Lemonade, Inc.

Lemonade, Inc., is an American insurance company. The company offers renters' insurance, homeowners' insurance, car insurance, pet insurance, and term life insurance in the United States, as well as contents and liability policies in Germany and the Netherlands and renters' insurance in France. The company is based in New York City and has approximately 1.9 million customers. Lemonade does not hire human employees to process claims for customers, instead using artificial intelligence and chatbots to process claims.

History
Lemonade was founded by Daniel Schreiber (former president of Powermat Technologies) and Shai Wininger (co-founder of Fiverr) in April 2015. Schreiber and Wininger were tech entrepreneurs with no insurance background.

In December 2015, the company secured $13 million in seed money from Sequoia Capital and Aleph.

In August 2016, the company raised $13 million in funding from XL Innovate (part of XL Group), followed by a $34 million Series B funding round in December 2016. The Series B round was led by General Catalyst with participation from Thrive Capital, Tusk Ventures, and GV (formerly Google Ventures).

In May 2016, Lemonade became one of the few insurance companies to receive B-Corporation certification.

In April 2017, the company announced additional investors: Allianz and Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures. In December 2017, Softbank invested an additional $120 million in the company in a Series C round, increasing the total money raised by the company to around $180 million.

In April 2019, Lemonade announced a further $300 million investment in a Series D financing led by SoftBank Group, with participation from Allianz, General Catalyst, GV, OurCrowd, and Thrive Capital, increasing the total money raised by the company to $480 million.

In April 2020, the company launched in the Netherlands.

On July 1, 2020, the company became a public company via an initial public offering.

In December 2020, it began offering insurance in France. It also won a trademark dispute with T-Mobile over the use of the color pink.

In November 2021, the company announced that it would fully acquire Metromile, Inc. The acquisition completed on July 29, 2022, following which Lemonade laid off 20% of Metromile's staff. Metromile has experienced a noticeable premium decline ever since Lemonade completed the acquisition in July 2022. The company ended the first six months of 2023 with $49 million in written premiums, a 15% decrease compared to the same period in 2022. In terms of dollars, the most significant decrease occurred in California, which accounts for over 50% of Metromile’s business. The company saw premiums decline in every state it operates in.