The company that skipped the insurance agent, hired a British-accented lizard, and turned '15 minutes' into one of the most repeated sentences in American advertising.
Clupp is a Mexico City insurtech offering pay-per-kilometer insurance for cars, motorcycles, bicycles, scooters, and gadgets. Its app prices policies on how much and how well you drive, rewarding low-mileage and low-risk customers with lower premiums. Founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator (W22), Clupp partners with established carriers and reinsurers to cover claims, and has expanded into B2B SaaS tools for brokers and insurance products tied to startup financing.
Tomer Kashi is the co-founder and CEO of VOOM Insurance (and its drone brand SkyWatch), an insurtech company building usage-based, on-demand insurance for underserved mobility segments such as drones, motorcycles, e-bikes, and rideshare drivers. A graduate of Israel's elite Talpiot program with a background in computer science and physics, Kashi led technology projects inside the Israeli Prime Minister's Office cyber unit before entering insurance. He frames VOOM as 'insurtech 2.0' and the 'Lemonade for Mobility,' using new sources of data to rebuild insurance products for episodic, high-risk vehicle use.
VOOM Insurance is an insurtech company building usage-based, telematics-driven insurance for underserved mobility segments - motorcycles, drones, e-bikes, light aircraft and gig drivers. Founded in 2016 by Tomer Kashi and Ori Blumenthal, VOOM launched the world's first pay-per-mile motorcycle insurance and, through its SkyWatch division, became the leading digital drone insurance product in North America. The company charges customers based on actual usage rather than flat annual premiums, aiming to make coverage fairer for people whose vehicles sit idle for much of the year.