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US-based automotive insurance startup Noblr has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from investors including insurance group White Mountains and reinsurance provider Third Point Reinsurance, which also supplied reinsurance, it disclosed yesterday. Asset manager Hudson Structured Capital Management led the round, which was announced five months after a securities filing revealed that Noblr had secured $20m of equity funding from 10 undisclosed investors. 

Taiho Ventures, pharmaceutical firm Taiho’s corporate venturing arm, supplied…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.