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| name = Baobab Insurance
| legal_name = Baobab Insurance GmbH
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| type = Private — insurtech MGA
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| license_type = Insurance agent under § 34d (1) GewO
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| founded = {{Start date and age|2021}}
| headquarter = Berlin, Germany
| domicile = Germany
| insurance_jurisdictions = Germany<br/>Austria<br/>Benelux<br/>EEA cross-border
| regulator = IHK Berlin
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| shareholders = Viola FinTech<br/>eCAPITAL Entrepreneurial Partners<br/>Augmentum Fintech<br/>Project A Ventures<br/>La Famiglia<br/>Discovery Ventures
| key_people = Vincenz Klemm, Co-Founder and CEO<br/>Anton Foth, Co-Founder and CTO<br/>John Braun, Head of Broker Sales<br/>Manuela Solescu, Head of Digital Product<br/>Andrew Saula, Head of Cyber Security<br/>Benedikt Klingenheben, Head of Cyber Underwriting<br/>Simon Bramsche, Head of Strategy and Finance
| num_employees = ~30 (June 2025)
| customer_segments = SME<br/>Mid-market<br/>Upper mid-market / industrial
| lines_of_business = Cyber insurance<br/>E-crime / fidelity<br/>IT liability
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| products = CyberSafe (cyber insurance)<br/>E-crime insurance (with Liberty Specialty Markets)<br/>IT pecuniary loss liability
| technology_platform = AI-native underwriting<br/>Continuous monitoring and scanning<br/>Broker portal<br/>Customer portal
| capacity_providers = Zurich Insurance Europe AG<br/>ERGO<br/>Liberty Specialty Markets<br/>Lloyd's syndicates (Tokio Marine Kiln, Talbot Underwriting, Argenta Syndicate Management)<br/>SCOR Syndicate at Lloyd's
| distribution = Broker-led
| geographic_markets = Germany<br/>Austria<br/>Benelux
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| competitors = Coalition<br/>At-Bay<br/>Stoïk<br/>Eye Security
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| total_funding = €20.1M
| last_round = Series A, €12M, June 2025
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| lead_investors = Viola FinTech<br/>eCAPITAL Entrepreneurial Partners
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== Corporate identity and regulatory footprint ==
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== Business model
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== Leadership
👤 '''Founders.''' Vincenz Klemm (Co-Founder, CEO / Managing Director) previously co-founded Gabi in San Francisco
👥 '''Senior leadership.''' The
🧭 '''Advisory board.''' The company discloses an advisory board comprising Thies Sander (Founding Partner at Project A Ventures), Martyn Holman (Partner at Augmentum Fintech), and Christof Mascher (former board member of Allianz SE).<ref name="aboutus"/><ref name="ecapital"/> Public narrative, partner announcements, and capital-raise communications are heavily centered on the CEO as primary spokesperson and strategic driver, indicating key-person concentration risk.<ref name="ecapital"/>
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== Funding
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| Pre-seed || January 2022
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| Series A || June 2025
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💶 '''Total capital raised.''' Baobab has raised a total of €20.1M across pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds.<ref name="techeu">{{cite web |title=Baobab Insurance raises EUR12 million to protect businesses from AI attacks |url=https://tech.eu/2025/06/04/baobab-insurance-raises-eur12-million-to-protect-businesses-from-ai-attacks/ |publisher=Tech.eu |date=4 June 2025 |access-date=2026-03-09}}</ref> The €12M Series A, disclosed in June 2025, was led by Viola FinTech and eCAPITAL Entrepreneurial Partners, with participation from existing investors and a named advisory board member; proceeds were positioned for building out an active risk mitigation platform, team growth, and expansion to additional EU markets within 12 months.<ref name="ecapital"/>
📄 '''Seed round nuance.''' Augmentum Fintech's primary-source market announcement states it led a new investment round with a €3M investment, without explicitly disclosing the total round size.<ref name="augmentumrns">{{cite web |title=Portfolio update and new investment in insurtech |url=https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/prn/augmentum-fintech--augm/portfolio-update-and-new-investment-in-insurtech/7232775 |publisher=Investegate (Augmentum Fintech) |date=30 January 2023 |access-date=2026-03-09}}</ref> A Baobab-hosted interview post references a €5M financing round led by Augmentum, but that post contains internal time inconsistencies, making the €5M figure unreliable without independent corroboration.<ref name="vincenzblog"/>
📈 '''Operating scale signals.''' Around the Series A announcement, Baobab was reported as approximately 30 employees and planning multi-country EU expansion and product range expansion.<ref name="techeu"/>
