Buying insurance against your own death hardly sounds like a fun task, but UK-based insurtech YuLife has set itself the enormous task of “gamifying” the life insurance process through its app. And it’s just raised a $120m equity Series C round to take it global, bringing its valuation to $800m.
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July 7, 2022
YuLife raises $120m Series C to take its ‘game-like’ life insurance global
YuLife has attracted notable investors to its life insurance product — which is more or less designed to postpone policyholders’ death
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