NEW YORK: Flood insurance company Neptune Insurance Holdings Inc’s shareholders raised US$368.4mil in a US initial public offering (IPO), adding to the flow of insurance firms debuting this year.
The selling shareholders including co-founder Jim Albert, Bregal Sagemount and FTV Capital priced 18.4 million shares at US$20 each, the top of the marketed range of US$18 to US$20 apiece, according to a statement on Tuesday. The company is not selling any shares in the offering.
The pricing gives the St Petersburg, Florida-based insurer a market value of about US$2.8bil, based on the outstanding shares in its filings.
The offering was double-digits oversubscribed.
Accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Group Inc and AllianceBernstein Holding LP indicated an interest in buying as much as US$75mil worth of shares in the offering in aggregate, the filings showed.
Neptune is set to become the sixth US-based insurance-sector company to go public this year, with three of the five listed firms trading above their IPO prices.
The company, which was founded in 2018, uses an artificial intelligence-driven underwriting agent known as Triton to assess risks and generate a quote for customers quickly, processing over 20,000 quotes on a typical day, the filing showed.
Triton has provided more than 29.7 million insurance quotes as of June 30.
Neptune posted net income of US$22mil on US$71mil of revenue in the first six months of 2025, according to the filings.
That compares to net income of US$11mil on US$54mil in revenue during the same period a year earlier.
Co-founder and chief executive officer Trevor Burgess was previously the chief executive of C1 Financial Inc, which was acquired by Bank OZK in 2016 for about US$400mil.
Burgess is set to have about 82% of the voting power in the company following the IPO. — Bloomberg
