Vericred Expands Omaha Operations Following $23 Million Series B Funding

New York City-based Vericred (vericred.com), a data platform powering digital experiences in health insurance and employee benefits, recently announced plans to expand operations in Omaha. The InsurTech platform, which recently completed $ 23 million in Series B funding, said the Omaha location will support the doubling of Vericred’s workforce by adding an expected 30-40 highly skilled positions in the Metro. Vericred has hired a husband and wife—Matthew Leonard and Val Leonard, both formally of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska—to lead its carrier and Omaha-based enrollment teams, respectively.

“As a technology, insurance and financial services hub, Omaha is a natural fi t to support Vericred’s growth,” said Michael W. Levin, CEO and co-founder of Vericred. “We considered locations throughout the U.S. for our enrollments operations, and landed on Omaha, because of its insurance-industry talent, its emerging startup scene and its reputation as an incubator of innovation.”

Vericred’s entry into the Omaha market was facilitated by a public-private collaborative of stakeholders, including the Greater Omaha Chamber Economic Development Partnership, a seven-county collective representing 44% of Nebraska’s population, and more than 60% of the state’s GDP.

Omaha, ranked the best city in Nebraska to get a job in 2021, according to Zippia, has outpaced the nation in fi nance- and-insurance-industry growth for the past six years, increasing at a rate of 26.2% compared to national average of 7.1%.

Vericred is the way health insurance carriers and employee benefits providers connect with new technology partners to deliver seamless quote-to-card consumer experiences. They are not the websites or apps you use to choose a plan or fi nd a doctor. They are the infrastructure—the ‘pipes’ that simplify the complex exchange of quoting, enrollment, and eligibility data between carriers and the technology partners responsible for delivering health and employee benefits to hundreds of millions of Americans every day. Vericred’s APIs transmit billions of data points between InsurTech and insurance carriers, powering digital distribution across the insurance industry. To learn more about this community of insurance geeks who are creating a seamless digital quote-to-card experience, visit vericred.com.