SafetyWing (YC W18) — Health insurance for remote teams
At SafetyWing, we’re building a global social safety net for remote workers—simple health, insurance, and retirement products designed to replace national welfare systems.
SafetyWing is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2018 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Health insurance for remote teams. The founders listed are Sondre Rasch (Founder/CEO), Sarah Sandnes (Founder/CTO), Hans Nyvold Kjellby (Founder/COO) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 9, 2017).
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At SafetyWing, we’re building a global social safety net for remote workers—simple health, insurance, and retirement products designed to replace national welfare systems.
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Health and insurance products for remote companies and remote workers worldwide, as a replacement for national welfare systems.
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Sondre Rasch
Founder/CEO
Co-founder and CEO of SafetyWing (YC W18) and SuperSide (YC W16). Formerly economics interested and policy advisor for the government of Norway. Generally into rationality, effective altruism, Karl Poppers theory of knowledge and consequentialist libertarianism.
Sarah Sandnes
Founder/CTO
Norwegian based in NYC, with comp sci, math and startup background. Consider myself a pretty optimistic rationalist. I'm into reading, cooking, nutrition, health, exercise, nootropics, longevity, and creating a world with more equal opportunities - made a lot more possible thanks to the Internet and remote work. I'm also a singer-songwriter.
Hans Nyvold Kjellby
Founder/COO
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