Healthy choices matter. But you can't plan for everything.

A healthy lifestyle helps reduce many risks, but not all of them. A serious illness, loss of ability to work, or another unexpected event can change your life in an instant – affecting your income, your family’s finances, and your future plans.

We believe life insurance should do more: protect what you’ve built, and support you in making healthier choices.

Lyfery’s founders, Mihkel and Veikko, each bring nearly 30 years of experience in life insurance. We’ve seen how traditional insurance focuses on risk assessment and financial protection only. That’s why we combine life insurance with science, technology, and prevention. Already today, we factor your lifestyle into your insurance pricing and help you better understand your health and risks.

Good insurance gives you the confidence to focus on the life you want to live

How we’re changing life insurance

We’re moving step by step towards preventive life insurance. Today we offer lifestyle-based life insurance, where healthy choices influence the size of your premium. Our next step is to build a solution that helps people understand their health better, make more informed choices, and reduce their health risks.

Our long-term direction

Measure

We use modern technology to understand a person’s health behaviour and habits.

Understand

We turn data into clear insight that helps you make better decisions.

Recommend

We offer personal, science-based recommendations for reducing health risks.

Track

We support consistency, measure progress, and help keep motivation up.

Reward

A healthy lifestyle means more value: lower risk, more healthy years lived, and a fairer premium.

Our mission

We help people live longer, healthier and more securely, by making healthy choices easy and rewarding.

We bring together science, technology and life insurance to make prevention a natural part of everyday life, and investing in your health worthwhile.

Our vision

A world where living healthily gives you an advantage

We want to shape a future where life insurance isn’t only about compensating for the unexpected, but helps people grow the number of years they live in good health.

Insurance Act of the Year

Recognition

Lyfery Life Insurance received the “Insurance Act of the Year” award for its innovative approach, where a person’s lifestyle directly influences the cost of their insurance.

Compensa Life

Trustworthiness

We provide insurance in partnership with Compensa Life (Vienna Insurance Group), so the financial risk of your life insurance is backed by a strong and reliable insurer.

Lifestyle Score

Lifestyle Score

Your Lyfery premium is based on your lifestyle score – the healthier your habits, the better your insurance price. The score also helps you understand your habits more clearly.

Lyfery Lifestyle Score – Your choices matter

The Lyfery Lifestyle Score helps you understand how your everyday habits affect your health and your life insurance price. It consists of seven components, each of which is scientifically linked to risk calculation.

Behind it are Dr. Taavi Tillmann, associate professor of public health at the University of Tartu and Lyfery’s Chief Scientist, and Veikko Talmak, former Chief Actuary at Swedbank, who together developed the model that brings personalized pricing to life insurance.

What influences your Lifestyle Score

The Lifestyle Score focuses only on the most important – and changeable – health factors.

The score is designed so it doesn’t require lab tests or complicated measurements.

Genetics, family medical history, and other unchangeable risks aren’t included – because you can’t improve them yourself. The Lifestyle Score focuses only on the things you can actively influence.

Mihkel Mandre

Founder & CEO of Lyfery

The future of life insurance isn't just about compensating for unexpected events. It's about helping people live healthier, longer, and with greater security.

“I believe the future of life insurance won’t be limited to simply offering coverage. It will help people better understand their health and lifestyle, make more informed choices, and reward investing in one’s health financially.

At the same time, not everything in life can be controlled. That’s why good life insurance needs to do both — help reduce risks where we can influence them ourselves, and provide financial protection where we can’t.

That’s why we created Lyfery.”

The Lyfery team – what we believe in

Our values

Prevention

We help people understand and reduce risks before problems arise.

People first

Behind every number and data point is a person with their own life, goals and dreams.

Science-based

We build solutions grounded in science, data and practical experience.

Courage to change

We believe the future of insurance isn’t only compensating for losses, but helping people live healthier and more securely.

Trust

We build long-term trust through transparency, simplicity and responsible action.

Mihkel Mandre

CEO & Founder

25 years of experience in the life insurance industry

Mihkel has been in the life insurance industry for more than 25 years, driving business strategy, and innovation while building cross-border teams at Swedbank Life Insurance. He hails from the most digitally advanced society in the world, having renewed the product portfolio, and transformed the sales and after-service of life insurance entirely to digital channels while launching a successful tele-underwriting concept in the Baltics. Mihkel is determined to revamp the industry on a broader scale and take advantage of the technological revolution across Europe. He believes that true innovation lies in connecting different industries. Life insurance, which has a longer history than Christianity, can make a difference in our lives and the environment as well. Mihkel is convinced that, when people are provided with the tools to live a healthier life, along with full insight and understanding of the influence their behaviour has on their lives and society in general, they grasp the true essence of life insurance. There is only one life and one planet. Feel free to get in touch if his vision attracts your attention.

