The ITC Asia Insurtech Pitch Competition recognises emerging businesses with working solutions to real insurance challenges. It is separate from the ITC Asia Awards: the Pitch Competition requires finalists to pitch live, while the Awards recognise delivered achievements and individual leadership through written submissions.

The competition has two categories and you can only apply for one: 

Insurtech Rising Star: Recognises the most promising young insurtech business. Judges assess the whole company relative to its stage: the insurance need it addresses, early customer validation, commercial model and team.

Who should apply: Founders in their first years of trading with a working product and early traction, such as pilots, letters of intent or first customers. Your strongest case is the business you're building.

Breakthrough Innovation: Recognises the insurtech solution that most clearly improves on how insurance does things today. Judges assess the solution itself: its advantage over existing approaches and the evidence that proves it.

Who should apply: Insurtechs that can show, through testing, pilot or deployment results, that their product does something materially better, faster or cheaper than current alternatives, or makes something newly possible. Company size and stage matter less here.

Is your strongest case your business or your breakthrough?
Business: enter Insurtech Rising Star. Breakthrough: enter Breakthrough Innovation.

Startups must be up to five years old at the relevant submission deadline. Concept-only entries are not eligible. Entries should demonstrate a credible connection to an insurance challenge and an opportunity to create value in Asia-Pacific.