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Working from Home during COVID-19? What You Can Learn From Our ‘Remote First’ Culture

2020 will go down as the year that COVID-19 turned travel upside down. It will also be remembered as the year 'working from home' went mainstream. As a remote-first workplace, the team at IBU have been prepping for this day since 2014. And while we might be weathering one of our industry's toughest...

IBU Appoints New General Manager Amid Rapid Growth

In response to rapid market expansion, IBU has appointed Sarah Drysdale as its new General Manager. Since launching in 2015, Insured by Us has seen continued growth through its partnerships in Australia and New Zealand. Despite the challenging environment, 2020 marks a watershed moment for the...

Travel with Jane to Donate 10% of Sales for a Year

Travel with Jane, powered by Insured By Us, is a travel insurance brand for women. Since inception the brand has been about levelling the playing field for women in Australia.In 2020, Travel with Jane is taking the fight global by building on its gender pay gap discount. When IBU brand Travel with...

The early money and the ANZIIF Insurtech Conference

Where is the early money for Insurtechs in Australia? Where is the adventurous capacity? What areas of Insurtech are seeing rapid growth? How do you convince VCs to invest in a pre-revenue Insurtech? How do we go international without a regulatory footprint? Should an Insurtech take money from a...

Who’s Who At IBU? Meet Georgina

Before joining IBU as Head of People & Culture in 2018, IBU had not yet discovered the joys of Virtual Offsites - with snacks provided! As well as the dynamic goal setting and professional development that Georgina's introduced and championed within our remote-first culture. Let's find out what...

Dev’ing Insurance Technology like Apple and Google

Just like the best of silicon valley, IBU is built on start-up foundations and a tech-lead culture. So it should come as no surprise that IBU is always striving to find ways to better develop our APIs and software products. Here are 3 of the ways we orientate ourselves to deliver. Beyond agile In...

Who’s Who At IBU? Meet Tracy Mu Sung

While IBU's team today fills an entire Zoom screen's worth of profile avatars, we launched with no more than 5 people. Tracy Mu is one of few who can claim to know IBU's journey from the very start. A journey in which she has quantum leaped from graduate developer to Engineering Team Lead. There's...

IBU’s API Considered the ‘Gold Standard’ by Aggregators

IBU met with Australia's largest insurance aggregators to discuss their plans for 2020. Here's what they had to say about our Pricing API. One of the great things we learned at insurance and utility aggregator, Compare The Market, was that IBU's Pricing API, and the new CTM endpoint, is the 'gold...

Who’s Who At IBU? Meet Sarah Drysdale

Since joining IBU's product development team in April 2018, Sarah's positive impact has been appreciated across every team and process at IBU. So it was with unanimous applause that we welcomed Sarah's appointment as General Manager this year. For those of you who haven't met her, or sat down for a...

8.12.19 – Release Notes: Habuka 1.0

Hakuba is the name we have given to the Promotional Code feature for Pangea. Hakuba introduces the ability for traveller to enter promo codes on the purchase path and obtain a discount. Whether you're working with a client developed purchase paths or IBU's Kyoto purchase path, our latest Hakuba...

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