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Delivery impacting ecommerce

How much is insurance really worth to ecommerce?

In e-commerce, the delivery experience often serves as the final and perhaps most critical touchpoint between a retailer and its customers.
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Megan Bingham-Walker: ‘Insurance on the agenda’ for retailers as festive season parcel piracy ramps up

There is a fraudulent trend emerging around parcel theft that could spur new products in the insurance industry, says chief executive
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RETAILERS TAKE HIT WITH 75% OF TRANSIT-RELATED COMPLAINTS: VITESSE SUPPORTS ANANSI TO PROVIDE RELIEF

As we enter the festive period, ensuring parcels arrive - whether it's to the gift sender or receiver - is crucial. Both consumers and retailers continue to feel the pinch, meaning every single penny counts.
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Retailers Take Hit With 75% Of Transit-related Complaints: Vitesse Supports Anansi To Provide Relief

Insurtech, Vitesse, works with Anansi to simplify and reinvent the transit insurance process, helping to provide faster claims and take the strain off retailers.
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Logistics Business: eCommerce Retailer Parcel Insurance

Anansi, the insurtech company, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with Despatch Cloud, a provider of eCommerce shipping and warehouse management solutions.
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Anansi partners with Tokio Marine HCC, Liberty Mutual and Arch Insurance to Unveil Parametric Goods-In-Transit Cover for Large Retailers

Award-winning insurtech firm Anansi is pleased to collaborate with Tokio Marine HCC, Liberty Mutual and Arch Insurance to introduce a pioneering parametric goods-in-transit insurance tailored for large retailers.
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Parametric Insurtech Anansi Announces Triple Partnership with Tokio Marine HCC, Liberty Mutual and Arch Insurance

UK insurtech Anansi has announced a triple collaboration with Tokio Marine HCC, Liberty Mutual and Arch Insurance to introduce a pioneering parametric goods-in-transit insurance tailored for large retailers.
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Anansi partners with Tokio Marine HCC, Liberty Mutual and Arch Insurance

Award-winning insurtech firm Anansi is pleased to collaborate with Tokio Marine HCC, Liberty Mutual and Arch Insurance to introduce a pioneering parametric goods-in-transit insurance tailored for large retailers.
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From Underwriting to AI: The Tech Making Insurance Disappear

What does it truly mean for insurance to be “embedded”, and how is technology, especially AI, reshaping the way we think about and interact with insurance.
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Two UK-based insurtechs selected by Google to receive Black Founders Fund

Megan Bingham-Walker, co-founder and chief executive of Anansi, told Insurance Times that the firm was “honoured” to be selected for the fund.
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How embedded insurance is creating a seamless user experience for both consumers and merchants

Today, consumers interact with embedded insurance without realising it. It’s so commonplace you don’t hesitate as you add travel insurance to your cart while booking the flight for your next summer holiday in Croatia, or think twice as you ask for inclusive coverage when renting a vehicle from the car rental company before driving to your seaview Airbnb.
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Anansi partners with Wowcher to embed digital goods-in-transit insurance into their shipping process

Anansi partners with Wowcher to embed digital goods-in-transit insurance into their shipping process

Anansi has partnered with Wowcher, the leading ecommerce marketplace that showcases experiences and luxuries at an affordable price, to extend embedded goods-in-transit insurance across the Wowcher product range.
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Embedding insurance into the supply chain

Embedding insurance in the supply chain

Supply chains are facing multiple risks right now, causing delays and vulnerabilities across the chain. How can embedded insurance help to mitigate the risks.
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Enhanced compensation called into question

Enhanced compensation called into question?

With the usual seasonal flurry of courier nightmares, Megan Bingham-Walker from Anansi looks at the case of liability and compensation
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The 100 Startups transforming 2023

The 100 startups transforming 2023

15th annual Startups 100 list celebrates the most disruptive and innovative new UK businesses based on five criteria.
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Runner Up Anansi e-commerce award 2023

Startups 100 2023 | E-Commerce shortlist and award winner

On average, only 10% of all transported goods are insured. While the e-commerce sector has boomed in recent years...
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How merchants currently use (or don’t use) insurance

While Black Friday comes to a close, there is still a real concern over the lack of protection that merchants, especially those in e-commerce, have for their goods-in-transit.
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How can ecommerce merchants protect their bottom line.

How can merchants protect bottom lines in current economic climate?

