Blue Marble Microinsurance

Blue Marble is a startup with a mission to extend socially impactful, commercially viable insurance protection to the underserved around the world.

Blue Marble Microinsurance

Sharing the vision of collaboration to develop insurance to benefit underserved communities worldwide.

Insurance has a central role to improve the resilience of communities around the world. Bridging the protection gap is a big task that calls for an unique business model to deliver results.

Our Vision

To economically empower the underserved

To understand the underserved’s inhibitors and their complex interactions
To develop innovative, customer centric solutions by bundling services that comprehensively address these inhibitors
To master partnerships and networks to deliver these solutions
To make solutions affordable through technological innovations to mitigate frictional costs

Our Vision

To economically empower the underserved

To understand the underserved’s inhibitors and their complex interactions
To develop innovative, customer centric solutions by bundling services that comprehensively address these inhibitors
To master partnerships and networks to deliver these solutions
To make solutions affordable through technological innovations to mitigate frictional costs

Mission

To provide socially impactful, commercially viable insurance protection to the underserved.

Values

Collaboration

Innovation

Integrity

Respect

Transparency

Our Mission

To provide socially
impactful, commercially
viable insurance protection
to the underserved.

Our Values

Collaboration
Innovation
Integrity
Respect
Transparency

Consortium Members

Blue Marble incubates and implements microinsurance solutions to support the economic advancement of communities. To do so, Blue Marble’s core management team is complemented by experts seconded from the consortium members. Together with customers and collaborative partnerships, Blue Marble addresses a specific social issue, and develops the tools, technology and innovative delivery mechanisms to solve that issue.

Harnessing Talent

Blue Marble has a dedicated management team that is complemented by experts seconded from the consortium companies. These experts provide guidance, talent and risk capacity.

Collaborative Partners

Blue Marble Supports

Farmers

Microentrepreneurs

Underserved Communities

Venture Process

Idea Generation

Crowdsourcing ideas from 250,000+ owner company employees
Acceleration

Developing ideas into full-fledged business plans
Pilot

Entering the market, pivoting based on lessons learned, and validating the concept
Scale

Expanding market reach of validated concept

Ventures

Africa

In 2016, Blue Marble launched a venture in Zimbabwe that offers customized microinsurance solutions to protect smallholder farmers against the effects of climate change (drought and excess rainfall). It employs an index product that can adapt to different soil types, crops, seed varieties and farming practices. The offering is expanding to Kenya and Mozambique.

Latin America

In 2018, Blue Marble launched Café Seguro with Nestle/Nespresso to serve Colombian smallholder coffee farmers. Café Seguro is a parametric weather protection program to reduce farmer vulnerability at crucial stages of coffee bean development.

This video shares farmers testimonials and what Café Seguro means to them.

Featured Ventures

Climate Finance Development Accelerator

Blue Marble, with support from a grant from CFDA and USAID's Adaptation Finance Window, is initiating a program to highlight public-private partnerships in climate adaptation. The program aims to aid Kenyan coffee farmers, connecting them to global food networks, with the goal of creating a replicable model for other regions and supply chains.

Extreme Heat Income Insurance

In 2023, Blue Marble launched their inaugural extreme heat pilot project, targeting the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in Gujarat, India. The program aims to support SEWA members, especially women, working in various informal sector occupations during heat waves by providing income replacement, education on heat-related health impacts, and distributing helpful supplies for adaptation. The initiative plans to expand into 18+ different states.

Nestle/Nespresso

In 2018, Blue Marble launched Café Seguro with Nestle/Nespresso to serve Colombian smallholder coffee farmers and the program has expanded to bring protection to Nespresso coffee farmers across Indonesia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Guatemala and Honduras with an additional program being designed in Peru. Café Seguro is a parametric weather protection program to reduce farmer vulnerability at crucial stages of coffee bean development.

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Platforms

Platforms represent a continuously improving repository of tools and knowledge that drive synergies across market-facing ventures and value creation. Platforms underpin our ability to design and launch ventures quickly and efficiently. The platforms are as follows:

Climate Risk
Technology
Data Services
Social Impact
Education

Impact Capital

1

Working Capital

Funded equally by consortium members
2

Investment Capital

Blue Marble manages a venture capital fund that is owned equally by consortium members
3

Outside Investments

Welcomed at point of scale of venture

Blue Marble Microinsurance

Blue Marble Microinsurance

Our Vision

To economically empower the underserved

Our Vision

Mission

Values

Our Mission

Our Values

Consortium Members

Harnessing Talent

Collaborative Partners

Blue Marble Supports

Farmers

Microentrepreneurs

Underserved Communities

Venture Process

Venture Process

Idea Generation

Acceleration

Pilot

Scale

Ventures

Africa

Latin America

Featured Ventures

Climate Finance Development Accelerator

Extreme Heat Income Insurance

Nestle/Nespresso

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Platforms

Climate Risk

Technology

Data Services

Social Impact

Education

Impact Capital

1

2

3