Revealed – Australian winner of 2023 Zurich Innovation Championship

Australian insurtech start-up Kanopi has won the Australian round of Zurich Financial Services Australia’s global Innovation Championship for 2023.

Now in its fourth year, the Zurich Innovation Championship enables start-ups to work with Zurich to solve key challenges in the insurance industry. This year, the insurance giant focused on customer experience, commercial insurance, distribution partnerships, digital enablement, and sustainability.

Australian winner of 2023 Zurich Innovation Championship

Kanopi is a cloud-native, data-driven platform that uses modular, low-code software to help insurers create, manage, distribute, embed, and scale new products to customers. It brought home the bacon for its innovative customer-facing software platform designed to empower insurers and their customers.

“As an insurer, we understand how quickly risks can change. Investing in innovative, digital solutions is incredibly important to ensure we are evolving at the same rapid pace and can continue to serve customers to the high standard Zurich is known for,” said Jacqui Lennon, head of retail at Zurich Australia and New Zealand.

Kanopi founder and chief executive Nigel Fellowes-Freeman said: “We are incredibly excited to win the Australian round of the Zurich Innovation Championship – and at the prospect of Zurich’s support to really scale our product offering to the next level.”