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Cerchia
Enabling direct transfer of event risk between protection buyers and protection sellers
About Cerchia
Cerchia.io is a Swiss fintech startup that operates in the risk management sector. It provides a platform for direct risk transfer (DRT), a financial product that allows for instant payouts triggered by certain events. The company's DRT mechanism is built on distributed ledger technology, which allows for peer-to-peer risk transfer between buyers and sellers.
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Cerchia's primary market includes institutional investors, family offices, asset managers, crypto investors, risk managers, and reinsurers. The company's services are particularly appealing to crypto investors who are looking for new, untapped investment opportunities. By connecting these investors with real-world assets, Cerchia provides access to a multi-trillion dollar market.
The company's business model is based on making risks investable. It connects capital markets with protection seekers such as reinsurances, multinational organizations, and enterprises. This is particularly important given the widening protection gap caused by limited reinsurance capacities due to the long-term costs of climate change and recent events.
Cerchia's DRT solutions can be settled either traditionally (off-chain) or digitally (on-chain), depending on the client's risk management strategy. The company also offers automated parametric event risk payouts/returns, which are bridged to specific trigger indices provided by certified agencies.
Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Switzerland, with a representative office in Singapore, Cerchia is establishing access to a USD 2,000 billion market opportunity.
At a glance
- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2020
- Headquarters
- Zug, Switzerland
- Employees
- 1
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 49.2/100
- Industry
- Fintech
- Sub-industry
- Insurance, Crypto and DeFi
- Sector
- Fintech, Peer-to-Peer, Sustainable Development Goals, Decentralised Applications, Climate Risk, PandC Insurance, Parametric Insurance, Crypto Exchange, Defi
- Technology
- Blockchain
- Business model
- Marketplace & ecommerce
- Client focus
- b2b
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEED✓Equity / VC | Jan 2023 | $1.2M | $4.8M | HTGF | ↗ |
| EARLY VC✓Equity / VC | Feb 2022 | $1.3M | $5.2M | SICTIC | — |
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Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for Cerchia is 200 monthly website visits, down 42.9% over the last three months. Cerchia's team grew 0% over the past year.
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SICTIC
Other known investors1 additional known investor
Dominik Lohle
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