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== Product suite and underwriting appetite ==
🎯 '''Customer segments.''' Baobab markets cyber insurance primarily as a broker-sold product for companies with turnover up to €200M
🛡️ '''First-party coverages.''' Baobab publicly describes first-party cyber coverages including business interruption and revenue losses (including cloud failure), data and system recovery, hardware damage from cyber attack, crisis communication and PR support, cyber fraud coverage (e.g., fake president fraud), security improvements, and BYOD-related incidents.<ref name="cyberins"/>
⚖️ '''Third-party coverages.''' Disclosed third-party coverages encompass network security liability (defense and indemnification for third-party damage), privacy liability and legal data protection advice, media liability, PCI-DSS and credit card industry penalties, intellectual property rights violations, and contractual penalties relating to unlawful disclosure, delayed services, and breach of notification obligations.<ref name="cyberins"/>
🆘 '''Breach response services.''' Embedded breach response services include forensic investigation, notification support, crisis management, crisis communication and PR support, and 24/7 emergency hotline access.<ref name="cyberins"/>
📋 '''E-crime product.''' Baobab and Liberty Specialty Markets jointly launched an e-crime (fidelity) product focused on CEO fraud and deepfakes, featuring five risk questions and limits up to €5M, positioned for mid-sized businesses and available as a standalone product with planned integration into cyber application flows.<ref name="asscompact">{{cite web |title=Baobab und LSM bringen E-Crime-Versicherung auf den Markt |url=https://www.asscompact.de/nachrichten/baobab-und-lsm-bringen-e-crime-versicherung-auf-den-markt |publisher=AssCompact |date=March 2025 |access-date=2026-03-09}}</ref>
💻 '''IT liability insurance.''' Baobab markets an IT pecuniary loss liability cover with sums insured up to €15M in Germany and Austria, featuring a three-question application for companies up to €200M turnover, coverage modules spanning liability and own damage with multiple named extensions (including delay damage and IP infringement), and insured activities such as software development, IT consulting, hosting, data centers, and related services.<ref name="itliability">{{cite web |title=IT Liability Insurance |url=https://www.baobab.io/de-en/it-liability-insurance |publisher=Baobab Insurance |access-date=2026-03-09}}</ref>
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== Distribution and geographic expansion ==
🌐 '''Broker-led distribution.''' Broker distribution is structurally central to Baobab's model, featuring a broker portal, broker-facing risk reports, cyber expert support for broker meetings, and accelerated onboarding via outside-in scanning and a DIN SPEC 27076 cyber risk check option. The portal provides digital application and quotation flows (including email-based options), customer scanning views for brokers, a resource center, and customer security status visibility.<ref name="broker"/>
🇩🇪 '''Core markets.''' Germany and Austria are repeatedly stated as active markets in investor and partner communications.<ref name="scor"/> Baobab launched in Germany in September 2022 and subsequently expanded to Austria.<ref name="vwheute">{{cite web |title=Insurtech Baobab expandiert nach Österreich |url=https://versicherungswirtschaft-heute.de/unternehmen-und-management/2023-03-30/insurtech-baobab-expandiert-nach-oesterreich/ |publisher=Versicherungswirtschaft Heute |date=30 March 2023 |access-date=2026-03-09}}</ref>
🇳🇱 '''Benelux entry.''' A reinsurer announcement states Baobab became active in the Benelux as of November 2025.<ref name="scor"/> The company is registered as a German insurance agent/MGA and separately discloses a Netherlands branch while appearing in EEA cross-border intermediary listings, consistent with EU insurance distribution rules for intermediaries.<ref name="impressum"/>
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🏦 '''Named risk carriers.''' Baobab identifies Zurich Insurance Europe AG as the risk carrier for its cyber offering on its website.<ref name="baobabhome"/> Investor and insurer communications attribute additional carrier relationships over time, including ERGO and Liberty Specialty Markets, along with multiple named Lloyd's syndicate participants in mid-market offerings: Tokio Marine Kiln, Talbot Underwriting, and Argenta Syndicate Management.<ref name="ecapital"/><ref name="handelszeitung"/>
🤝 '''SCOR partnership.''' A reinsurer announcement confirms a partnership facilitated by the SCOR Syndicate at Lloyd's, extending Baobab's underwriting capacity for CyberSafe to companies with annual revenue up to €1B.<ref name="scor"/> This partnership is positioned as a milestone enabling entry into upper industrial client segments.
