A Swiss startup selling insurance products online has found a heavy-weight customer: the Swiss state railway company SBB.

Anivo, an startup based in Zug, has launched a new online platform, making insurance products available to employees and members of clubs and associations, the company said in a statement today.

The insuretech company has succeeded in signing a partner of considerable weight in Switzerland: the 35,000 employees of the Swiss state railway company SBB have access to the service with immediate effect, Anivo said.

Rebates for Employees

Using the platform, railway workers will enjoy special rebates on insurance products and profit from advise by insurance experts of Anivo.

Anivo is eager to expand its service and is in advanced talks with further companies, which likely will offer the service to their employees in 2017, according to Anivo CEO Alexander Bojer.

Anivo is competing with Swiss fintech firm Knip in the online brokerage of insurance products.