Newly rebranded Thimble raises $22M to bring flexible insurance to the gig economy

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Thimble, which offers flexible, short-term insurance to small businesses and freelancers, is announcing that it has raised $22 million in a
insurance to drone pilots
However, founder and CEO Jay Bregman (who previously founded ridesharing company Hailo) said that thanks to customer demand, the team kept
100 professions, including handymen, landscapers, DJs, musicians, beauticians and dog walkers
Policies can be purchased directly from the Thimble website or app by the hour, day, week, month or year.The idea, Bregman said, is that as
buying policies to cover a single day or less
itself
Basically, we worked with carrier partners to bring [our products] to market; the way we do that may evolve slightly as we get older and
solve a very particular problem with long-term gig employment, that some of these laws may actually unintentionally scare off or capture
businesses that may get spun off
total funding to $29 million.