team, and to have led their Seed round alongside a strong syndicate of co-investors. The round will help bolster sales efforts whilst evolving the platform for new and existing customers.
Welcome to the Portfolio MaxInfo! Get in touch with the team to learn more info@maxinfo.io.