Amelia Risk vs TechInsurance

Amelia Risk presents itself as an independent, women-owned insurance brokerage—not as an insurer. It says it identifies a company’s risks, discusses insurance products, represents the buyer to insurers, and recommends a program. The official pages reviewed do not name a licensed producer entity suffix, license number, or NPN. ^1,2,4,20,19

TechInsurance is a small-business insurance agency and brokerage. Its legal disclosure identifies the business as a division of Specialty Program Group LLC, doing business in California as SPG Insurance Solutions. ^31,37,38

TechInsurance describes itself as part of Insureon and HUB International. Its history says HUB acquired Insureon’s digital agency in 2022 while Bold Penguin acquired the technology platform; HUB’s acquisition announcement placed the agency operations within Specialty Program Group. ^30,31,40

Amelia Risk says it is a women-owned and operated insurance brokerage in San Francisco whose team works with startups and high-growth companies. Its specialty pages address startups, better-for-you food, beverage and cosmetic (CPG) companies, technology businesses (including software, hardware, robotics, AI, autonomous-vehicle software, and life sciences), and consumer-product or accessible-luxury brands. A company-hosted podcast transcript describes a primary CPG focus and work with higher-risk product categories such as baby food, skincare, and dietary supplements. Public pages do not state minimum revenue, headcount, or funding-stage eligibility. ^{1,3,4,5,6,7,8,22}

TechInsurance markets to small businesses, including startups and freelancers, with a technology focus spanning software developers, SaaS companies, IT consultants and managed service providers. Its catalogue also serves traditional industries. ^36,35

New business starts with a conversation or website contact form, not a public self-service binder. Amelia Risk describes four steps: understand the company and gather information; represent the buyer to insurers; review quotes and a recommendation with the client; then the client decides how to proceed. About copy says the firm will not ask clients to complete multiple PDFs or Word documents only to print, sign, and scan them back. A company-hosted interview describes D&O underwriting as possibly a matter of days or a few weeks with completed information, with a two-to-three-week comfortable budget—an illustrative timing comment, not a binding SLA. No public quote calculator or specimen application was found. ^{4,18,2,5,20,22}

TechInsurance describes a single application for comparing multiple insurance quotes, followed by policy purchase and online coverage management, with licensed-agent guidance available. ³⁰

TechInsurance’s account instructions warn that quotes may take time to appear after an application is submitted; an application is not confirmation of bound coverage. ³¹

Amelia Risk publishes an Insurance Policies catalogue covering general liability and umbrella or excess, stock throughput (cargo), product recall, directors and officers (D&O), employment practices liability (EPL), workers compensation, cyber, and technology errors and omissions (Tech E&O). Specialty pages also list product liability, fiduciary liability, professional liability, a businessowner’s policy (BOP) with property, general liability, and hired and non-owned auto, owned and hired/non-owned auto, and employee crime as policies those clients should consider. Those labels are the firm’s marketed placement topics; they are not specimen forms, and they do not establish that every line is available to every applicant. ^{9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,5,6,7,8}

TechInsurance markets technology errors and omissions coverage as a bundle of E&O and cyber liability insurance. Confirm the actual forms and whether the offered cyber protection addresses both the company’s own losses and liability to clients. ³⁵

Its marketed catalogue includes general liability, professional E&O, cyber, workers’ compensation, business owner’s policies, commercial property, commercial auto, umbrella, directors and officers, employment practices liability, and fidelity bonds. It also lists contractors’ tools and equipment coverage and offers agent assistance with surety bonds. ^34,29,36,31

The reviewed official pages do not disclose broker commissions, contingent commissions, client fees, retainers, or premium examples. A 2021 blog post invites a free consultation. Absence of a published fee schedule is not evidence that insurance placement is free. ^{1,2,4,18,19,20,21}

TechInsurance directs buyers to SPG’s compensation disclosure, which describes insurer commissions, contingent and supplemental payments, and possible negotiated client fees. Some placements may involve both commission and client-paid fees; quote-specific amounts are not disclosed there. ^37,38

SPG discloses that strategic insurers may pay enhanced compensation and that some of it may incentivize employees to prioritize those insurers’ products. Ask which markets were approached and how the placement is compensated. ³⁸