Innovation intelligence brief
Innovation intelligence brief
Insuring against the weather: offers financial products that protect companies and institutions when weather conditions adversely impact their business or profits
What became of it
Completed · High confidence · Last verified 2026-10-17
As catalogued
A French weather-risk specialist and Lloyd's coverholder that priced and structured weather-index and parametric covers for companies and institutions (notably farmers and agricultural cooperatives) whose revenues depend on weather.
2026 reality
meteoprotect.com is live and presents Meteo Protect as a team within Groupe Cooper Gay, an insurance and reinsurance underwriting agency, dedicated to weather risk and parametric solutions (frost, heat, rainfall deficit, water stress) for insureds, insurers and brokers, with online simulation and subscription tools and automatic index-triggered payouts. The old /en/ path redirects to an unrelated domain.
In April 2020 Cooper Gay France, a brokerage and wholesale MGA then reported as part of the BGC Partners broking group, acquired the Meteo Protect brand and technology (including its parametric pricing platform); founder Gabriel Gross became director of a new Cooper Gay Parametric Insurance Solutions division.
an early specialist in agricultural parametric weather cover in France; it now operates as a product line of an MGA in a parametric market that has become far more crowded.
Third taxonomy
REVIEW · Verified the April 2020 Cooper Gay France acquisition of the Meteo Protect brand and technology via Artemis and the live meteoprotect.com site. Because the brand still operates as a distinct parametric weather offer within Cooper Gay, changed strategic-evolution from 'absorbed' to 'retained' and maturity from 'integrated' to 'established'.
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Research interpretation
Classification paths, as catalogued, connect this example to the original insurance digitalization research models.