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Demeter Capital

5500 Military Trail 22-112, Jupiter, FL, 33458, United States

Overview

The two most powerful macroeconomic forces of the information era are exponential technological progress and global expansion of sovereign debt. Each of Demeter Capital's investment holdings is strongly influenced by one or both of these forces. Within the first trend, Demeter Capital's investments include companies that invent disruptive technologies and the downstream assets that benefit from innovation. Meanwhile, companies that are actively being disrupted or are stagnating within dying industries make up many of our favorite short positions. Within the second trend, Demeter Capital invests in assets that rise or fall in response to traditional macro factors such as interest rates, monetary policy, demographics, etc. These include currencies, commodities, and broad stock and bond indices.

Total investments
2
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
0

Sector focus

  • Asset Management
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • SIGO

    Participated · Seed · Apr 2021

    Sigo is a Latinx-founded managing general agency that provides affordable access to auto insurance for underserved immigrant and Latinx customers via a natively bilingual, mobile-first platform. The company has written hundreds of thousands of dollars in premiums through its agency business and maintains a customer retention rate above 80% in California and Texas. Sigo removes biased rate factors from underwriting and plans to launch its own insurance product in Texas that replaces discriminatory metrics with telematics and a Spanish-language safe driving app. Founded in 2019 and operating from Jersey City, N.J., Sigo currently serves customers in California and Texas. The team is 100% Black- and Latinx-led and is supported by advisors with decades of insurance experience. Mentorship from programs like Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator and gener8tor has aided the company's growth and hiring expansion.

  • Sigo Seguros

    Participated · Seed · Apr 2021

    Sigo Seguros operates a digital-first platform underwriting non-standard auto insurance, enabling customers to buy policies in minutes from their phones and avoid onerous downpayment fees. The company targets working-class drivers and initially focuses on Hispanic and Latino communities by offering a full bilingual experience in Spanish. Its underwriting technology has produced profitable loss ratios, distinguishing it from other auto insurtech cycles. Sigo reported over 500% growth in Gross Written Premiums last year and payback periods measured in weeks. The financing is intended to fund expansion into new markets with large immigrant communities and limited suitable insurance options. As part of the investment, Rafael Varela will join Sigo’s board of directors. Sigo Seguros provides bilingual, mobile‑first auto insurance tailored to immigrant and working‑class drivers, with a focus on Latino and Spanish‑speaking communities. The company’s product eliminates additional fees and biased rating factors such as credit score and employment, and offers a bilingual end‑to‑end customer experience. It launched a proprietary product in August 2021 and is headquartered in Texas; the company was founded in 2019. Sigo reports it exceeded prior‑year sales in just the first half of 2023 and sees payback periods measured in weeks and months. The company plans to double its team by the end of the year and use new funding to expand customer‑facing technology, continue digitizing underwriting, and expand into new markets with large immigrant communities. Sigo Seguros is an Austin, TX-based insurtech founded in 2019 that provides affordable auto insurance for Spanish-speaking and immigrant communities. It offers a fully bilingual, mobile-first platform that simplifies the insurance experience and launched its inclusive auto insurance product in August 2021. The company provides transparent pricing without fees or biased rating factors and offers coverage to customers with foreign IDs or licenses. Sigo currently serves Texas and plans to expand into more states in 2023. It recently raised $5.4m in seed funding to expand operations and broaden access to equitable insurance for immigrant and working-class populations. The company has made key hires, including a Vice President of Insurance and a Senior Product Manager, and will continue hiring across insurance, technology, and business functions. Sigo is a managing general agency founded in 2019 that provides auto insurance to underserved immigrant and Latinx customers through a tech-enabled, bilingual, mobile-first direct-to-consumer platform. Headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, the company currently offers coverage in California and Texas. Sigo raised $1.5M in seed funding to support its growth. The company plans to use the funds to continue expanding operations and broaden the reach of its auto insurance product among immigrant and Latinx communities. The startup was founded by Néstor Hugo Solari and Júlio Erdos. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article.

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