HIPPO HOLDINGS INC.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(Unaudited)
1. Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Description of Business
Hippo Holdings Inc. (f/k/a Hippo Enterprises Inc.) was originally incorporated under the name Reinvent Technology Partners Z (“RTPZ”) as a blank check company incorporated, a Cayman Islands exempted company, on October 2, 2020 for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock-exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination. On August 2, 2021, RTPZ domesticated as a Delaware corporation (the “Domestication”) and consummated the merger of RTPZ Merger Sub Inc. (“Merger Sub”), a Delaware corporation and subsidiary of RTPZ, with and into Hippo Enterprises Inc. (“Hippo”), a Delaware corporation (the “First Merger”), with Hippo surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Hippo Holdings, and, immediately following the First Merger, the merger of Hippo (as the surviving corporation of the First Merger) with and into Hippo Holdings, with Hippo Holdings surviving (the “Second Merger” and, together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”), in each case pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 3, 2021, by and among RTPZ, Merger Sub and Hippo.
Hippo Enterprises Inc., the holding company, was incorporated in January 2019 in Delaware (together with its subsidiaries, the “Company”, “Hippo”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). On October 3, 2019, the Company completed a corporate re-organization (a common control transaction) to improve its overall corporate structure, in which it brought under its control Hippo Analytics Inc., which was incorporated in October 2015 in Delaware, along with Hippo Analytics Inc.’s other subsidiaries.
The Company provides property insurance brokerage services and underwrites insurance policies for customers. The Company’s subsidiaries are licensed insurance companies and agencies including a licensed insurance program manager, producers, and insurance carriers. The Company distributes insurance products and services (e.g., claims processing) through its innovative technology platform aiming to provide the best offering in market coverage and pricing. The Company offers its policies direct-to-consumer, or through licensed insurance agents. The insurance products offered through Hippo Analytics Inc. primarily include homeowners’ insurance against risks of fire, wind, and theft. The Company is licensed as an insurance agency in 50 states and the District of Columbia and currently underwrites and distributes policies in 36 states as a managing general agent. The Company’s headquarters are located in Palo Alto, California.
In August 2020, the Company acquired its largest insurance carrier partner, Spinnaker Insurance Company (“Spinnaker”). Spinnaker writes commercial and personal lines products and is a licensed property casualty carrier in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Beginning in September 2020, in connection with the acquisition of Spinnaker, the Company also retains portions of direct insurance risk for programs underwritten by third parties. The amount of risk retention is varied across the different programs. In January 2020, the Company began assuming insurance risk of policies underwritten by Hippo through a wholly owned Cayman domiciled insurance captive, RH Solutions Insurance Ltd. (“RHS”).
Basis of Presentation and Consolidation
The accompanying interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) and are consistent in all material respects with those applied in the Company’s financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2020 included in Reinvent Technology Partners Z prospectus on Form S-4/A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on May 11, 2021. All intercompany transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The Company bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that the Company believes to be reasonable under the circumstances.
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