Our Story

From a West African mythical figure to an innovative, connected insurance platform. Learn what went into making the insurtech company you see today. 

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Anansi is the Spirit of Knowledge, is a popular African folklore hero. The word Ananse is Akan and means "spider".

Anansi was born from a real life understanding of the need for safe delivery of your products and services. We've been ecommerce business owners and we want to take away the complexities around goods-in- transit insurance. Enabling all business owners to offer a seamless, complaint free customer experience throughout the delivery process.

Our founding team combines a rich balance of deep ecommerce experience with insurance, fintech, machine learning, data science and high growth start-ups. Before forming an alliance to build automated insurance solutions for global businesses.

We value our employees. We also value...

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People-first

At the heart of everything.
In our products, ideas and decisions.

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Inclusion

Whole-selves welcome.
Diversity of people and dignity for all.

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Fairness

All of the time.
We act with integrity and justness.

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Transparency

Honesty is in our DNA.
Forever transparent and simplifying the complex.

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Trust and Togetherness

We are stronger as one.
Understand and respect all perspectives.

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Flexibility

Masters of our own space.
Remote-first working empowers us.

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Eagerness to Learn

We are an inquisitive bunch.
Who share and apply new skills.

Meet the team

We’re small but mighty and growing fast. Very fast.
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Megan Bingham-Walker
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
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Ana Martins De Carvalho
CO-FOUNDER & CTO
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Alex Cooper-Smith
Head of Insurance
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Vasco Correia
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
JP O'Hara
SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER
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Pedro Neto
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
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Jake Mardell
SENIOR CLAIMS MANAGER
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Rohan Watkins
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Lucas Dias
Senior Software Engineer
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Christopher Avila Holguin
Senior SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Tomás Milgron
 SOFTWARE ENGINEER

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