In its Collection B funding spherical, bolttech gained $50m from LeapFrog. The spherical now totals $246m, the most important ever Collection B funding spherical for an insurtech.
bolttech will use the $50m funding to help its world development technique with a give attention to rising markets.
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As well as, it’ll develop its technology-enabled ecosystem for defense and insurance coverage for rising customers. The funds will speed up the agency’s objective of enabling the insurance coverage sector to shut the $1.8trn world safety hole.
bolttech and LeapFrog will collaborate to advertise monetary inclusion by bettering entry to important and reasonably priced insurance coverage. LeapFrog has an intensive observe file to tech-enabled insurance coverage companies in Africa and Asia will increase bolttech to focus on its merchandise to this rising market.
As a part of the funding, Fernanda Lima, associate and co-head of LeapFrog’s Asia Monetary Companies group, will be part of the bolttech board as a non-executive director.
Rob Schimek, group chief govt officer at bolttech mentioned: “We’re thrilled to welcome LeapFrog as our new strategic investor amidst a difficult financial backdrop for insurtechs and fintechs globally. We see LeapFrog’s funding as a robust validation of our distinctive enterprise proposition as we proceed to construct a greater insurance coverage expertise and guarantee individuals, particularly these in rising markets, get the safety that they want. We additionally welcome Fernanda, who will carry a useful depth and breadth of numerous expertise to our Board. We look ahead to working together with her as we obtain our imaginative and prescient of connecting individuals world wide with extra methods to guard the issues they worth.”
Fernanda Lima shared: “bolttech has established a robust place inside the insurance coverage area with its highly effective know-how platform and in depth distribution community. bolttech shares LeapFrog’s imaginative and prescient of creating important monetary options extra reasonably priced and accessible, particularly for the various rising customers in development markets. There’s a lot to be achieved to shut the safety hole, notably in rising Asia, Latin America and Africa. It’s my privilege to tackle this function and I’m excited to attract upon my expertise and work with the opposite members of the Board to steer bolttech in direction of its targets.”
