Madrona Venture led a $16m Series A round in Anzen.

Madrona Venture, a venture capital firm, led a $16m Series A round in Anzen, a tech-enabled wholesale solution for specialty insurance, with participation from Sandbox Industries, SNR, and A16z. Anzen is attacking the hardest part of the problem—Specialty, E&S, and Casualty lines where everything is done over email and siloed databases. By combining wholesale expertise with vertical AI, they’ve built a platform that transforms the back office and outcomes delivered by independent agents and the largest brokerages,” Chris Picardo, Madrona Partner.