Innovation intelligence brief
Innovation intelligence brief
Insurance. Now it’s personal. 1. Get your personalised risk assessment, 2. Set up your Sherpa account, 3. Let Sherpa sort out your insurance, 4. Sit back and relax!
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
Malta/UK-based personal insurance manager: a personalised risk assessment followed by an account through which Sherpa arranged and managed the customer's insurance.
2026 reality
Status not established: meetsherpa.com refused connections and meetsherpa.co.uk returned no content at the time of research, and no news after about March 2019 was found. No closure, administration or acquisition evidence was found either.
Founded in 2016 (CEO and co-founder Chris Kaye), Sherpa raised USD 2.3m from InsurTech.VC and angel investors in August 2017 as a Malta-based insurtech preparing a UK launch. On 31 October 2018 it launched in the UK with a commission-free, subscription-style account bundling life and critical-illness covers for the self-employed, freelancers and contractors, with reinsurance capacity from Gen Re, according to the company. Later developments were not found.
one of several early 'insurance butler' propositions; most did not reach scale.
REVIEW · Verified the 2017 funding and 2018 launch coverage; searches found nothing after 2019, meetsherpa.com still refuses connections and meetsherpa.co.uk now looks like a parked domain (added as observation). Status stays BLOCKED.
Documented evidence
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Research interpretation
Classification paths, as catalogued, connect this example to the original insurance digitalization research models.