5 Interesting Learnings from Guidewire at $1.24 Billion in ARR: A $1.7 Billion AI Acquisition, Its Lowest Churn Ever, and 10x ARR for a 25-Year-Old System of Record
Guidewire sells core systems to property and casualty insurers: policy, billing, and claims. It was founded in 2001. Its buyers are some of the slowest-moving in B2B. In a year when the market repriced anything that looked like legacy software, it still trades at roughly 10x ARR. Fiscal 2026 closed July 31. ARR was $1,237 million at current exchange rates, up 19% in constant currency, and fully ra…