We're hiring! 👉🏾 https://root.co.za/careers
Root is an end-to-end digital insurance platform that enables you to launch new products and digital engagement channels fast. We package all the compliance, regulatory and reporting complexities behind easy-to-use APIs, allowing your team to focus on great customer experiences.
With Root you can:
- Rapidly launch new products
- Easily open up new digital channels and payment methods to drive growth faster
- Optimize your claims teams to ensure great customer service
- Equip your team to work remotely
Root is cloud-based, and requires no on-premise installation.
Root was founded by Louw Hopley and Malan Joubert. We are a startup based in Cape Town, South Africa, and we are hiring!
Location: South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2016
Investors 3
Mentions in press and media 13
| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.11.2021 | Luno and Invenfin back Root insurance API in $3m seed round | Cape Town-based low-code insurance platform start-up Root closed a $3 million seed funding round to help expand its infrastructure build to support the digital insurance economy. Primary backers Invenfin, Base Capital, Savannah Fund, P1 Ven... |
| 12.11.2021 | Luno and Invenfin back Root insurance API in $3m seed round | Cape Town-based low-code insurance platform start-up Root closed a $3 million seed funding round to help expand its infrastructure build to support the digital insurance economy. Primary backers Invenfin, Base Capital, Savannah Fund, P1 Ven... |
| 11.11.2021 | South Africa’s Root gets $3M, plans to expand low-code insurance platform to Europe | Insurance lags behind other financial services in the adoption of digital technologies. Granted, a few unicorns have popped up from the modern digital insurance space such as Tractable and Lemonade; however, this sector hasn’t raced to the ... |
| 01.03.2021 | African FinTech trends in a post-Covid world | Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new... |
| 26.01.2021 | MTN, Vodacom Could Partner With FinTechs To Pursue Mobile Payments in 2021 | Fintech (financial technology) on smart phone concept. Jirsak / Shutterstock.com |
| 26.01.2021 | MTN, Vodacom Could Partner With FinTechs To Pursue Mobile Payments in 2021 | Fintech (financial technology) on smart phone concept. Jirsak / Shutterstock.com For the past two years, we published AlphaCode, South Africa’s leading FinTech thinkers, predictions about the financial technology (FinTech) landscape. We bel... |
| 25.01.2021 | Fintech 2021 predictions [Opinion] | Each year, at AlphaCode, we use our vantage point of the fintech landscape to share what we expect this year. We had no idea last January that a whole new world awaited. One that would include global lockdowns, Zoombombing, covidiots, close... |
| 25.01.2021 | Fintech 2021 predictions [Opinion] | Each year, at AlphaCode, we use our vantage point of the fintech landscape to share what we expect this year. We had no idea last January that a whole new world awaited. One that would include global lockdowns, Zoombombing, covidiots, clos... |
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