Fintech and Insurtech Collaboration Launched to Provide Immediate Relief to Climate Vulnerable Communities and Businesses Following Extreme Weather Events
Yokahu, Vitesse and FloodFlash to work together to cut insurance pay-out times from months to minutes, helping prevent small business failure following extreme weather events London, 30th November 2022: Climate risk insurance platform Yokahu, alongside flood...
Lloyd’s Lab Selects Yokahu Parametric Loan Default Protection Product for Cohort 9
Pioneering Yokahu product is among 9 successful insurtechs and innovators selected for leading global insurtech accelerator, Lloyd’s Lab London, 13th September, 2022: Yokahu, the insurtech using parametric underwriting and data visualisation to protect...
Yokahu accepted to first UK Amazon Web Services Fintech Accelerator
Expansive and ambitious insurtech Yokahu selected among 50 UK startups for six-week AWS Fintech Accelerator programme London, 5th September, 2022: Yokahu, the pioneering insurtech using parametric underwriting and data visualisation to protect...
COP27: Actions speak louder than words
Tim McCosh, CEO of Yokahu, calls on governments to issue a legal mandate to the re/insurance sector to produce the innovation required for faster, more impactful action on the ground for improving resilience to climate change where it is most needed All the policy...
Yokahu Launches With Four Caribbean Brokers
First partners for parametric insurtech offering its unique Hurricane Insurance Emergency Expenses product London, 23rd May 2022: Yokahu, an insurtech using parametric underwriting and data visualisation to provide Hurricane/Tropical Cyclone protection, announces...
Managing Caribbean risk
Tim McCosh, Founder and CEO, Yokahu talks to Emerging Risks about providing parametric cover for the Caribbean, and how climate change is affecting the risk profile.Can you tell us a little about Yokahu - when it was it founded and what does it do? We were founded in...
Yokahu aiming to build local partnerships to strengthen Caribbean resilience
Shared with the kind permission of The Insurer Yokahu founder and CEO Tim McCosh caught up with ESG Insurer to discuss next steps in the parametric start-up’s efforts to provide cover for hurricane-exposed communities in the Caribbean. One of the major challenges in...
Hurricane Protection: Time for Employers to take Responsibility
Tim McCosh, CEO of Yokahu, considers how companies that are frequently affected by hurricanes could consider hurricane protection as a form of benefit for their employees, not simply a cost for their business Hurricanes are one of the most significant external events...
Climate Change and Hurricanes: Where does Yokahu Stand?
Tim McCosh, Co-Founder and CEO of Yokahu reflects on another above-average hurricane season in 2021, and looks ahead to how climate change is increasing the possibility of hurricane risk facing everyday people. One of the key actions from the much talked about COP26...
McKenzie Intelligence Services partners with parametric hurricane insurance MGA Yokahu
London, 28th October, 2021: Leading geospatial imagery and re/insurance intelligence company, McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with digital first Managing General Agent (MGA) McCosh Holdings Ltd, trading as Yokahu....