Startup Spott announces arrival with digital insurance platform for e-commerce sellers

The Israeli company’s insurance enables e-commerce firms to defend their suppliers from promises and comply with up-to-date insurance prerequisites from top marketplaces, most notably Amazon

Meir Orbach15:0113.01.22

Israeli startup Spott released on Thursday its digital coverage system built for e-commerce sellers. The start comes on the back of past year’s $8.3m Seed funding round led by Staff8 and Viola Ventures. Spott is the to start with portfolio firm to launch from Team8’s Fintech foundry, headed by Rakefet Russak-Aminoach and Yuval Tal. &#13
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Spott was founded by experienced business people and veterans of the IDF’s 8200 unit Roma Bronstein (CTO), Amit Batzir (Main Item and Hazard Officer) and Male Salame (CEO). Prior to founding Spott, Bronstein was a co-founder of Jeeng (acquired by PowerInbox), Batzir was Head of Info Intelligence at PayPal, and Salame was VP merchandise for insurtech startup Planck. The co-founders joined forces with veteran fintech leader Yuval Tal, the founder of Payoneer and Borderfree, to create Spott. Tal at this time serves as Spott’s Chairman and is Handling Lover at Group8. &#13
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Spott co-founders. Photograph: Doron Letzter

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Spott, whose insurance policy presenting enables e-commerce companies to protect their retailers against promises and comply with up-to-date insurance coverage needs from main marketplaces, most notably Amazon, employs all-around 20 individuals in its places of work in Tel Aviv and New York. &#13
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The e-commerce legal responsibility insurance current market, which Spott aims to tackle, is valued at $5 billion and is forecast to improve fast, spurred by the most current prerequisites from leading e-commerce marketplaces for sellers to keep liability insurance policy. However, even with the growing need for protection, traditional insurers have troubles correctly evaluating hazard and offering desirable presents to on line sellers. &#13
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Spott delivers aggressive insurance coverage rates to e-commerce businesses and allows them to quickly buy policies that fulfill the specifications of marketplaces at a selling price that reflects the business’ threat stage. Spott is at present serving hundreds of e-commerce sellers throughout the world and has partnered with top rated-tier digital brokers and primary business carriers in Israel and the U.S. &#13
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“We’re witnessing a widening chasm emerge concerning the promptly developing e-commerce industry and the proven fiscal companies sector that has been working according to the very same ideas for decades,” mentioned Dude Salame, co-founder and CEO of Spott. &#13
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“Spott has entered the market at the ideal time,” mentioned Yuval Tal, Chairman of Spott and Taking care of Associate at Workforce8. “Their engineering will considerably strengthen underwriting processes, enabling insurers to quantify hazard not only on a company amount, but also on a product amount, and assist sellers easily entry insurance policy protection customized to their demands.” &#13
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