Blog

Progress in technology often comes from the steady, incremental, and iterative enhancements that drive sustained growth and meaningful change. This principle is particularly evident in insurance where improvements build on each other, leading to groundbreaking results.

Louw Hopley, co-founder at Root, unpacks how much technical skill someone needs in order to use a low-code platform like Root. If you can’t code, it can easily seem scarier than it needs to be.

Root’s partnership with Admiral Pioneer provides API-first embedded insurance platform, developed to make it easy for businesses to incorporate insurance solutions into their offerings

Louw Hopley, Co-founder at Root, speaks to InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant podcast on embedded insurance.

Last month, Alex Astengo, UK Country Manager at Root, joined a panel of experts to discuss all things embedded insurance for the latest instalment of the PropertyCasuatly360 “Future of” webcast series. Here we share some insights as to how those discussions played out.

Louw Hopley, co-founder of Root, discusses how insurers could gain 10x productivity if they switched to a low code insurance platform, at the recent ITI Conference in London.

Attending relevant industry events is important for the Root team, serving as a vital conduit for staying abreast of emerging trends, fostering strategic partnerships, and amplifying our competitive edge in the dynamic landscape of insurance technology.

International Women’s Day is a day to celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. At Root, we could not be prouder of the women that have been part of our journey.

Jonathan Stewart, Co-Founder of Root, discusses how the UK government's planned consultation on introducing a captive insurance regime could reshape the insurance landscape.

Introducing the Add-on Marketplace: A central hub of value-adding solutions from Root and trusted third-party providers, designed to empower insurance companies in creating custom-tailored insurance ecosystems.

Watch our short vlog and get to know our first dedicated UK-based employee, Alex Astengo, and where he sees our growth opportunities in the market

Root is pleased to announce that Alex Astengo has joined the company as UK Country Manager, based in London.

Louw Hopley, CEO of Root explores how retailers are embedding new revenue streams in an article for The European Financial Review.

Our CEO, Louw Hopley, was delighted to join Dan O'Riordan and Sachin Doshi from MANA Group for the latest Searching for Mana podcast.

Root Co-Founder Louw Hopely is interviewed for the influential FinPro Leadership in Insurance Podcast, reflecting on his journey so far and shining the spotlight on the dynamic insurance growth market in the UK.

Root is proud to announce its first strategic partnership in the UK with Connect by Admiral, a subsidiary of the leading insurer Admiral Group.

To succeed insurers will need to adopt APIs & leverage the ecosystem around these to service potentially infinite alternative distribution channels.

Root Platform (Root) announces today that South Africa-based Invenfin, the venture and growth capital arm of Remgro Limited, has made a further investment of $1.5m in the company.

Innovating successfully in insurance requires acceptance that, generally, insurance should be seen as a 'need' and not a 'want'.

Root's co-founder and CEO, Louw Hopley, featured in a show-and-tell session in which he explained how Root helps insurers and affinity brands get to market fast.