Solidarity Bahrain has signed an MoU with global accelerator Brinc to embed insurance know-how into Brinc’s startup programmes, giving founders and students direct access to domain experts while offering Solidarity staff fresh mentoring roles.
Under the agreement Solidarity underwriters will coach startups, SMEs and university teams on risk-transfer basics, product design and regulatory pitfalls—topics that routinely slow early-stage growth yet rarely feature in accelerator curricula. Brinc, which runs hardware and impact-tech cohorts from its Manama hub, will weave those sessions into demo-day prep and sector-specific sprints, exposing founders to live case studies from Solidarity’s regional portfolio.
The collaboration also plugs Solidarity into Bahrain’s innovation pipeline at a time when insurers everywhere are scouting embedded-finance partners and parametric-coverage pilots. For the accelerator, bringing a C-suite insurer on board adds credibility with investors who now expect robust governance from day one. The tie-up aligns with Bahrain’s Economic Recovery Plan, which calls for deeper private-sector participation in talent development and targets financial-services innovation as a growth engine. It also complements recent moves by the Central Bank to widen its regulatory sandbox for insurtech experiments, creating a clear path from classroom to market-ready product. By bridging corporate expertise and startup agility, the partners hope to spark new insurance APIs, micro-coverage models and data-driven risk tools that can scale across the GCC.
Startups interested in the mentorship tracks can apply through Brinc’s next cohort intake, opening later this quarter.
