Julian Teicke is the CEO and co-founder of wefox, a full-stack digital insurance company driven by a simple purpose - to make people safe and prevent risk. This is achieved by reinventing insurance at scale using technology.

Julian launched wefox in 2015 as a digital platform connecting brokers to their customers and insurers. In 2018, Julian launched wefox Insurance which is Europe’s first fully-digital insurance carrier and Germany’s fastest growing insurance company. Since launch the company has doubled its revenues every year to reach USD$100M in 2020 and achieve profitability. wefox Group is Europe’s leading digital insurance company. The business has 600 employees serving more than 600,000 customers. In 2021, wefox raised a series C of
$650m - a world record for an insurtech and giving the company a market valuation of $3b.

Prior to wefox Group, Julian co-founded ‘DeinDeal’, the largest e-commerce platform in Switzerland, which established a dominant market position and was successfully sold to an international media company. He sits on four other boards and advisory committees for companies. He became a board advisor for Doctorly in November of 2017. In November of 2014, he became a founding member and advisor for EMPAUA. In 2017 he became a mentor for a company called Kenjo, and the same year he became a mentor for a business called HeartSpace.

Awards
Julian has received several honors and awards for his accomplishments in business. He is one of the top five European insurtech CEOs and in the top 25 fintech CEOs in Europe. In 2020, Julian was named “HSG Founder of the Year”. He was also named the one to watch in 2020 in the finance and insurance industry. He was also named a Swiss e-Commerce Champion and received the Swiss e-Commerce award for two years consecutively in 2013 and 2014.

Julian gained recognition as a young executive and successful entrepreneur who reached great heights of success before the age of 40. He received a “40 under 40” award from Capital Magazine. He was named the number one insurtech influencer and received a Diamond award from Digital Insurance Agenda.

Passions
The tech companies that he has founded or co-founded have made big contributions to streamlining insurance as well as other industries. He is one of the main players in the news age that is delivering enhanced technology along with the Internet of Things.

Julian also founded a non-for-profit organisation called “Healthy Together” in April 2020. This non-profit European tech alliance was formed at the start of the pandemic to help Europeans stay safe by supporting the design and launch of the “Corona-Warn-App”, which has already been downloaded 25 million times.

In 2020 Julian joined the Leaders for Climate Action group where he and several other entrepreneurs get together to share ideas and resources to deal with the climate crisis. They lobby for effective legislation for policymakers to help protect the delicate ecosystem of our planet.

Julian is also the youngest-ever serving board member of the Jewish Museum of Berlin.

Julian is married with one daughter. He lives in Berlin.