The insurance proposition is ‘hugely relevant to the world we live in now’, says former Bupa boss
Insurtech Anansi Technology has secured £1.5m seed funding led by Octopus Ventures.
Investors in Bought by Many, the $2bn pet insurtech, also joined the raise alongside other prominent angel investors – including former Bupa chief executive Evelyn Bourke, former Munich Re Digital Partners chief executive Andrew Rear, president of the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) and international head of marine at Victor Insurance Holdings Richard Turner, as well as Outrun Ventures founder Chris Adelsbach.
Automated insurance platform Anansi Technology, co-founded by Ana Martins de Carvalho and Megan Bingham-Walker, offers goods-in-transit and cargo insurance products for businesses globally.
The funding will help the company deliver new partnerships with businesses involving transporting merchandise – including companies that organise shipments, major ecommerce platforms, as well as retailers and third-party logistics firms across the UK and Europe.
It is also enabling the insurtech to launch a Shopify app on October 28 2021 – this will enable ecommerce businesses to manage their shipments alongside the company’s goods-in-transit insurance product.
Transforming insurance
Megan Walker, co-founder and chief executive at Anansi, said: “This funding round will enable us to build more sophisticated infrastructure as we scale and add new features and automations, such as damage, international shipments and fraud detection.”
Fintech investor at Octopus Ventures Nick Sando added “embedded insurance, where all covers and protections are bundled into one service, is set to transform the way people and businesses purchase insurance”.
He continued: “We are excited to be working with [Martins de Carvalho and Bingham-Walker] and the broader Anansi team.”
Investor Bourke shared she is “very excited about the insurance proposition” as it is “hugely relevant to the world we live in now”.
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