Ohio-based car insurance startup is set to raise $350 million in a funding round that would bring the company鈥檚 valuation to $3.65 billion, the reported on Monday.
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The Series E round will be led by new investors and , and all of Root鈥檚 existing investors also plan to participate, according to WSJ. Root currently has $177.5 million in funding, with its most recent round of $100 million raised last August.
Root uses a driver鈥檚 smartphone to gauge how well they drive, unlike traditional insurance companies, which take age, location, and how far you drive into account. Root鈥檚 smartphone app measures behaviors like braking, route regularity, and speed of turns to determine if someone is a 鈥渟afe driver鈥 and how much they should pay for insurance. Drivers can save up to 52 percent on their car insurance policy through Root, according to the company.
Root鈥檚 new round would be the single-largest funding round for a VC-backed insurance startup in 2019, followed by insurance startup , which has raised $480 million.
Lemonade, like Root, uses artificial intelligence to determine premiums, but only offers renters and homeowners insurance.

Root earned $133.4 million聽 in insurance premiums in the first half of 2019, according to WSJ, which was 12 times the amount it made in the same period last year. It also had $126.6 million in losses in the first half of the year, according to the report.
Root鈥檚 investors include , , and .
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