Our mission is to positively affect the lives of more than 1 billion people, either directly or indirectly, with financial resilience, helping them to mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change
Our vision is one where everyone has access to climate risk mitigation products with the cost of these climate risk insurance products being priced in to investment decisions
Our goal is to grow a suite of world-leading digital solutions for the climate risk transfer market that empower businesses, communities and governments to thrive sustainably. We aim to bridge the gap between 1.5°C and reality
Yokahu was founded in 2019 and went on to sign a climate research partnership with the University of East Anglia in 2020. UEA has been at the forefront of climate research for more than 50 years and it's climate research unit is widely recognised as one of the world's leading institutions concerned with the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change
Yokahu became a Lloyd's Coverholder in 2021 allowing us to distribute insurance in over 90 countries worldwide
Yolahu launched a number of pilot projects in the Caribbean for parametric weather. This allowed us to gain far more insight into the challenges involved in designing and distributing parametric weather products
2022 was spend taking the learnings from our pilot projects, running further experiments and and adapting the business model. Yokahu graduated from AWS Fintech accelerator and the Lloyd's of London Lab during this year
Yokahu has won several accolates including being finalists for the international 'AI for the Planet' award, co-run by Boston Consulting Group and the United Nations. We were also invited by UNEP to present to the delegates of the COP 28 on the use of digitisation and data
Yokahu spent four years developing the software for the cat-risk.com platform which was finally unveiled to the insurance markets in early 2025
Yokahu was born out of the insurance industry's need to evolve digitally and build better parametric weather risk transfer products
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By working closely with our key market partners, we prepare today's market for the needs of the future
We are an approved coverholder within the Lloyd's of London Insurance market
Yokahu is an Appointed Representative of ES Risks Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority
