All the headlines from our Funding Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 7 2017 // The fourteenth annual LWCC Kids’ Chance invitational golf tournament raised over $35,000 for the Louisiana Bar Foundation (LBF) Kids’ Chance Scholarship Program.The Kids’ Chance Scholarship Program...
Nov 7 2017 // AmTrust Financial Services will make about $950 million by selling a majority equity interest in some of its U.S.-based fee businesses including managing general agencies and warranty third-party administrators to private...
Oct 24 2017 // Insurdata, an insurtech firm that provides re/insurance underwriters with property-specific data to support their pricing, underwriting and portfolio management decisions, announced it has raised over $1 million in seed...
Oct 19 2017 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Dan Berry leader of the firm’s private equity and venture capital group. Berry is a senior vice president and partner in Woodruff-Sawyer. He joined the firm in 2011 and has...
Oct 13 2017 // The Indian government raised about 98 billion rupees ($1.5 billion) on Friday by selling some of its shares in General Insurance Corp of India (GIC Re), the nation’s top reinsurer, in the country’s biggest...
Oct 6 2017 // Clearsurance, a crowdsourced review, rating and educational platform for the insurance industry, has raised $4 million in a Series A funding round.The round was led by its co-founder, Michael Crowe, and includes Davis...
Oct 5 2017 // Slice Labs Inc., a company offering an on-demand insurance platform for rideshare and homeshare risks in the United States, has announced a Series A investment of $11.6 million led by XL Innovate, with participation from...
Oct 4 2017 // PremFina Ltd., a UK firm that provides software to insurance brokers, raised $36 million in its first round of funding as founder and serial entrepreneur Bundeep Singh Rangar seeks to expand the company.The equity and debt...
Sep 28 2017 // Chicago, Ill.-based Clearcover announced an initial funding round of $11.5 million led by Lightbank.Greycroft Partners, 500 Startups, Silicon Valley Bank, and other insurance and fintech investors also participated in the...
Sep 25 2017 // A government sale of Japan Post Holdings Co. stock raised $11 billion in the world’s second-biggest share sale this year, with the postal and financial giant’s attractive dividend yield helping drum up...
Sep 12 2017 // Liberty Mutual’s venture arm is among the investors backing the new $92 million funding round for Turo, a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace.Dan Robinson, managing director of Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures,...
Sep 8 2017 // ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co Ltd’s initial public offering of shares opening next week aims to raise up to 57 billion rupees ($892 million), the latest listing in what is expected to be a record-setting year...
Aug 30 2017 // Insurtech startup, Sherpa, announced it has raised $2.3 million in funding from angel investors, in a venture designed to “change the way personal insurance is delivered.”“We have completely re-thought...
Aug 25 2017 // Roost, a developer of home telematics for property insurance carriers, raised $10.4 million from three international insurance industry companies.Aviva Ventures led the Series B financing; Desjardins Insurance and Fosun RZ...
Aug 22 2017 // For years, Kai-Fu Lee would share his venture capital firm’s office space in Beijing with startups he was backing so they could get advice and collaborate with each other. But about three months ago, the last of the...
Aug 17 2017 // Ex-Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick said the lawsuit brought by venture-capital firm Benchmark seeking his ouster from the company’s board should be heard in private arbitration.In a...
Jul 10 2017 // The insurer of London’s Grenfell Tower, where at least 80 people died in a devastating fire, raised its estimate for property and liability insurance claims to 50 million pounds ($65 million) on Friday [July...
Jun 22 2017 // Blockchain, the London-based bitcoin currency service provider, has raised $40 million of fresh funding, representing one of the largest investment rounds in the financial technology sector since Britain’s vote to...
Jun 14 2017 // Insurer XL Catlin’s venture capital arm is among firms helping to back a $10 million financing for Notion, an Internet of Things-related startup focused on a low-cost remote smart home sensor for home security.XL...
Jun 7 2017 // XL Catlin has raised its global property insurance capacity by 25 percent to US$500 million, which is available on a quota share or layered basis,.With this capacity increase, the company said it will better address...