Fulcrum, an insurance technology company that provides digital solutions for managing and distributing specialty insurance products, has acquired Megaphone and brought its team into the business, adding product and design leadership as it expands its platform for insurance brokerages.
The deal includes the appointment of Albert Hu as Founding Product Manager and Catherine Chang as Founding Product Designer.
Megaphone is a crypto-native marketing and growth platform focused on onchain campaigns, token launches, and Web3 community engagement.
Megaphone operated as a SaaS and campaign infrastructure provider rather than an agency: brands configured campaigns and fees, while Megaphone supplied the underlying technical rails, including smart contract interactions and form infrastructure.
It became a common tool for Web3-native growth agencies and in-house crypto marketing teams who wanted to combine community engagement, allowlists, and onchain attribution in one place instead of stitching together separate form tools, quest platforms, and analytics.
Albert Hu and Catherine Chang previously co-founded Megaphone, which scaled to more than five million users and supported campaigns for brands such as Coinbase and Forbes.
Their experience centers on building and scaling products in fast-moving environments, now applied to insurance workflows.
Fulcrum has spent the past few years building technology focused on insurance brokerages, targeting operational pain points that remain difficult to automate.
Account managers handle complex processes daily, including proposals, policy verification, and certificates of insurance, all of which require precision and speed. The company chose to concentrate on these workflows rather than expand broadly, and customers have responded with continued adoption.
As the platform grows, expectations around product quality and usability increase. Insurance brokerages operate with high levels of technical expertise, and software must match that standard.
Fulcrum sees product and design capability as a priority area, especially as workflows become more complex and scale increases across users.
According to Beinsure analysts, this move reflects a wider shift among insurtech firms toward deeper vertical specialization.
Companies are investing in product teams that understand industry-specific workflows rather than relying on generic software models.
Early discussions between the teams focused heavily on user needs and operational detail. Albert Hu engaged directly with customers, reviewed workflows, and identified areas where the platform could improve. Catherine Chang focused on simplifying complex systems through design while keeping functional depth intact.
Fulcrum expects the expanded team to support faster product development and improve how brokerages interact with its platform.
The company plans to continue hiring as it builds tools for an industry still dealing with legacy systems and fragmented processes.
The acquisition signals a push to raise product standards while addressing one of the more demanding segments in financial services technology.
Megaphone positioned itself as an “onchain GDP” and community-growth stack. Teams could:
- Launch and manage tokens and NFTs.
- Build allowlists and high-signal waitlists via onchain-aware forms.
- Run campaigns with quests/tasks that require verified onchain or social actions.
- Analyze wallet-level reputation and identity to filter bots and low-quality participants.
The platform emphasized anti-sybil protections, wallet-based identity, and rewarding “quality” actions (not just clicks or vanity metrics), which made it attractive for pre-TGE and airdrop-style growth programs.