🔐 '''Technology and services partners.''' Baobab's cyber security page references a partner network including 1Password, Darktrace, and Device42, alongside partner discounts for policyholders.<ref name="cybersecurity"/> Bundled security measures include weekly scanning, awareness training components, templates, and a DIN SPEC 27076 cyber risk check valued at €2,000.<ref name="cybersecurity"/> Managed Detection and Response is presented as an additional service rather than universally bundled.<ref name="cybersecurity"/>
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== Competitive positioning ==
📐 '''Scale signals.''' Headcount stood at approximately 30 employees around the Series A announcement period.<ref name="techeu"/> Quantitative GWP, policy count, and loss ratio figures are not publicly disclosed; the most specific performance statement is qualitative, with investor communications describing loss ratios significantly below market average.<ref name="augmentum">{{cite web |title=Augmentum Fintech plc Annual Results 31 March 2025 |url=https://augmentum.vc/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Augmentum-Fintech-plc-Annual-Results-31-March-2025.pdf |publisher=Augmentum Fintech |date=July 2025 |access-date=2026-03-09}}</ref>
🧬 '''Differentiation.''' Baobab's competitive moat rests on several pillars: a data and telemetry advantage through weekly scanning, continuous monitoring, and an AI/ML risk model R&D program; product-plus-services integration bundling prevention tools such as phishing simulation, awareness training, and vulnerability notification; broker portal tooling and risk visualization enabling distribution partnerships; and a broadening capacity access across multiple carriers and Lloyd's syndicates, reducing single-carrier dependency.<ref name="cybersecurity"/><ref name="broker"/><ref name="baobabhome"/>
🔍 '''Peer landscape.''' Within the cyber MGA ecosystem, Baobab most closely resembles an integrated European cyber MGA combining broker-led distribution and embedded cyber services. Comparable models include Coalition and At-Bay as US full-stack cyber platform comparators and Stoïk and Eye Security as European challengers blending cyber services and insurance placement.<ref name="techeu"/><ref name="cyberins"/> Baobab's distinct signal is its progression to higher revenue bands via Lloyd's-related authority and the SCOR partnership, representing a deliberate upmarket strategy.<ref name="scor"/>
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== Risk factors ==
⚠️ '''Capacity dependency.''' While Baobab cites multiple carrier relationships over time, the share of premium placed on each paper and the stability of each binder are undisclosed, leaving residual dependency risk if book economics concentrate on one carrier program.<ref name="ecapital"/>
🌊 '''Systemic cyber aggregation.''' The firm's move into larger revenue bands (up to €1B eligibility) may increase tail risk and aggregation exposure if portfolio controls, sublimits, and event management are not tightly governed.<ref name="scor"/>
📜 '''Regulatory and conduct risk.''' As a registered insurance agent/MGA with claims-handling responsibilities, operational execution and complaint handling are material, especially in cross-border contexts.<ref name="impressum"/>
🚀 '''Funding and execution.''' Post-Series A expansion plans depend on the effective scaling of underwriting, claims, security services, and cross-border regulatory operations.<ref name="ecapital"/>
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== Strategy and outlook ==
🗺️ '''Near-term priorities.''' Public announcements tie recent funding to expansion into additional EU markets, strengthening positions in Germany and Austria, and broadening the product range for commercial customers.<ref name="ecapital"/>
🏗️ '''Upmarket trajectory.''' The SCOR partnership is positioned as a milestone enabling entry into upper industrial client segments, implying a deliberate upmarket strategy likely requiring heavier underwriting governance, claims sophistication, and potentially more bespoke placements.<ref name="scor"/> Disclosed revenue thresholds indicate a product and authority trajectory progressing from SME-focused underwriting toward upper mid-market and industrial clients, with eligibility bands expanding from €200M to €500M and ultimately to €1B.<ref name="scor"/><ref name="handelszeitung"/><ref name="cyberins"/>
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== Timeline ==
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|+ 📅 Baobab Insurance key corporate events and milestones, 2021–2026
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| 2021 || Company founded by Vincenz Klemm and Anton Foth
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| September 2022
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| March 2023
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| August 2024 || IT liability insurance launch
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| October 2024 || Lloyd's coverholder appointment for mid-market cyber; cooperation with Lloyd's syndicates and ERGO
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| 14 January 2025 || Cross-border rights effective per Estonian regulator listing
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| March 2025 || E-crime product launch with Liberty Specialty Markets
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| 4 June 2025 || €12M Series A; total raised €20.1M; EU expansion plans announced
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| November 2025 || Benelux market entry
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| 23 December 2025 || AFM register lists Baobab on Lloyd's Insurance Company S.A. page
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| 30 January 2026 || SCOR partnership extends CyberSafe underwriting capacity to companies up to €1B revenue
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<ref name="aboutus"/><ref name="eustartups">{{cite web |title=Berlin-based Baobab secures €3.5 million to protect SMEs against cyberattack threat |url=https://www.eu-startups.com/2022/01/berlin-based-baobab-secures-e3-5-million-to-protect-smes-against-cyberattack-threat/ |publisher=EU-Startups |date=January 2022 |access-date=2026-03-09}}</ref><ref name="vwheute"/><ref name="augmentumrns"/><ref name="augmentum"/><ref name="handelszeitung"/><ref name="fiee"/><ref name="asscompact"/><ref name="techeu"/><ref name="scor"/><ref name="afm"/>
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== See also ==
* [[Cyber insurtech MGAs and underwriting agencies]]
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