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Top 15 InsurTech Angel Investors in Asia

A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Insurtech startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Insurtech companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 InsurTech Angel Investors in Asia

Investor InsurTech Asia investments
George Godula 2
Yee How Choong 1
Naoki Aoyagi 1
Chris Hitchen 1
Meng Xiong Kuok 1
Wing Vasiksiri 1
Sofia Liang 1
Bo Shen 1
Antonio Mazza 1
Mohd Khairil Abdullah 1
James Gong 1
Darren Harrison 1
Owen Van Natta 1
Tony Fadell 1
Mark Pincus 1
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George Godula Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments. Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, China, Algeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Mila Cares — Air breathers, rejoice. Meet Mila, the first air purifier designed with real, air-breathing humans in mind.
  • Yassir — Yassir is a transportation service that utilizes a mobile app to enable users to book drivers and travel safely.The company's app locates local drivers that provide on-demand convenience and food delivery, allowing Algerians to travel anywhere they want and get food delivered on-demand.Founded in 2016 by Amel Delli, El Mahdi Yettou,Mustapha Baha, and Noureddine Tayebi and is based in Algiers, Alger, Algeria.
  • Truck It In — is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan to unlock 1 Billion dollars in resource potential
Yee How Choong Angel · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Yee How Choong, also known as Raymond, has been Group Chief Executive Officer, Group President and Director at GuocoLand Limited since September 1, 2015. Choong served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Hong Leong Financial Group Berhad (alternate name HLFG or Hong Leong Credit Bhd) from December 1, 2005 to September 1, 2015. Choongserved as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Citibank Savings Inc., Philippines since 2005. His working experience includes: Branch, Citibank, Malaysia from 1981 to 1984, Head of Credit & Business Development, Citibank, Malaysia from 1984 to 1986, Head of Sales & Marketing & Distribution, Citibank, Malaysia from 1987 to 1997, Head of Retail Banking & Credit Card, Citibank, Malaysia from 1998 to 2004. He served as Portfolio Manager of Hong Leong GEM Resources Strategic Fund, Hong Leong Global Value Fund, and Hong Leong Vietnam Fund. He served as a Portfolio Manager of Hong Leong Asset Management Bhd, Hong Leong GEM Resources Strategic Fund, Hong Leong Global Value Fund and Hong Leong Vietnam Fund. He serves as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of Hong Leong MSIG Takaful Berhad. He serves as a Director of Hong Leong Asset Management Bhd and Hong Leong Investment Bank Berhad. He serves as Non-Executive & Non-Independent Director at Hong Leong Assurance Berhad. He serves as a Director of Hong Leong Islamic Bank Berhad and Hong Leong Assurance Berhad. He served as a Non-Independent & Non-Executive Director of Hong Leong Bank Berhad since March 9, 2006 until September 21, 2015. He served as a Non Independent & Non Executive Director of GuocoLand (Malaysia) Berhad since September 1, 2015 until May 8, 2016. He served as Non-Independent Non-Executive Director at Hong Leong MSIG Takaful Berhad (formerly Hong Leong Tokio Marine Takaful Bhd). Choong served as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of HLG Capital Berhad (Hong Leong Capital Berhad) from December 1, 2005 to September 21, 2015. He served as an Executive Director of Hong Leong Financial Group Berhad from December 1, 2005 to October 2007 and served as its Non Independent Director until September 1, 2015. His qualification includes: In 1975 Bursary Examination of New Zealand from Bayfield High School, Dunedin, New Zealand , Bachelor of Science (Honours) - First Class Major in Biochemistry from University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand from 1976 to 1979. He received Master of Business Administration (MBA) from University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand from 1980 to 1981.
