Innovation intelligence brief
Innovation intelligence brief
Provides insurances brokers and agents with an easy and structured access to Insurance products as expected by their customers
What became of it
Blocked · Low confidence · Last verified 2026-10-17
Research is blocked: there was not enough public evidence to establish what became of this innovation. Nothing below should be read as a verified 2026 status.
As catalogued
App and platform giving German insurance brokers structured digital access to product and niche insurance (phones, laptops, classic cars, mopeds, drones), bookable live at the point of sale with direct insurer connection and embeddable in brokers' websites and social channels; also offered as white-label technology to insurers.
2026 reality
en.virado.de returns 404 and virado.de shows only the page title 'Virado Website' with no content. Startbase still lists the operating entity, ED Ensure Digital GmbH (licensed broker under § 34d GewO), with Christian Berlage as managing director. No evidence of product activity after 2017 was found.
Founded around 2014-2015 as Erste Digital by Achim Hepp, Armin Molla and Christian Berlage and renamed Virado; reported investors include InsurTech.vc, Ergo Capital and business angel Gero Presser (seed, 2016). In January 2017 it released its broker app for Apple devices; a companion app, Scan2Insure, insured products by barcode scan. Revenue reportedly came from commissions. Managing directors changed (Molla 2014-2018, Matthias Jacobi 2018-2020, per Startbase). No acquisition, closure or later product news was found.
REVIEW · Independent search surfaced only 2016-2020 sources (openPR, experten.de, Startbase); no evidence of 2026 status. Kept BLOCKED; no changes.
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Research interpretation
Classification paths, as catalogued, connect this example to the original insurance digitalization research models.