Femgineer Friendly Company: CoverHound
CoverHound is an up-and-coming startup in San Francisco, CA, founded by Basil Enan, who is currently the CEO. Basil is focused on building his …
CoverHound is an up-and-coming startup in San Francisco, CA, founded by Basil Enan, who is currently the CEO. Basil is focused on building his business, which helps consumers find the best insurance policies for their needs. The inspiration for CoverHound arouse after Basil grew dissatisfied at the way customers were being treated by insurance providers. He had been an executive at InsWeb, where he sold leads to CMO Rory Joyce, then at Kemper Insurance. Finally, he left to start CoverHound, because he believed that the insurance market should be open to price comparison.
Basil founded CoverHound in May of 2010. He met CTO Joel Hayhurst, who had engineered a lead system for Affinity Labs, and similarly wanted to challenge the insurance model.CoverHound has grown in the past 3 years, and recently received Series A funding to the tune of $4.5 million from RRE Ventures.
While Basil is focused on the business, he also believes in building a culture that is is Femgineer friendly. He recently reached out to me to come, and host a Femgineer Forum at the CoverHound offices. He wants his team to learn techniques to attracting Femgineers so they can instill a friendly company culture.
Aside from striving to be Femgineer friendly, CoverHound also has a pretty relaxed culture. It believes in work-life balance, making it different from your average fueled by Red Bull and Monster startup. They do indeed work hard, but aim to take responsibility for things whether small or large while working, and also have time to enjoy time outside of work.
CoverHound also aims to bring the ideas of employees to life. If there is enthusiasm for an idea or even if it’s just a: “Yeah that’s something we can try…”, the proposer will receive resources to support executing the idea. If the project is a success, then great. If it proves to be less than a success, then as a company CoverHound tries to minimize the impact and go over lessons learned, but there is never a sense that failure is to be avoided at all costs.
Join me as I host the next Femgineer Forum on April 2nd sponsored by CoverHound.
