Santalucía Impulsa Startups launches InsurChallenges 2023 to the insurtech ecosystem

Santalucía Impulsa, the Santalucía Group's entrepreneurship and open innovation ecosystem, launches a new call and begins to work on the search for new startups to participate in Santalucía's InsurChallenges 2023 Promotes Startups.For this year's challenges, Santalucía Impulsa aims to promote knowledge in three strategic areas for the company: Silver Economy, Finance and Family. The corporate acceleration program seeks startups to participate in the challenges, as well as in the development of pilots and projects with these emerging companies.

Santalucía Promotes Startups: InsurChallenges 2023

The InsurChallenges of Santalucía Impulsa Startups are specific business and technology challenges with which the company aims to meet the needs of current and future customers. This year there are three challenges aimed at three sectors.

• Silver Economy Challenge: this challenge aims to solve the problems that the Santalucía Group has identified that this group is experiencing. These concerns are:
  • The economic future of their descendants.
  • Carrying out online transactions.
  • Dependency or who will take care of them when they stop being independent.
• Finance Challenge: with this challenge, Santalucía Impulsa Startups aims to find solutions that improve the financial education of the population. It is about encouraging and simplifying the adoption of awareness about the relevance of savings and behavioral economics.
  • Promotion of educational programs on money management and financial goals.
  • Implementation of technology that facilitates access to educational resources on personal finance.
  • Online training programs and workshops that address financial concepts.
• Family Challenge: The last challenge is to provide valuable services that accompany insurance and that facilitate the lifestyle and/or well-being of families in such important aspects as health, legal advice, family planning or leisure.
  • Family leisure, legal advice for families, health, family planning, family economics, digital protection and online security, child care, etc.
  • Ecosystem of services that support the family as a complement to insurance.

For all those interested projects, the call has already been opened. Startups can now do the InsurChallenges 2023 registration from Santalucía Impulsa Startups.

The Santalucía Corporate Acceleration Program Impulsa Startups

“Santalucía, in its commitment to innovation and constant renewal as an engine of change, channels from Santalucía Impulsa the search for new solutions that respond to the real needs of its customers. We are sure that the impetus provided by startups will help us to reinforce innovation in these three strategic areas, to remain at the forefront and to think, together, the best solutions for new social challenges, present and future”, he says Ángel Uzquiza, innovation director of Grupo Santalucía.Since its launch in 2016, Santalucía has promoted Startups, thanks to its acceleration methodology, has accelerated 26 startups that have obtained funding of 16.4 million euros. Among the startups accelerated by the open innovation program are:

• Iteralix: the first digital platform that allows family and friends to design an experience to celebrate life as a farewell.
• Ever Health: telemedicine company that offers medical services through a team of remote specialists.
• Bigle Legal: a legaltech process and document automation solution that helps companies digitize and customize legal procedures 20 times faster than usual. This one is already working with the company in the Iris Global's specialized advisory service Ahead of the elections of July 23, 2023, thanks to which travel assistance policyholders will be able to manage any legal questions related to the elections.

Santalucía Impulsa as a corporate incubator

In addition to Santalucía Startups, the company also has the incubation and entrepreneurship programSantalucía Impulsa Empleados, which is currently developing its 5th edition. In this program, the internal talent of Grupo Santalucía joins the external entrepreneurial talent through the development of innovation projects. And that's not all! Soon it will be released the third edition of Santalucía Promotes Universities, the program that seeks to promote university development with entrepreneurship and innovation projects among students.