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SimplyInsured (YC W13) — We sell health insurance to small businesses 100% online

SimplyInsured was founded with one mission: to eliminate fear from health insurance. By changing the way small business owners purchase health insurance with our 100% online platform, we’re transforming a $20 billion dollar industry and delighting thousands of customers.

SimplyInsured is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2013 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: We sell health insurance to small businesses 100% online. The founder listed is Vivek Shah (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, December 3, 2012).

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SimplyInsured

New accelerator entry · 2012-12-03 · the record

Winter 2013
batch
35
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2013
Announced2012-12-03
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size35
IndustryHealthcare
Sub-industryHealthcare -> Healthcare Services
SectorsHealth Insurance
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringYes
Sitehttp://simplyinsured.com

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SimplyInsured was founded with one mission: to eliminate fear from health insurance. By changing the way small business owners purchase health insurance with our 100% online platform, we’re transforming a $20 billion dollar industry and delighting thousands of customers. Our unique values-based culture (and extremely talented team) is our core competitive advantage, and each person on our team makes a direct, immediate impact on our business. We value transparency, feedback, bias to action, growth, and an obligation to dissent. Every opinion is respected, we hold each other to extremely high standards, we’re driven by the diversity in our backgrounds, and unified by 100% alignment on our mission. What’s best for the customer is the heart of everything we do, and our customer stories prove it: by changing health insurance we’re literally saving lives. Based in San Francisco, SimplyInsured was founded in 2012 and is back by Bessemer Venture Partners, Polaris Ventures, and Y-Combinator. If you’re up for the challenge of improving health insurance for millions of Americans, we’re just getting started, and we’re growing!

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