Metromile vs Kin Insurance
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SF pay-per-mile auto insurance pioneer acquired by Lemonade (NYSE: LMND) Jul 2022 for ~$500M; 49-state licenses and 500M+ trip dataset now powering Lemonade Car telematics competing with Root and Progressive Snapshot for UBI auto insurance.
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Metromile was a San Francisco-based pay-per-mile auto insurance company — acquired by Lemonade, Inc. (NYSE: LMND) in July 2022 for approximately $500 million (about $200 million net of cash) — that pioneered telematics-based usage-based insurance (UBI) in the United States, providing low-mileage drivers with auto insurance priced at a low base rate plus a per-mile fee tracked by the Metromile Pulse device (an OBD-II port dongle that measured mileage and provided vehicle diagnostics). At the time of acquisition, Metromile held insurance licenses in 49 states and had accumulated over 500 million car trip records representing a significant telematics dataset for AI-driven auto insurance modeling. Founded in 2011, Metromile expanded from Oregon to eight US states before the Lemonade acquisition integrated its operations into Lemonade's AI-powered insurance platform under SVP Dan Preston (Metromile's former CEO).
Chicago DTC homeowners insurtech (founded 2016); $50M Series E $2B valuation (Sep 2025) total $476M raised, $495M premiums (+43%), 160K policyholders in cat markets, IPO filing planned 2025 competing with Hippo for catastrophe insurance.
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Kin Insurance is a Chicago, Illinois-based direct-to-consumer homeowners insurtech — having raised $476 million total including a $50 million Series E in September 2025 at a $2 billion pre-money valuation led by QED Investors and Activate Capital, plus $200 million in debt financing from Wellington Management — providing technology-driven homeowners insurance in catastrophe-exposed markets including Florida, Texas, California, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arizona, and Virginia where traditional insurers are retreating. Founded in 2016 by CEO Sean Harper, Lucas Ward, Sebastian Villarreal, and Stephen Wooten (entrepreneurs with fintech backgrounds from Groupon, Insight Venture Partners, and Avant), Kin operates as a Managing General Agent (MGA) writing policies on behalf of reciprocal exchanges it manages — a structure that gives Kin underwriting control and risk management authority while distributing policy risk through the reciprocal exchange mechanism rather than Kin's own balance sheet. In fiscal year 2024, Kin wrote $495.3 million in premiums (up 43% from $346.3 million in 2023), generated $156.1 million in total revenue (+48% YoY), served 160,000 policyholders (up from 115,000 in 2023), and the reciprocal exchanges it manages achieved their first full year of profitability with $12 million in operating income (+126%). The company's total insured property value surpassed $100 billion by April 2025, and Kin employs 800 people.
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