We build and invest in businesses where our expertise makes a difference - anticipating the potential of the future insurance industry and accelerating the development of the strengths and capabilities that will matter tomorrow.
Gossmann & Cie. is an entrepreneurial investment group focused on acquiring, building, transforming and stewarding businesses that will be mission-critical to the insurance industry.
We build and invest in businesses with the potential to fundamentally reshape the insurance industry.
Across the Group, we combine deep industry expertise, entrepreneurial mastery and hands-on experience in researching, developing and deploying artificial intelligence since 2021.
- Industry Expertise
- Entrepreneurial Mastery
- Artificial Intelligence
Who we are
The Art of Building Tomorrow
Gossmann & Cie. is an entrepreneurial Group dedicated to building, rebuilding and stewarding companies for a new era. Across our Group, we combine industry, transformation and regulatory experience with artificial intelligence to create enduring businesses for tomorrow.
They all share our mission:
The art of building tomorrow.
Building for a new era
The confluence of challenges and complexity facing companies today is unprecedented. Artificial intelligence alone marks a paradigm change and brings both, enormous opportunity and potential threat. As AI significantly expands corporate and individual capabilities, it is redefining how value is created, how organisations compete and where future alpha is built.
We have invested in AI since 2021, building on decades of experience in insurance and business transformation within regulated environments. We apply this technological advantage and expertise to the businesses we establish, acquire and develop.
Portfolio
The mission of our houses is to craft and build the value of tomorrow for our clients.
DGTAL develops and operates AI agents for regulated and data-sensitive industries – digital specialists designed to perform complex tasks autonomously and reliably. Combining a proprietary platform built over five years with deep experience in insurance and other data-inten- sive environments, we craft each agent for its specific workflow and re- main responsible for its performance from implementation through pro- ductive operation and continuous improvement
GC Partners works alongside investors, boards and senior executives through periods of fundamental change – helping them identify where lasting competitive advantage can be created, where future alpha lies, and supporting them from strategic direction through execution.
HISTORY
FOUNDATION CORPORATE HISTORY
Gossmann & Cie. was founded in 2018 by Arndt Gossmann, following the successful transformation of DARAG. Under his leadership, the former AIG subsidiary was transformed into Europe’s leading run-off insurance group.
This experience shaped the conviction behind Gossmann & Cie.: established industries will undergo fundamental change, while regulated business face the additional challange of navigating increasingly complex environments. This is both a challenge and an opportunity. It creates exceptional potential for those who combine entrepreneurial vision with deep industry expertise, regulatory understanding and the ability to see ahead.
These principles continue to guide Gossmann & Cie. in identifying, investing in and shaping insurance businesses for the future.
THE ART OF BUILDING TOMORROW.
ABOUT ARNDT GOSSMANN
Arndt Gossmann is an entrepreneur and insurance executive with more than three decades of expe- rience at the intersection of insurance, transfor- mation and technology.
After starting his career in banking and digital financial services, he joined
KPMG, where he es- tablished the German insurance restructuring practice and
advised leading European financial institutions on complex transformations and
trans-
actions (…)
He subsequently moved from advising companies to building them, transforming a distressed AIG subsidiary into DARAG, Europe’s leading run-off insurance group.
In 2018, Arndt founded Gossmann & Cie. as an entrepreneurial holding and management company. In 2019, he initiated a specialty insurance joint venture with Munich Re and, in 2021, he initiated DGTAL, which became part of the Group in 2023.
Today, he holds various board positions across the financial industry and supports academic research into how AI can shape the future of industries. He is a trusted adviser to investors, boards, senior executives and regulators.
STRUCTURE
GOSSMANN & CIE. GROUP
Portfolio Companies
DGTAL GmbH, Hamburg
AGENTIC AI
GC PARTNERS LTD, VALETTA
INSURANCE INVESTMENTS
IMPACT
OUR INVESTMENT FOCUS
| Our expertise |
Build Building new businesses, platforms and propositions from the ground up. | Invest Invest: Investing and co-investing in insurance businesses with the potential to make a difference in tomorrow’s markets. | AI AI: Deploying highly secure AI agents across existing systems to transform operations, enhance performance and unlock new competitive advantages. | Transform Transform: Transforming business models and organisations for new market realities. |
Regulatory expertise Regulatory expertise: We contribute our experience as insurance business owners, regulatory expertise and established standing with regulators to build trusted, sustainable businesses. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insurance | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Technology | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Co-Investors / PE |
No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
PORTFOLIO
Our portfolio companies are built around two complementary investment cases. Building and delivering artificial intelligence to help data-sensitive industries like the insurance sector reorganise and reshape the way they operate, while creating a significant competitive advantage.
DGTAL
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DGTAL develops and operates AI agents for regulated and data-sensitive industries – digital specialists designed to perform complex tasks autonomously and reliably. Combi- ning a proprietary platform built over five years with deep experience in insurance and other data-intensive environ- ments, DGTAL crafts each agent for ist specific workflow and remains responsible for ist performance from imple- mentation through productive operation and continuous improvement.
GC PARTNERS
INSURANCE INVESTMENTS
GC Partners is the Group’s investment vehicle for operating insurance businesses, including acquisitions, new ventures, run-off portfolios and special situations. Working independently or alongside co-investors, GC Partners establishes, acquires and develops insurance businesses positioned to benefit from technological change and accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence. Its objective is to build insurance businesses that convert technological and AI-driven transformation into sustainable, long-term value.
ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIPS
INSTITUTE OF INSURANCE ECONOMICS –
UNIVERSITY OF ST. GALLEN
The Institute of Insurance Economics (IVW) is one of Euro- pe’s leading academic institutions for risk management and insurance economics. Since 1949, it has brought together academic research and industry practice to address the op- portunities and challenges shaping the insurance sector. Gossmann & Cie. supports IVW and its dialogue between academia and industry. We believe the fundamental chan- ges ahead require both entrepreneurial action and inde- pendent academic research into how technology, regulation and changing customer expectations will shape the future of insurance.
Arndt Gossmann is a member of the Board of the Institute of Insurance Economics.
INSTITUTE FOR DIGITALISATION
AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH –
CODIVE
CoDiVe is an independent, interdisciplinary and non-profit re- search organisation exploring the interaction between people and technology in the digital age. Its research spans human- machine interaction, cognition and decision-making, trust in technology, AI adoption, learning and organisational change.
Gossmann & Cie. is among the founding partners of CoDiVe and actively supports its research projects. We share the conviction that realising the potential of AI requires a deeper understanding of how people interact with, trust and ultima- tely adopt new technologies.
events | Annual Letter
EVENTS
Annual Letter
Beginning in January 2027, the Annual Letter will reflect on the year behind us and share our perspective on the developments shaping the businesses and industries of tomorrow.
First Annual Letter: January 2027