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About 1B

An insurancecompany built likea technologycompany.

1B Assurance AG is an international insurance technology company focused on emerging risk, operating as a Managing General Agent. We build the underwriting capability for exposures the market has not yet learned to hold.
Position
Insurance follows technology at a distance. 1B was built to close that distance.
Every generation of technology eventually produces an insurance market. It happens slowly: the technology arrives, losses accumulate, data becomes available, and the market prices what it can finally see. That lag was tolerable when technology moved at industrial speed. It is not tolerable now.
Digital assets, artificial intelligence, robotics and tokenized infrastructure are being deployed at institutional scale today, against an insurance market that has very little historical loss experience to work from. The response of most insurers has been to withdraw, exclude or price defensively. That is a rational answer to a problem they cannot see.
1B takes the other route: build the visibility first. Verify the architecture that carries the risk, instrument it, keep the picture current, and place capacity against an exposure that is actually understood. That is a different business to conventional insurance, and it requires a different kind of company.
How we operate

Six things thatdefine how1B works.

Insurance expertise

Underwriting, structuring and placement are handled by people who have carried risk, not only described it. The wording matters as much as the technology.

Technology

1B is built as infrastructure. The data model is as much the product as the policy is, because in these classes, the evidence is the price.

International

Structured for cross-border operators. None of these risks respect a single jurisdiction, and neither does the way we place them.

Emerging risk focus

We work where exposure is real and demand is immediate, but the traditional market has not yet found a way in.

Speed of innovation

New exposure classes are addressed while they are still forming, not once they have become actuarially comfortable.

Institutional structure

1B Assurance AG operates as a Managing General Agent, and is pursuing full insurance licences in Switzerland, Luxembourg and other key jurisdictions.

Where we are looking

The next risk class is already forming.

1B tracks emerging exposure as a discipline, not as a marketing exercise. The map below is how we sequence our own work.
  1. Digital Assets
    Established

    Value held in cryptographic key material. Loss is instant and final. The market has begun to underwrite it; very few understand it.

  2. Artificial Intelligence
    Scaling

    Probabilistic systems placed inside deterministic processes. Liability moves from the tool to the decision it produced.

  3. Autonomous Systems
    Scaling

    Software given authority to act in the physical world. Causation becomes contested and severity becomes physical.

  4. Robotics
    Emerging

    Machines leave the cage and enter shared human environments. Fleet-scale systemic exposure appears for the first time.

  5. Tokenized Economies
    Emerging

    Real-world assets represented on programmable rails. The insurable object becomes the link between asset and register.

  6. Machine-to-Machine Commerce
    Horizon

    Autonomous agents transacting with autonomous agents. Counterparty risk without a human counterparty on either side.

Leadership

The team behindthe underwriting.

1B is led by its two founders.
Akin Båmstedt

CEO and Founder

Akin Båmstedt

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Amir Sultan Awan

CSO and Co-Founder

Amir Sultan Awan

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