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Investment focus
  • Fitness, Medical, Wellness
  • Series A
  • Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • DocDoc — DocDoc is the world’s first patient intelligence empowerment company. Our vision is to empower patients to make data-driven healthcare decisions which are safe, transparent, and fair. We use technology in conjunction with medically trained professionals to optimise healthcare outcomes and cost, and enhance the patient’s end-to-end healthcarejourney. DocDoc combines AI-powered doctor discovery, telemedicine, and digital Third Party Administrator services onto a single platform. With this platform, DocDoc enables insurance companies to offer a differentiated product in a crowded market, employers to attract and retain world-class employees, and governments to improve accessibility and affordability of healthcare services for their citizens.DocDoc is an independent company with deep expertise in healthcare quality. We seek physicians, clinics, and hospitals with excellent outcomes who believe they are the best at what they do. We then spend hours with each doctor, investigating quality of care and documenting procedures and conditions where the physician excels. We review national records to confirm credentials and discover any legal action. Then, we enter information from multiple sources into a sophisticated system that finds a best match between a unique patient need and unique physician experience.Our model is that everyone wins. The patient finds a highly qualified doctor to treat their condition. The physician, who excels in specific treatments and procedures, has a company validate their expertise and send select patients to them so they can focus on clinical care. The insurance firms, knowing that happy policyholders maintain memberships and employers knowing that healthy employees are more productive, pay us a modest fee to assure their patients make informed medical decisions. The service is free of charge to providers to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest.
Naoki Aoyagi Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Naoki Aoyagi is a Senior Vice President at GREE, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of GREE International, Inc. He joined GREE, Inc. in March 2006 from Deutsche Bank, where he had specialized in tech and media sector IPOs and M&A advisory work. At GREE, Aoyagi oversaw the Company's partnership with KDDI and its IPO before leading thedevelopment of GREE’s global operations, a role he continues today. Aoyagi earned a bachelor's degree in policy management from Keio University in 2002.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Fashion, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
  • Parallel — Parallel Inc. develops a parallel SNS which can be used while playing games on smartphones.
  • Holmes — Holmesis a cloud contract system to consistently carry out the creation, conclusion and management of contracts in the cloud.
Chris Hitchen Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany
Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Holidu — Holidu is a search engine for vacation rentals. Search and compare more than 15 million vacation homes and save up to 55% on identical accommodations.
  • Classcamp — Classcamp is building the next generation of online learning. Our unique group-learning format is 10x more engaging than conventional online courses, by leveraging community and human-to-human interaction. We're building the tooling required to run a next-gen online teaching business, as well a consumer-facing marketplace for discoveringnext-gen programs.
  • Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
Meng Xiong Kuok Angel
Meng Xiong Kuok - Founder & Managing Partner @ K3 Ventures
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Transportation
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Singapore, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Cicil — Solusi pembiayaan untuk kegiatan rantai pasok bisnis Anda dari hulu ke hilir yang mudah dan cepat.
  • SimplyGood — SimplyGood supplies environmentally friendly cleaning and personal care products.
  • Lottery.com — Lottery.com is the internet's top source for official lottery results, numbers, games, jackpots, winners and news.
Wing Vasiksiri Angel · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Wing Vasiksiri
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Social, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Singapore, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • CHOYS — CHOYS is a holistic wellness subscription platform for organizations and employees that strives to offer every employee with access to benefits and impact that are tailored to their individual requirements, with the goal of making work more humanized and meaningful. CHOYS is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region and was founded in 2022.
  • WeGoWhere — Discover things to do with your favorite people. Sync plans with your friends so you never miss out. Know where your friends are doing today, this week or next and join their plans IRL.
  • Beep Technologies — Beep is creating a universal, modular platform bridging the physical and digital divide, powering smart, contextual & interoperable connectivity across physical touchpoints whilst ensuring true customer privacy by leveraging on decentralised technology.
Sofia Liang Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Sofia is the Managing Director and Head of Financial Institutions Group at ICBC International. Sofia has 17 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining ICBC International, she was Managing Director and Head of Greater China Equity Capital Market at Macquarie Capital. She has an bachelor's degree in International Economics fromPeking University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
  • Software, InsurTech, Blockchain
  • Seed
  • Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • JobsLab.io — JobsLab is a Hong Kong-based digital recruitment exchange. We help companies and talent connect through our unique end-to-end recruitment platform quickly and discretely. Our community has exclusive access to rewards and benefits that goes beyond traditional recruitment agencies. We use advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to matchprofessionals with exceptional employers. Find your dream job today. Visit: www.jobslab.io
Bo Shen Angel · Jingan, Shanghai, China
Bo Shen - Founding/Managing Partner @ Fenbushi Capital
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Switzerland, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Web3Port — Web3port BUILDS tools CONNECTING Web3.0 startups and contributors to ACCELERATE innovation.
