2019
First contract signed and creation of Akur8 as a company
Akur8
Past and future
Their story
Founded in Paris in 2019 🇫🇷, and now based in the 9th arrondissement (a stone's throw from the Opéra!), our talented and diverse team has always been the cornerstone of Akur8. As we've grown, we've expanded our footprint around the world, establishing offices in the UK 🇬🇧, USA 🇺🇸, Italy 🇮🇹, Germany 🇩🇪 and Japan 🇯🇵.
Comprising experts in Engineering, Product, Design, Cybersecurity, Business, Marketing and more, our passion and expertise unite us.
We take pride in our remarkable growth, having doubled our customer base and expanded our team in the last two years. Our approach is focused on long-term success as we use the outcomes of our decisions to guide our ambitions, define investment levels, and foster boldness and creativity in our day-to-day.
We are dedicated to fostering excellence and maintain high hiring standards to identify the most talented individuals who will contribute to our continuous development ! 🚀
2021
25M€ Series B fundings, 40+ clients
2023
25M€ Series B extension, 100+ clients
900+ active users
Accross 5 continents
150+ employees
35 different nationalities and 25 languages spoken
7 offices worlwide
Paris (HQ), London, New-York, Milan, Tokyo, Cologne, Atlanta
Their vision
At Akur8, we revolutionize insurance pricing with Transparent AI. 🚀
Why transform insurance pricing ?
For anyone who has been around the insurance space for some time, innovation has been rather scarcer than other sectors so far. This is especially true for core processes, notably pricing that has largely remained a ‘dark niche’, mastered by few technical experts, mostly using manual legacy tools. The potential for transformation and for unlocking added value through pricing sophistication is tremendous, and largely untapped.
Company values
At the heart of our organization lies the DNA of Akur8 : our four fundamental values.
Those values serve as a pillar for shaping our culture, guiding our daily actions, inspiring us and driving our successes.
They are also our north star ⭐️ – they guide us when feeling lost or uncertain.
We challenge the unbearable status quo 🤜
We strive for innovation and for the transformation of the insurance industry. But we command change only when it is needed and has genuine virtuous impact.
We disrupt the known, organize the unknown 💪
We work without borders. We have the ability to challenge ourselves to adapt to unknown scenarios, in all kinds of contexts. We thrive in structuring what is hardly structurable.
We are AI driven, but refreshingly human 🤝
Akur8 is an artificially-intelligent solution but humanity always comes first, within our team, with our clients and with our solution. Our AI is Transparent and human-controlled.
We build things that last 🚀
We build long-standing, robust and reliable solutions for new and century-old insurance companies. We are here to stay.
Commitments and CSR
We take pride to have a very open employment policy and we recruit a wide variety of profiles, the only requirement being that you're passionate and qualified ! 🚀
We actively support the Women In Tech movement and are proud to develop and maintain a gender parity environment, with a score of 96/100 on Professionnal Equality Index in 2023. 💜
An employee resource group was launched by Akur8 to foster a workplace culture that champions and promote diversity, equity and inclusion. 🧑🦽🏳️⚧️
We provide all employees in our Paris office with a credit to support sustainable mobility. 🌱
Teamstarter
We decided to work with Teamstarter to create a culture of initiative, by enabling employees to become active players in the life of Akur8. Via Teamstarter, Akurians are free to propose any internal project (team-building, cohesion, CSR...) and implement it once the rest of the team has collectively supported the project via the platform.
13000 euros raised for OXFAM 100km Trailwalker
For the last 3 years, 26 Akurians have participated to the challenge !