Austin-based Insurance Zebra, as the name implies, isn’t absolutely arrest the sexiest industry, but it’s absolutely one that’s aggravating to advice the everyday, boilerplate consumer. The startup’s ambition is to be the Kayak for auto insurance, so to speak, as it aggregates quotes to acquiesce consumers to acquisition their best options. But the aggregation is accomplishing article abnormally than others in this amplitude – it’s absolution consumers boutique anonymously, while additionally seeing how their answers to the Allowance Zebra’s Q&A change their amount quotes in real-time.
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Insurance Zebra architect and CEO Adam Lyons ahead formed in the car allowance industry on both the underwriting and allowance ancillary of the business, which is how he came up with the abstraction for this service. He sees the abeyant for the car allowance industry to go online, the way the biking industry already has, as sites like Orbitz or Kayak helped move consumers abroad from application alone biking agents.
The aggregation aloft a $1.5 actor berry annular beforehand this year, led by Austin’s Silverton Partners, with accord from Mark Cuban, Floodgate, and Birchmere Labs.
Today, Allowance Zebra is ablution in California and Texas, the two states with the better cardinal of drivers. California, in particular, is one of the added difficult states to accouterment accustomed the complexities of its regulations. That’s addition acumen Allowance Zebra chose them for a barrage pad, alfresco of the accessible — it’s a tech hotspot area a cardinal of aboriginal adopters would be acceptable to accord online allowance arcade a shot.
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The armpit today offers up quotes from 33 altered insurers, apery about 90 percent of the market. With two pieces of advice — a car and a ZIP cipher — drivers will see quotes activate to breeze in. As you advance to acknowledgment added questions, the accurateness of the quotes will improve.
Using the armpit now, you’ll see several big-name companies like Accompaniment Farm, Geico, Allstate and added represented, as able-bodied as a lot of specialized insurers like those for high-risk drivers, for example. According to COO Joshua Dziabiak, the aggregation has relationships with some, but not all, of the companies whose quotes it provides, but it does accept added big-name insurers on lath who are still in the action of actuality integrated.
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For those situations area Allowance Zebra doesn’t accept a absolute accord with an insurer, he explains that they’re application accessible abstracts to actuate the amount quotes. “What we’re accomplishing is leveraging accessible amount filings. Every carrier, by law, is appropriate to abide these acutely continued amount manuals to anniversary state, which are fabricated accessible through the state’s Dept. of Allowance website,” says Dziabiak. “What we’ve done is congenital a technology that about-face engineers those amount manuals and spits out ante quotes.”
While there are a cardinal of accoutrement to analyze allowance quotes today (including those from insurers themselves, like Progressive touts), Allowance Zebra’s advantage is not aloof in the real-time afterlight of quotes as you move through the Q&A sections, but additionally that it allows you to boutique anonymously.
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“There are advance aggregators out there area you put in your advice and all of a abrupt your buzz starts alarming up from all sorts of agents,” explains Dziabiak. But Allowance Zebra lets you get the quotes after acceptable a advance to be resold. Instead, the armpit itself is appointed with about 14 carriers appropriate now, acceptation it’s set up like a accepted allowance agent. Like any mom-and-pop shops, it has the aforementioned licensees and agency structure. It doesn’t allegation a customer annihilation extra, but takes a agency on the auction back you buy.
Meanwhile, for those allowance companies area Allowance Zebra doesn’t accept a absolute relationship, the account lets the disciplinarian alarm the aggregation via a Twilio-provided line. That way, the aggregation can clue the cardinal of referrals and alarm durations at least, which could advice it abutting deals added bottomward the road.
During a clandestine beta period, Allowance Zebra showed testers 280,000 quotes and activate that it could accomplish abutting to 95 percent accuracy, bold consumers didn’t lie or aback access incorrect information.
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Now that the account is accessible to the public, the plan is to aggrandize civic soon. In the abutting six to eight weeks, Allowance Zebra will activate to accessible up to the blow of the U.S., admitting it will do so agilely as there will be added bugs to assignment out in anniversary state, Dziabiak notes.
Interested users in California or Texas (or those who appetite to pretend) can try Allowance Zebra here.
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