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Company Culture

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October 3, 2022

Inside Claims & Insurance Support Part 2: Our team’s career paths ‍

Our team share their backgrounds, what led them to their roles at Open and the opportunities they’ve had to grow and progress along the way.
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January 31, 2023

Inside Claims & Insurance Support Part 1: What’s different (and great) about working at Open?

We chatted to five of our Claims and Insurance Support team to hear about their careers at Open and get their take on all things work-life related, from team dynamics to what makes their roles fun.
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August 4, 2022

Meet our Sunshine Coast Operations team

Our Operations team share their insights on how we work with customers at Open.
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May 12, 2020

Creating a digital workplace

Many companies like Open, are seeing the benefits of teams working digitally even when it’s safe and healthy to go back to the office. But what will it take to create a fully digital workplace where de-centralised teams can outperform their centralised peers?
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May 2, 2020

How we run an engaging, digital all hands

With hubs based across 4 different time zones, taking 30 mins out of everyone’s diary is never convenient. What we strive to do is make that the most valuable, fun and engaging 30 minutes of everyone’s week.
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September 21, 2020

Podcast: 40k policies, 40k lessons with Insurtech Australia

Huddle and Open’s Co-Founders spill the beans on their biggest mistakes and learnings over the last four years.
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May 25, 2020

How we operate efficiently with distributed teams

Open currently has team member distributed across hubs in Sydney, the Sunshine Coast and Queenstown in NZ. With another hub opening in the UK later this year, how we operate across these hubs will continue to be tested and optimized. For now, this is what we’re doing and how we’re doing it.
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Open team photo Back row from left: Nicole Buisson, Jonathan Buck, Jason Wilby, Stuart Warren, Sam Hoppe and Romain Gregoire. Front from left: Lachie Brown, and Nathan Amaral.
August 3, 2021

Open raises $31m Series B to bring connected insurance to the world

Australasian insurtech Open raised a $31 million growth round from international investors, led by Movac (NZ) with Latitude (UK) and returning investor AirTree Ventures (AU). This brings the scale-up’s total capital raised to $53 million.
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The Open tech team from Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand together in person! Author, John Halls GM of Engineering, front, third from the left.
June 7, 2022

Big ambitions, high performance and psychological safety: Scaling our engineering team at Open

My name is John Halls, I’m the GM of Engineering at Open and I make a lot of mistakes. My mantra about mistakes is simple, I’m open about making them because they’re great learning opportunities and highlight areas where we can improve.
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September 14, 2020

How we’re expanding internationally in the COVID era

There is no doubt that COVID-19 has fast tracked the digital transformation of businesses. In the absence of the ability to travel, here are some of the ways that we at Open continue to progress our international objectives.
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Jason Wilby on the Morgo podcast with Jenny Morrell
January 18, 2022

Challenges and surprises of scaling a startup with the Morgo Podcast

Jason Wilby, co-founder and joint Chief Executive at Open speaks with Morgo Podcast's Jenny Morel on scaling a high-tech company, building the future of insurance and the highlights and challenges along the way.
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February 2, 2022

Donating 1% of our revenue to causes that matter — our $82,156 donation for 2021

Open partners with 1% for the Planet, we donated 1% of our revenue to approved nonprofit organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand. We asked each organisation we support about their mission and how our donation would support their work in 2022.
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