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Anansi
Automated goods-in-transit insurance
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Enterprise
- Logistics
- Insurance
- Freight
- API
- Holborn, London, UK
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Company mission
To digitise goods-in-transit insurance to make it faster, fairer, and more flexible for ecommerce businesses.
57% female employees
Our take
Global ecommerce sales are at an all time high, bolstered by the recent pivot away from brick-and-mortar retail. This has driven up demand for insurance products to tackle missing deliveries, fraud, and product liability among the growing number of ecommerce businesses. Anansi, the recently launched goods-in-transit insurance platform, is looking to provide a full-service solution.
Anansi’s focus on providing one-click, frictionless onboarding and claims resolutions will make it an appealing service to the growing number of smaller businesses. Especially those who might lack the resources and infrastructure to have dedicated insurance teams. So, Anansi was especially astute to have launched its service exclusively on Shopify to begin with.
With new funding under its belt, Anansi is now focusing on building out its products and expanding its footprint beyond its UK/EU Shopify-based audience. If it can handle this upscale whilst delivering truly frictionless insurance products, the team could make impressive headway.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Share options
- Fully remote
- Flexible hours
- Self-care Fridays
- 25 days + public holidays
Company values
- People-first - In our products, our ideas, our decisions. You are always at the centre
- Inclusion - We value diversity of people, of ideas, and dignity for all. Whole-selves welcome
- Fairness - Integrity and justness in how we treat people and behave. All of the time
- Transparency - In an industry plagued by complexities, truth, openness, and honesty are embedded in our DNA
- Trust and Togetherness - We seek to understand, respect, and support every perspective. We’re stronger as one
- Flexibility - Remote-first working empowers us to be the masters of our own space with family and furry-friend work patterns at our core
- Eagerness to learn - We are an inquisitive bunch. We thrive on sharing and applying new knowledge and skills to improve our individual and organisational performance
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2021
$1.9m
SEED
Total funding: $1.9m
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Leadership
Megan Bingham-Walker
(CEO)14 years of experience in fintech, high growth SMEs, machine learning and data science, including 6 years in venture capital at WHEB Partners. Former ecommerce seller.
8+ years of experience of software engineering, specialising in backend development. Ex-MoneyFarm and BNP Paribas Risk Systems Department.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Anansi
Ana Martins de Carvalho (Co-founder & CTO)
- As two diverse founders, we have put D&I at the core of the company values.
- People-first - In our products, our ideas, our decisions. You are always at the centre
- Inclusion - We value diversity of people, of ideas, and dignity for all. Whole-selves welcome
- Flexibility - Remote-first working empowers us to be the masters of our own space with family and furry-friend work patterns at our core
- Megan is the Chairperson of the Insurtech UK Sub-Committee on D&I, so we are also working to shift practices within our market segment.
- This was a recent interview on D&I at Anansi with Megan https://rb.gy/ac4xdk