The Zebra

The Zebra is an online comparison website for insurance. Whilst it focuses primarily on home and auto cover, it also provides its services for renters, condos, motorcycles, mobile homes, travel trailers, boats and RVs.

Its website offers unbiased coverage quotations, providing the same service for both low and high risk drivers. Visitors to the website simply fill out a form stating details regarding themselves and their driving habits and The Zebra will provide a list of suitable policies from over 200 of the leading insurers. When a policy has been decided upon The Zebra will then put customers in direct contact with agents of the insurer.

At the beginning of 2020, The Zebra stated it was seeing 1.3m monthly website visitors, and that its revenue had grown nearly 200% YoY to almost $37m in 2019. It continued that the company is expected to grow 'well over' 100% in 2020.

In February 2020 The Zebra announced it had secured a $38.5m Series C round led by Accel. It initially planned on raising $30m, however such was the interest in the company that it extended the round.

The Zebra announced that it has turned profitable in October 2020, and reached a $100m run rate. At the time of its Series C it had stated it had a run rate of $60m.

In April 2021 The Zebra became a Unicorn after raising a $150m Series D round, reportedly led by Hedosophia. The company also revealed it had doubled its net revenue in 2020, up from $37m in 2019 to $79m, and that it was on track for an annual run rate of $150m this year. The company plans to use the funds to accelerate growth, and eventually expand into renters and life.

In November 2021 Pawlicy Advisor partnered with The Zebra. The move enables users to buy pet insurance coverage through Pawlicy Advisor.