{"id":842,"date":"2019-05-22T13:07:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T13:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/?p=842"},"modified":"2019-06-02T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T12:41:51","slug":"voom-exits-stealth-mode-with-5-million-a-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/2019\/05\/22\/voom-exits-stealth-mode-with-5-million-a-round\/","title":{"rendered":"VOOM Exits Stealth Mode With $5 Million A-Round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/VOOM-11.jpg\" alt=\"Voom\" class=\"wp-image-843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/VOOM-11.jpg 864w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/VOOM-11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/VOOM-11-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/VOOM-11-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/VOOM-11-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><figcaption>The Voom Team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>VOOM exited stealth mode and reported it has completed a $5 million Series-A round of funding. This brings the total amount raised by the company to $7 million. VOOM announced that its first product is the issuance of short-term insurance for drones, e-scooters, motorboats and other means of transport. VOOM&#8217;s new platform will collect mobility data points to analyze potential safety threats, including weather information and hazardous environments. VOOM will use this data to score riders&#8217; safety and performance to customize insurance policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith the rise of on-demand mobility services such as e-scooters, we discovered that in most cases, riders are not covered in case of an accident. And much more importantly, they are not aware of this fact,\u201d said Tomer Kashi, CEO and Co-Founder of VOOM. \u201cVOOM will ensure that users of unique mobility platforms can grab insurance on-the-go from their mobile devices whether they ride, fly, or sail.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VOOM\u2019s A-round was led by Arbor Ventures, with participation from returning investors: F2 Capital, Verizon Ventures, and Kaedan Capital, as well as new partner Plug and Play Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOOM exited stealth mode and reported it has completed a $5 million Series-A round of funding. This brings the total amount raised by the company to $7 million. VOOM announced that its first product is the issuance of short-term insurance for drones, e-scooters, motorboats and other means of transport. VOOM&#8217;s new platform will collect mobility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-finance","8":"category-hightech","9":"category-software"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}