  • Liquity — Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw 0% interest loans against Ether used as collateral.
  • Global Risk Exchange — Global Risk Exchange (or "GRE") is a blockchain based, decentralized and open global risk exchange market, with the purpose of helping individuals, companies and organizations to access and trade and manage their risks. GRE completely reconstructed traditional risk management tools(insurance and derivative contracts) in a decentralizedway, and will become the underlying operation system to support insurance and derivative transactions in the era of blockchain. GRE aims to build the infrastructure and trading platform for risk management industry in the blockchain driven world in the near future, by providing a fundamental protocol for the creation of risk events, pricing, trading, information collection and oracles to verdict specific risks. It will enable individuals and institutions around the globe to achieve risk and return equilibrium.
Antonio Mazza Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Antonio Mazza is the Co-Founder of WeNetwork.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Fitness, Internet
  • Pre-Seed
  • Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Aman — Aman provides modern technology for growing companies to set up and manage their employee benefits, simplifying complexity of benefit administation and delivering a world-class experience. Our platform enables companies to competitively recruit, engage and retain top talents.
  • Maxi — Maxi is an anonymous work-life community platform that improves employee mental wellness and productivity.
Mohd Khairil Abdullah Angel
Khairil was appointed Founder of Axiata Digital in 2014. Khairil holds a BA (Engineering) and MEng from the University of Cambridge, U.K. as well as an MBA from INSEAD, France. Prior to Axiata, Khairil was a Partner at Bain & Company, Inc., a leading global management consultancy. He was with Bain for more than 15 years and worked out ofvarious offices in the firm, including San Francisco, Munich, Sydney, Tokyo and Shanghai. He has built a strong track record of helping his clients in the Telco and other industries achieve major improvements to their strategic positions and operational performance. In 2008, Khairil returned to Southeast Asia to help Bain grow its Telco practice in the region based out of Singapore. Prior to joining Bain, Khairil was an operations consultant at Coopers & Lybrand, Management Consulting Services. He also had a stint running a tech start-up based in Southeast Asia.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, B2B, Retail
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Pakistan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • anycover — Unlock incremental revenue and a best-in-class customer experience with an integrated product protection program.
  • Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable
James Gong Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Ming Gong the Co-Founder of ChainB, is widely recognized on the internet under the pseudonym ""rage prince Gong."" Ming graduated with a degree in math and specializes in IT and financial securities analysis. He has many years of experience in IT and finance, and focused mainly on industry study and investment analysis whileserving at the Delong Group. In 2012, he began devoting his time to the development of digital currency and the blockchain industry. Additionally, he translated a large amount of relative materials and wrote the blockchain white paper. His publications includes ""Blockchain Society,"" ""Blockchain - A New Economic Blueprint,"" and ""Digital Currency"" etc. Ming participated in the development and investment of many blockchain and digital asset programs, and created the new media company ChainB, which has become influential in the blockchain industry.Currently Ming serves as Vice President of the Beijing Blockchain Technology Application Association. He is also a member of the Internet Finance Association - Blockchain Group, as well as Senior Researcher at China Blockchain Study Alliance. He is a member of the IT professional committee at the Chinese Securities Investment Fund Association, and member at the Policy Committee of the Quantchain Foundation, with several other positions.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, InsurTech, Blockchain
  • Seed
  • Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Global Risk Exchange — Global Risk Exchange (or "GRE") is a blockchain based, decentralized and open global risk exchange market, with the purpose of helping individuals, companies and organizations to access and trade and manage their risks. GRE completely reconstructed traditional risk management tools(insurance and derivative contracts) in a decentralizedway, and will become the underlying operation system to support insurance and derivative transactions in the era of blockchain. GRE aims to build the infrastructure and trading platform for risk management industry in the blockchain driven world in the near future, by providing a fundamental protocol for the creation of risk events, pricing, trading, information collection and oracles to verdict specific risks. It will enable individuals and institutions around the globe to achieve risk and return equilibrium.