Veikko Tamlak

CFO & Co-Founder

30 years as an actuary

Veikko has more than thirty years of experience as an insurance mathematician. His career path started as the first-ever actuary at Estonian Governmental Insurance during the years of Estonia’s re-independence when hardly anyone knew what being an actuary meant or what it was they did. Veikko took the lead in the development of the first truly successful investment solutions at Hansabank Insurance. He built several highly functioning, successful systems and models in the actuarial field that are still in use and serving the needs of his previous employers. He’s been fascinated by the idea of lifestyle-based pricing ever since gender-based pricing was forbidden by the EU regulations. Veikko firmly believes that lifestyle-based, individual risk evaluation will not only change the whole life insurance industry but also the general area of augmented health behaviour. The future most definitely belongs to ones who take responsibility for their health and are role models for others.

Taavi Tillmann

Chief Scientific Officer

Inspires synergy and innovation

Taavi’s passion for knowledge led him to study at many of the world’s best universities. He has bachelor’s degrees in both medicine and psychology, a master’s degree in public health, and a PhD in epidemiology. While working as a hospital doctor, Taavi was frustrated by how patients would often leave the hospital only to come back a few weeks later with the same problem. This led him to study, understand and develop mathematical models that predict which individuals have a higher risk of developing heart disease in the future, such as the famous SCORE2 algorithm that is recommended by the European Society of Cardiologists. He is passionate about inspiring various stakeholders across the public and private sectors to collaborate and innovate to bring forth a better world where healthy choices are effectively promoted, marketed, supported and enabled, as prevention is always better than cure. Lyfery is a perfect manifestation of that vision, and he is delighted to integrate the best science into Lyfery’s product, making it as evidence-based and effective as currently possible.

Kadri Haller-Kikkatalo

Chief Health Strategy Officer

Passionate about bridging medical science and data analytics

Kadri’s journey has always been driven by a desire to unite medical science and data analytics to create health solutions that truly work and improve people’s lives. As both a physician and a researcher, she combines clinical experience with a PhD in molecular translational medicine, complemented by deep expertise in data science and analytics. For over 15 years, she has studied immunology, gynecology, and health data, published more than 40 scientific articles, and contributed to the development of new diagnostic and treatment methods. At Lyfery, Kadri sees a natural continuation of her mission – bringing science and innovation into people’s everyday lives. For her, insurance is a way to build systems that recognize people’s efforts and provide security even in challenging times. Kadri’s goal is to help Lyfery shape future solutions that are evidence-based, technologically smart, and humanly honest.

Kai Kuusk

Insurance Risk and Contract Expert

An empathetic and decisive client manager

Kai is an experienced insurance professional who supports Lyfery’s client communication with precision and a strong sense of responsibility. She is used to analysing complex cases, making well-considered decisions, and ensuring that every step is clear and fair for the client. Kai supports contract creation in matters related to risk assessment and policy administration, and plays an important role in communication between the client, Lyfery, and our insurance partner. Thanks to her background in banking and insurance, she combines structured thinking, legal accuracy, and the ability to explain things in a human and accessible way – the foundations on which Lyfery builds a fair and transparent life insurance experience.

Aune Petrova

Life Insurance Advisor

Aune supports our clients in making important insurance decisions.

Aune enjoys working with people and supporting them in making important life decisions. She believes that insurance is more than just a policy – it’s a way to provide peace of mind for yourself and your loved ones. With nearly ten years of experience in customer relationships and sales, Aune has learned that every person’s situation is unique. That’s why she always starts by listening to each client’s needs and goals before helping them find the solution that suits them best. What inspires Aune most about Lyfery is the opportunity to do more than offer insurance – to help people live healthier lives and prevent problems before they arise. Aune wants every client to feel supported, understood and confident throughout the advisory process, knowing that both they and their loved ones are better protected for the future.

Silver Org

Website development

Silver maintains and develops Lyfery’s website

Silver is Lyfery’s website development and maintenance partner. He keeps the site running smoothly day to day, continuously builds new features, improves what’s already there, and polishes the details that make the experience clearer and easier for visitors. Silver also creates campaign pages, calculators, and automations, while monitoring performance and technical health — so Lyfery’s website stays stable, fast, and ready to support the business at all times.

Merilin Punder

Marketing

Merilin helps Lyfery reach the masses

New ideas, a healthy lifestyle, and financial literacy make Merilin’s eyes light up. Her extensive experience in banking and insurance marketing has given her a strong foundation to bring Lyfery’s message and service to a wider audience. Before joining Lyfery, she worked at Luminor Bank for 8.5 years, the last four of which she led marketing in Estonia, managed her team, and ran Baltic-wide projects. During that time, her passion for financial literacy continued to grow. Merilin truly believes that everyone has the power to shape their own quality of life – by moving more, eating more consciously, communicating with kindness, and taking care of their health, whether mental, physical, or financial. What resonated with her most about Lyfery was its clear mission. “Finally, a start-up whose service genuinely benefits people’s lives,” Merilin says about Lyfery.

Others about Lyfery

The project “Technological development, testing, and demonstration of components of a healthy lifestyle scoring model” has received €34,580 in development grant support.

As part of the project, a model was developed to assess healthy lifestyle habits, enabling the cost-effective offering of life insurance that supports healthier living. The goal is to create a scalable, health-promoting product that can be expanded across Europe.

As a result of the project, the Lyfery app now measures lifestyle-related mortality risk on an individual customer basis.