Lemonade Announces Extension of CAC Financing Agreement with General Catalyst
11 Gennaio 2024 - 10:30PM
Business Wire
Lemonade (NYSE: LMND), the digital insurance company powered by
AI and social impact, today announced the extension and expansion
of its financing relationship with General Catalyst (GC) - AKA
‘Synthetic Agents’ - whereby GC finances up to 80% of Lemonade’s
spending specifically related to customer acquisition cost
(CAC).
Under the original agreement, GC agreed to finance up to $150
million of CAC spend for the 18 months from July 2023 through
December 2024. With today’s announcement, the agreement has been
extended through December 2025, and an incremental $140 million
will be made available to Lemonade.
All other material business terms in the original agreement
remain unchanged.
This extension provides additional certainty and tactical
support for Lemonade’s capital-light growth strategy - a key
assumption underpinning the company’s multi-year view on liquidity,
which was discussed in the Q3 2023 Letter to Shareholders.
About Lemonade
Lemonade offers renters, homeowners, car, pet, and life
insurance. Powered by artificial intelligence and social impact,
Lemonade’s full stack insurance carriers in the US and the EU
replace brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning,
aiming for zero paperwork and instant everything. A Certified
B-Corp, Lemonade gives unused premiums to nonprofits selected by
its community, during its annual Giveback. Lemonade is currently
available in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, France,
and the UK, and continues to expand globally.
Follow @lemonade_inc on Twitter for updates.
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Press Release contains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995.
All statements other than statements of historical fact
contained in this Press Release, including without limitation
statements regarding the anticipated benefits of the amended and
restated customer acquisition agreement with General Catalyst and
expectations regarding its impact on our capital-light growth
strategy and multi-year view on liquidity, the expected future
results of operations and financial position, and our ability to
effectively manage the growth of our business are forward-looking
statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual
results, performance or achievements to be materially different
from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or
implied by the forward-looking statements.
These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important
factors that may cause our actual results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied to be materially different from
any future results, performance or achievements expressed or
implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not
limited to the following: our history of losses and the fact that
we may not achieve or maintain profitability in the future; our
ability to retain and expand our customer base; the risk that the
“Lemonade” brand may not become as widely known as incumbents’
brands or the brand may become tarnished; the denial of claims or
our failure to accurately and timely pay claims; our ability to
attain greater value from each user; the novelty of our business
model and its unpredictable efficacy and susceptibility to
unintended consequences; the possibility that we could be forced to
modify or eliminate our Giveback; our limited operating history;
our ability to manage our growth effectively; the intense
competition in the segments of the insurance industry in which we
operate; risks related to the availability of reinsurance at
current levels and prices; our exposure to counterparty risks; our
ability to maintain our risk-based capital at the required levels;
our ability to expand our product offerings; risks, including
regulatory risks, related to the operation, development, and
implementation of our proprietary artificial intelligence
algorithms and telematics based pricing model; legislation or legal
requirements that may affect how we communicate with customers; our
reliance on artificial intelligence, telematics, mobile technology,
and our digital platforms to collect data that we utilize in our
business; our dependence on search engines, social media platforms,
digital app stores, content-based online advertising and other
online sources to attract consumers to our website and our online
app; our ability to obtain additional capital to the extent
required to grow our business, which may not be available on terms
acceptable to us or at all; periodic examinations by state
insurance regulators; our actual or perceived failure to protect
customer information and other data as a result of security
incidents or real or perceived errors, failures or bugs in our
systems, website or app, respect customers’ privacy, or comply with
data privacy and security laws and regulations; underwriting risks
accurately and charging competitive yet profitable rates to
customers; potentially significant expenses incurred in connection
with any new products before generating revenue from such products;
risks associated with any costs incurred and other risks as we
expand our business in the U.S. and internationally; our ability to
successfully combine the businesses of Lemonade and Metromile and
realize the anticipated benefits of the merger; the cyclical nature
of the insurance industry; risks related to our ability to comply
with extensive insurance industry regulations and additional
regulatory requirements specific to other vertical markets that we
enter or have entered; our ability to predict the impacts of severe
weather events and catastrophes, including the effects of climate
change and global pandemics, on our business and the global economy
generally; increasing scrutiny, actions, and changing expectations
on environmental, social, and governance matters; fluctuations of
our results of operations on a quarterly and annual basis; our
utilization of customer and third party data in underwriting our
policies; limitations in the analytical models used to assess and
predict our exposure to catastrophe losses; risks related to
potential losses that could be greater than our loss and loss
adjustment expense reserves; the minimum capital and surplus
requirements our insurance subsidiaries are required to have;
assessments and other surcharges from state guaranty funds; our
status and obligations as a public benefit corporation; the ability
of significant shareholders to influence the outcome of important
transactions, including a change in control; our operations in
Israel and the current political, economic, and military
instability, including the evolving conflict in Israel and
surrounding region; and the impact of the amended and restated
customer investment agreement with General Catalyst which is
unpredictable, and the arrangement may not function as
expected.
These and other important factors described under the caption
"Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2022 filed on March 3, 2023, our periodic
report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2023 filed
on November 3, 2023, our other periodic reports, and in our other
subsequent filings with the SEC, could cause actual results to
differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking
statements made in this Press Release. Any such forward-looking
statements represent management’s beliefs as of the date of this
Press Release. While we may elect to update such forward-looking
statements at some point in the future, we disclaim any obligation
to do so, even if subsequent events cause our views to change.
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Natalie Gerke natalie.gerke@lemonade.com
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