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Artificial Intelligence Startup Cytora Raises $5.9M from QBE, Starr, Other Investors

Dec 6 2017 // Artificial intelligence startup Cytora has raised $5.9 million in new financing from investors including divisions of QBE’s venture capital arm and Starr Cos.QBE Ventures, Starr Global Holding, Cambridge Innovation...

Insurtech MGA Wrisk Gets UK Regulatory Authorization

Dec 6 2017 // On the heels of its recent successful crowdfunding raise, the app-based insurtech managing general agent Wrisk has made another major step forward, receiving full authorization from the UK’s Financial Conduct...

Insurtech Startup Debuts with $6M and Proactive Cyber Risk Product

Dec 4 2017 // A California insurtech startup with a new cyber product has launched to offer brokers and their clients what it calls “redesigned insurance, with cyber security expertise at its core.”Mountain View,...

AFL Insurance Brokers Taps RK Harrison’s Stagg to Drive Tech Innovation

Dec 1 2017 // AFL Insurance Brokers Ltd. announced that re/insurance broker George Stagg has joined the company to lead its technology incubator division as associate director, innovation.Stagg joins from RK Harrison, where he was most...

Chinese Startup Develops ‘Taxi Drone’ with Plans for 2018 Rollout

Nov 29 2017 // A Chinese startup has developed a flying car that it plans to roll out as soon as next year.EHang Inc.’s E-184 drone can carry one passenger in its small cockpit, but the firm says it’s working on a model that...

Four Reasons to Explore Underwriting Automation

Nov 28 2017 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.If you’re reading this blog, then you are likely interested in learning more about how you can make your company’s property underwriting process more...

Insurance Startup Berkley One Launches in Illinois

Nov 28 2017 // Startup insurance provider, Berkley One, has launched in Illinois, the first state of a planned national state-by-state rollout.Working with a select group of independent agents, Berkley One offers home, automobile, fine...

Trump Wants NAFTA to Limit Liability of Internet Firms Including Google, Facebook

Nov 27 2017 // The Trump administration is pushing to add legal protections in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that would limit the liability of internet giants such as Google and Facebook, marking the latest in a...

Airbus Aims to Develop Single Pilot, Autonomous Aircraft to Cut Crew Needs

Nov 22 2017 // Airbus SE is looking to develop autonomous aircraft and technologies that will allow a single pilot to operate commercial jetliners, helping cut costs for carriers, Chief Technology Officer Paul Eremenko said.“The...

Uber, Transitioning to Fleet Operator, Orders 24,000 Driverless Cars from Volvo

Nov 21 2017 // Uber plans to buy up to 24,000 self-driving cars from Volvo, marking the transition of the U.S. firm from an app used to summon a taxi to the owner and operator of a fleet of cars.The non-binding framework deal could offer...

Conservatives Now Want to Abolish Board They Hoped Would Curtail Patent Suits

Nov 21 2017 // In August, a dozen inventors gathered around a fire pit outside the headquarters of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia, and set alight patents they said had been rendered worthless by an...

USAA Among Backers of Home Water Damage Prevention Startup Flo

Nov 20 2017 // Flo Technologies has unveiled Flo, an intelligent home water monitoring and conservation system that promises to help reduce water damage insurance claims. The startup has raised a total of $11.5 million from investors led...

Recent Hurricanes Highlight the Need for Digital Transformation in Insurance

Nov 20 2017 // The claims for Hurricane Irma are starting to pour in and they’ll be big, $25 billion to $35 billion, forecaster AIR Worldwide says.The scenes of flooding, displaced people, wrecked homes and disrupted communities...

Tech Tips to Reach Millennials: Tech Talk

Nov 20 2017 // Independent agents are slowly accepting the fact that they need to reach out to millennials more effectively. Much of the generation that is now between the ages of 20-36 is entering its prime earning years and starting...

Insurtech Startup Debuts with $6M and Proactive Cyber Risk Product

Nov 16 2017 // A California insurtech startup with a new cyber product has launched today to offer brokers and their clients what it calls “redesigned insurance, with cyber security expertise at its core.”Mountain View,...

Humans Must Fight the Driverless Dystopia: Viewpoint

Nov 14 2017 // Two iconic figures in the car industry — former General Motors head of product development Bob Lutz and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance Chairman Carlos Ghosn — have recently outlined competing visions for the future...

Xceedance Makes Equity Investment in Startup Blockchain Specialist ChainThat

Nov 14 2017 // Xceedance, the provider of insurance consulting, managed services, technology and data sciences, announced a multi-million dollar “Series A” equity investment in ChainThat, a London-based blockchain specialist...

Uber, Tech Firms Helping Their Contract Workers Sign onto Obamacare

Nov 14 2017 // Uber Technologies Inc. and some smaller technology companies are launching campaigns to publicize Obamacare enrollment among their contract workers after the Trump administration slashed government marketing for the health...

How Sex Trafficking Became Battleground in Fight Over Big Tech Immunity

Nov 9 2017 // During last week’s hearings about the industry’s role in the 2016 presidential election, one ominous moment for Big Tech came when California Senator Dianne Feinstein, the industry’s representative in...

French Startup Navya to Roll Out $290,000 ‘Robotaxi’ in Paris Within Weeks

Nov 8 2017 // Navya Technologies SAS will roll its robot-driven automobiles onto the cobbled streets of Paris in the next few weeks to try and beat behemoths from General Motors Co. to Alphabet Inc. at proving autonomous cars are...