Insurtech Yurtle, based mostly in London, has raised £1.37m in seed funding to develop its group and fight caregiver burnout because the world’s first digital care ally.
Yurtle needs a world the place everybody has the selection to stay independently as they’re and can accomplish that through casual social care networks.
Its B2B answer prevents caregiver burnout by serving to them construct a resilient care group round them, in addition to a monetary security internet when well being breaks down.
Paid for by employers, the answer is being offered to companies dedicated to the wellbeing of their staff.
Yurtle’s app helps staff replicate on the care load they carry – usually ignored by caregivers desperate to prioritise the wants of a kid/mum or dad/grandparent/partner, obtain personalised recommendation on changing into more practical caregivers, and exhibits them learn how to mobilise their current community to share caring obligations.
Two specialist traders had been co-leads for this spherical; Insurtech Gateway – with insurance coverage and regulatory experience and Mustard Seed Maze – with its affect funding experience and community.
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“We imagine there isn’t a single systemic problem extra urgent or fascinating to unravel for than our ageing inhabitants. We’re thrilled to have secured funding that enables us to proceed constructing the instruments households want to fulfill their obligations of look after family members with out sacrificing their well being. With the formal announcement of Jose Ribeiro as Chairman of Yurtle, that is actually a mission to provide others what we want our household had entry to in its time of want,” mentioned Antonio Ribeiro, founder.
“Caregiving is the one largest driver of underrepresentation of girls within the senior management, it’s behind the gender pension and pay gaps, and the decrease participation of girls in paid work. Yurtle’s product takes a direct strategy to sort out this inequality, providing caregivers the neighborhood assist and monetary safety essential to take care of their very own well being and profession, whereas offering high-quality care to family members. We’re proud to assist Yurtle as they broaden their product throughout the UK and past,” acknowledged Richard Chattock, CEO at Insurtech Gateway
“For MSM, tackling the problem of a rising aged inhabitants has at all times been an space of curiosity, contemplating the dimensions of the issue and the affect potential. Nonetheless, it was solely clear to us after assembly Yurtle {that a} scalable enterprise mannequin may very well be discovered within the house. The combo of an answer that solves the monetary (insurance coverage) and non-financial (platform) points linked to caregiving, along with a enterprise mannequin that splits the accountability between staff and employers, makes this doable. António and the group he constructed round Yurtle couldn’t be a greater match to sort out this drawback, with a mix of enterprise, insurance coverage, behavioral science and on-the floor expertise working with caregivers,” added Sofia Queiroz, funding principal at MSM.
