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Michele Grosso and the distance between a policy and a person
He learned insurance inside AXA and MetLife. With Democrance, Michele Grosso set out to shorten the journey between an insurer and the people its usual channels never reached.
Democrance
Democrance is a Dubai-based B2B insurtech that sells insurers a lightweight, cloud-based core platform - Democrance Pulse - which sits on top of legacy systems rather than replacing them. Founded in 2015 by Michele Grosso, Alberto Perez and Dr. Damian Dimmich, the company began by trying to sell low-cost microinsurance to people in emerging markets who had never held a policy, then discovered that the real bottleneck was the insurers' own technology. Today its no-code product configurator, distribution portals, underwriting engine and API library let carriers including AXA, MetLife, AIG, Manulife, Zurich, Tokio Marine and Sukoon launch and administer life, health and P&C products in days rather than months, across 15-plus markets in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America. The mainstream book cross-subsidises the microinsurance one, which is how a financial-inclusion mission survives contact with a P&L.
Inclusivity Solutions
Inclusivity Solutions is a Cape Town-based inclusive insurtech that designs and delivers embedded, affordable digital insurance for emerging consumers across Africa. Through its open-API platform ASPin, it partners with banks, telcos, insurers and fintechs to build, sell and administer low-cost products - life, accident, hospital cash, device and crop cover - distributed via mobile channels people already use. The company operates in roughly ten African markets and has served over two million customers.