Insurance

Goodcover

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Founded 2017Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Goodcover provides its Members with Good Renters Insurance for 50% less than legacy companies and an Annual Dividend of the money left over after claims obligations are met.

Goodcover is a Managing General Agent (MGA) that administers personal insurance on behalf of our Membership, a bit like how USAA does it.

Member's premiums are pooled and used to pay claims. We take a fixed fee, and the remainder is returned in our Annual Member Dividend.

We work with multi-billion dollar capital partners to ensure regulations are followed, adequate claims capital is always available, and we have emergency capacity for catastrophes.

Technology allows us to eliminate waste, saving roughly 25% of the cost. We are 100% digital, but not bots - we invest in tech that enables our experts to help Members.

As an Invitation Only Membership served by an MGA, **we can give Members Free Insurance** when they invite others, turning our "Marketing Budget" into savings for Members. This eliminates Lizards and Sales Agents, saving the other 25%.

We do not use the standard industry models, instead using a multiperil model to more granularly price risk. This means that for a few of you we are more expensive... but everyone else pays much less than they would otherwise pay.

Our granular, multiperil model allows us to offer a superior policy over the standard market including:

- coverage for if your place is flooded by a neighbor

- Replacement Cost Coverage (meaning new stuff for your old)

- All Risk coverage for high value items you tell us about - including computers (almost no one does that amazingly)

- added coverage for mold removal

Our MGA business model allows us to be capital efficient, "renting" capacity as we need it.

All this adds up to our government approved pricing being 40-60% cheaper on average than that of our competitors.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Collective

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Christopher Lotz

Founder/CEO

Chris has spent a decade in the insurance business working in New York, Singapore, Australia, and San Francisco. At AIG he worked on setting up high net worth personal insurance for clients all around the world. Chris is an insurance nerd who’s passionate about making insurance work better and be accessible for all.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
1team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2017 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Launched · 3 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The company website offers product access through a trial, free start, app download, purchase, or onboarding with existing-account login. Customer adoption is not established by this evidence.

Company website: home Checked 2026-09-16 · Company website: home Checked 2026-09-16

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