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Company

Modernizing the Acquisition of Insurance

Industry experts solving industry-wide inefficiencies

Redkik team meeting

Our story

Redkik was born as a result of collaboration of innovators from the USA and Nordics, with the mission to transform and improve the insurance industry for all parties within logistics and transportation.

Before founding Redkik, our founder & CEO, Chris Kalinski ran a shipping company, where he experienced first-hand the industry’s inefficiencies. The process of acquiring insurance was hard, complex and gave no flexibility to concentrate on his company’s core business. This is when Chris thought to himself: “There must be an easier way of doing this”.

As a solution, he gathered bright-minded individuals from the tech and business worlds to work on an instant and embedded transactional solution, which turned into Redkik.

What we do

Redkik’s software allows insurance to be transacted in an instantaneous way without the inefficiencies of traditional insurance. The solution has been created by industry experts to answer the difficulties of others finding themselves in similar situations. The solution moves all the complexity into the background, where the system utilizes AI and machine learning algorithms to make the user-experience as easy and simple as possible.

Starting as a cargo insurance solution, the market’s immediate response has since molded the flexible software to be used to solve additional inefficiencies for warehouse, gap, spike and cyber insurance.

Multiple other applications are currently being developed.

Our history

August 2020

Redkik was founded by Chris Kalinski with the mission to transform the insurance industry for logistics and transportation.

June    2021

Redkik closes its pre-seed funding round, backed by Redstone VC and Business Joensuu.

February 2022

Redkik raises $3.3 million in a Seed funding round to further develop its technology.

December 2023

Announce the partnership with several companies in the industry.

October 2024

$12M Premiums Quoted, $98M Avg Daily Insured Value.

Redkik founder and CEO Chris Kalinski
Video: meet our founder and CEO

Achievements

  • Top 100 European Startup at Slush
  • Top 25 Plug and Play Insurtech Startup
  • Top 9 Tech Tour Ocean Startup
  • Top 12 most promising Marine Transportation companies of 2022 by Just Founded Media
  • Top 100 Insurtechs to watch in 2023​ – ITC DIA Europe
  • Top 4 finalists of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce awards in the ‘Most Transformational’ category​
  • Top 10 finalists Insurtech NY 2023
  • Top 25 FinTech Finalists 2023 EPIC HONGKONG
  • Top 15 Maryland’s Software Innovators
  • Top 3 InsurTech in The Global Maritime Tech Startup Map 2023
  • Top 50 ITC Forward50 Americas.
  • InsurTech100 2024
Redkik as a company: team building

Investors

Redkik investor Redstone
Redkik investor Fintech Ventures
Redkik investor Plug and Play
Redkik investor Greenlight
Redkik investor MS&AD ventures

Insurance Partners

Amwins
Chubb
Roanoke
Gear
Ramon
Ergo
Howden

Technology Partner

Redkik technology partner Nolwenture

Associations

Our Founder

Chris Kalinski

Founder, Chairman of the Board, CEO

Founder of Redkik, Inc., Mr. Kalinski has worked in the logistics industry for over 20 years with a focus on technology, IOT, cold chain and Food Safety solutions.

Before starting Redkik, he worked as Senior Strategic Consultant for Oxford Management Consultants, assisting major players in the insurance and government arenas. His work history includes Vice President of Food Safety and Pharmaceutical Solutions at ORBCOMM and was responsible for FSMA strategy, dealer development, and Pharma efforts. Mr. Kalinski used to own a pharmaceutical transportation carrier lending to his knowledge of the market. He founded and sold Ameriscan, Inc in 2005 where he developed a global cold chain visibility system to provide validated temperature data to monitor ground, air and sea shipments of temperature-critical assets, primarily pharmaceuticals, through a single application. Mr. Kalinski strives to improve the industry and is co-inventor of an insurance based patent:
https://patents.justia.com/patent/10621674