Corporate units Axa Venture Partners, MassMutual Ventures and Transamerica Ventures all returned for a round that nearly trebled the insurance marketplace's overall funding.

US-based insurance comparison marketplace Policygenius received $100m yesterday in a series D round featuring Axa Venture Partners, MassMutual Ventures and Transamerica Ventures, investing on behalf of insurers Axa, MassMutual and Aegon.

Investment firm KKR’s Next Generation Technology Fund II led a round that also featured venture capital firms Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Revolution Ventures and Susa Ventures. It brought the company’s total funding up to $151m.

Policygenius runs an online platform that enables users to pick policies supplied by a…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.