Herald, a digital infrastructure that connects software developers to commercial insurance carriers through a single API, announced today that it has raised $8 million in new funding. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Underscore and Afore Capital, along with angel investors Garrett Koehn (President of brokerage, CRC Group), Rotem Iram (Founder and CEO, At-Bay), and Charley Ma (General Manager, Alloy) among others. With this new funding, Herald will expand its product and engineering teams, scale support for additional lines of business, and accelerate integrations with its carrier partners.