Darren Harrison Angel
Darren Harrison
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, SaaS, Gaming
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Rush Gold — Digital Gold and Silver Money Platform - Buying gold and silver is now simple and accessible. Rush is the easiest way to buy, sell, exchange and offer.
  • InsureVite — InsureVite is a Singapore based, Enterprise B2B InsurTech startup on a mission to help insurers transform their customer experience through social messaging apps. Our digital assistant combined with robotic process automation can be embedded into any mobile apps or websites, enabling customers to connect and transact easily, quickly and seamlesslywith their insurers in a single interface (no re-direct or pushed out)
Owen Van Natta Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Owen Van Natta is currently Founder and Managing Partner of Prefix Capital, an early stage investment fund founded in 2019. Owen is also a Founder and Managing Partner at 415 Investments. Previously, Owen was the Executive Vice President of Business at Zynga. He was responsible for the company's revenue strategy, corporate development,international expansion, and brand. Owen was also a member of Zynga's Board of Directors.Before Zynga, Owen served as Chief Executive Officer of MySpace, where he was responsible for all aspects of the company's strategic vision and the execution of its global business initiatives. Owen joined the MySpace team after serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Project Playlist, a music sharing website allowing users to search for music, create custom playlists, and share the content with friends.Prior to Project Playlist, Van Natta was the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, where he focused on revenue operations, business development, and strategic partnerships.Earlier in his career, Owen was Vice President of Worldwide Business and Corporate Development at Amazon.com, where he managed global marketing programs and strategic partnerships. He was part of the founding team of A9.com, the Amazon.com search company, and was responsible for site operations and sponsored-link advertising.Owen holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Singapore, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Jiko — Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money, designed to create a fluid and rewarding banking experience for all. In September of 2020, Jiko became the first Fintech to acquire a national bank, in addition to being a licensed broker dealer. Prior to that accomplishment, Jiko spent 4 years developing afull-stack technology infrastructure that merges payment rails with real-time, 24/7 principal trading capabilities. This innovative combination is the backbone for Jiko’s transparent and rewarding model, which doesn’t use deposited funds for it's own investment purposes. Instead, customer’s funds are transparently invested in U.S. government-backed Treasury Bills (T-Bills), enabling cutting edge features such as virtual cards, tokenized bank account numbers, automated investments in T-Bills, and cashback on debit purchases. This model is made available to individuals through a mobile banking app, and to business partners through it's API platform. Jiko is a creative and hard-working team with cross-functional expertise in technology, trading, payment, and creative fields. The team is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with offices in New York City and Reykjavik, Iceland. Since its inception in 2016, Jiko has raised over $50M from trusted investors such as Upfront Ventures, Wafra Inc., Radicle Impact, NYCA Partners, and Anthem Ventures among others.
  • Bags — Grow your business with access to fair and flexible funding options designed to help you do your thing. Bags is the best place for business owners to get dollars for working capital, inventory, marketing, expansion, or anything else you need to grow.
  • Wheels Up — Wheels Up is a membership-based private aviation company that focuses on reducing the upfront cost to fly privately, providing flexibility, service, and safety. Its mobile app enables members to book flights, manage their accounts, and participate in ride-share opportunities. Its members also have given access to the Wheels Down program.
Tony Fadell Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Tony Fadell led the team that created the first 18 generations of the iPod and the first three generations of the iPhone. Before Apple, Tony built the Mobile Computing Group at Philips Electronics. Tony has authored more than 100 patents. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelors in Computer Engineering.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Prenuvo — Changing the medical paradigm from sick care to proactive healthcare
  • bolttech — bolttech is an international insurtech shaping the future of insurance. Our vision is to connect people with more ways to protect the things they value.
  • Nothing — Nothing is a London-based company removing the barriers between people and technology to create a seamless digital future.
Mark Pincus Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Loop — Control your freight spend with Loop. A tech-first audit and pay platform loved by Shippers, Carriers and 3PLs.
  • Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
  • Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.
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