With many e-commerce merchants overlooking the level of cover required for their goods-in-transit, couriers continue to bear a huge amount of responsibility when it comes to customer experience.
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Anansi ranks #5 InsurTech 50 BusinessCloud 2022

Anansi Ranks #5 in UK InsurTech 50 for 2022

BusinessCloud reveals its InsurTech 50 innovation ranking for 2022. The InsurTech 50 celebrates businesses of all sizes creating original tech for insurance advice, products and claims.
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Anansi selected Lloyd's Lab

Lloyd’s Lab announces the InsurTechs joining its ninth cohort

Lloyd’s, the world’s leading marketplace for commercial, corporate and specialty risk solutions, has today announced the next nine InsurTech companies that will join the ninth cohort of the Lloyd’s Lab
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Anansi selected Lloyd's Lab

Anansi selected as 1 of 9 Insurtechs to join Lloyd’s Lab Accelerator

Anansi has been selected to join the ninth Lloyd’s Lab accelerator programme, further demonstrating the positive momentum in the business.
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The start-ups for Cohort 9 of the Lloyd’s Lab accelerator programme

BI and loan default parametric specialists feature in latest Lloyd’s Lab cohort.
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Anansi partners with Arch on embedded goods-in-transit insurance

The partnership will see Arch provide the insurance capacity and act as underwriters for Anansi’s goods-in-transit embedded insurance platform
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Arch, Anansi team up on embedded goods-in-transit insurance

Arch Insurance International will be providing capacity to insurtech Anansi’s goods-in-transit embedded insurance platform, which is designed to serve the UK’s e-commerce sector.
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Anansi partners with insurer to offer embedded goods-in-transit insurance

The collaboration aims to address current market pains resulting from an ‘antiquated’ method.
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Anansi partners with Arch Insurance International

The partnership sees Arch provide insurance capacity and act as underwriters for Anansi’s goods-in-transit embedded insurance platform.
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Will insurtech always need the traditional insurance industry?

Insurtech is booming, due in part to the increase in e-commerce activity and technology innovation but what role do traditional insurers still have to play?
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Tech Nation welcomes UK’s most exciting fintech’s to cohort 5.0

Tech Nation announces the 51 companies who have been accepted into Fintech 5.0 – the fifth iteration of Tech Nation’s sector-specific growth programme for fin and insurtech entrepreneurs to enable their startups to scale, both at home and abroad.
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Insurtech AI: Why automation is the future of insurance

From underwriting to risk assessment and data management, automation innovation is the new superpower for insurance companies.
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What impact is the recession having on goods-in-transit insurance?

Megan Bingham-Walker, co-founder and CEO of Anansi, discusses the effects of the pending recession on macroeconomics and the benefits of choosing the right goods-in-transit insurance.
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Fundraising Stories: Transforming InsurTech from the Inside Out

Megan shares her fundraising journey as a female founder. How she navigated it, what she has learnt along the way and tips for other founders.
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Embedded Insurance & Streamlined Customer Journeys

Customer expectations now far exceed the first iteration of embedded insurance, we expect a quality frictionless experience across the entire customer journey, including beyond 'the checkout'....welcome embedded insurance 2.0.
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Inspiring Women in Fintech Interview: Megan Bingham-Walker

Megan Bingham-Walker, Co-Founder and CEO of Anansi Technology, talks about how to process frustrations, the need for evidence of traction in the fundraising process, and more.
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How Embedded Insurtech Will Change the Face of E-commerce

In the future, some of the ways insurtech will revolutionise e-commerce include insurance when it is needed and an improved claims experience.
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Co founders

London’s automated insurance platform grabs £1.5M funding

During the pandemic crisis, global e-commerce sales have surged and are estimated to reach $6.3 billion by 2024.
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Evelyn Bourke

Former bosses at Munich Re Digital and Bupa back insurtech’s £1.5m raise

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.
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16 Black female founders in the UK who have raised funding

Megan Bingham-Walker is the cofounder of insurtech company Anansi, which offers automated insurance products for ecommerce businesses.
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Co founders

Guide to online business insurance

2021 has seen a huge growth in independent retail, with an ever increasing list of businesses starting to sell their physical products online.
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The list: September’s hottest European seed investments

September was a big month for European seed investments. 238 companies announced seed funding: the highest figure for the past few months — and the real figure is probably slightly bigger because of the reporting lag.
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Insurathon 2020

Anansi wins Norton Rose Fulbright Insurathon 2020

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright is delighted to announce Anansi as the winner of Insurathon 2020.
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How two tech women are connecting ecommerce and insurance

E-commerce companies often struggle to find the right insurance. Two London-based founders are on a mission to change that: With their startup Anansi, Megan Bingham-Walker and Ana Martins de Carvalho offer online merchants an easy way to cover their shipments against losses and delays with just one click.
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