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Hey, this looks really fantastic, it solves a real problem for UK drivers and I think you'll be fantastically successful. However, I couldn't find any information about who's behind the site, and I wonder about the mechanism through which the insurance is provided, how is it backed?

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We are authorized & regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority as an intermediary. We have built a partnership with a European underwriter to sell policies on their behalf.

To make Cuvva possible, we've had to build every part of the system from scratch. This is mostly in Node JS, with some RoR thrown in. We also have some open source code on our Github - https://github.com/cuvva

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