Blue Marble is a startup with a mission to extend socially impactful, commercially viable insurance protection to the underserved around the world.
Sharing the vision of collaboration to develop insurance to benefit underserved communities worldwide.
Collaboration
Innovation
Integrity
Respect
Transparency
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.
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.
Crowdsourcing ideas from 250,000+ owner company employees
Developing ideas into full-fledged business plans
Entering the market, pivoting based on lessons learned, and validating the concept
Expanding market reach of validated concept
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.
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.
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:
Funded equally by consortium members
Blue Marble manages a venture capital fund that is owned equally by consortium members
Welcomed at point of scale of venture