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From the outside it’s a bit Stromberg. Because when you think of insurance, you always think a little bit of Stromberg. And because it suits this building: medium-old, medium-sized, medium-gray. An office building, not where the big bank towers are. The city council of Frankfurt am Main has rented two floors here for the “Prevention Council Office” and the “Clean Frankfurt Office”. It’s at the bottom of the entrance. The rest of the building belongs to Clark, a digital insurance broker, an app for liability, car insurance, legal protection and so on.
But what Clark is: An insurtech startup valued at more than a billion, the success of a founding team from the Rocket Samwer cosmos. Startup superhero league, so to speak. And you can see that from the inside. Each floor is dedicated to a different superhero: in one, a gigantic green Hulk hand protrudes from the wall; in others, Captain America and Batman are stuck to meeting room glass doors like bouncers. And upstairs, at the top, there’s a picture on the wall of simple graffiti on a brick wall: “Superman is Clark Kent.”
Clark like Clark Kent, the Superman
Yes, yes, exactly, that’s where the name of his company comes from, says Christopher Oster, beaming a little. Clark as Clark Kent, the civil alias of Superman. It also comes from the English “clerk”, the accountant, because his product is, so to speak, a digital secretary that manages, organizes and sorts insurance contracts and policies. But Oster actually looks like he prefers the Superman justification.
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