Innovation intelligence brief
Innovation intelligence brief
Telematic is a Software as a Service (SaaS) that creates personalized auto insurance pricing models based upon driving behavior, mobile phone usage, and lifestyle behaviors.
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
Madison, Wisconsin start-up (founders Marti Ryan and Tom Yates) offering small and mid-sized auto insurers a B2B SaaS smartphone app that monitored driving and phone-handling behaviour to build personalised usage-based pricing models and a new marketing channel.
2026 reality
The catalog domain telematic.io does not resolve in DNS (checked 2026-10-17). CB Insights lists the Madison-based Telematic as 'Dead' with USD 40K raised from the Global Insurance Accelerator; no primary closure announcement was found.
Telematic took part in the 2016 Global Insurance Accelerator cohort; no later product or funding development is documented and the company is reportedly defunct.
phone-based distraction scoring later became standard in insurer and vendor telematics apps (e.g. large telematics platforms), so the concept survives in the market but not through this venture.
REVIEW · Fetched CB Insights (Dead, USD 40K from GIA, Madison, WI) and confirmed membership in the GIA 2016 class; added the cohort source. Remains BLOCKED (closure is database-only).
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