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Travel Insurtech Faye Raises $10M in Series A Funding

May 23 2023 // Travel insurance startup Faye said it raised $10 million in series A funding just a year after launching its product in the U.S., bringing the company’s total funding to $18M.The round was led by Munich Re Ventures...

Obie Raises $25M Series B to Expand Embedded Insurance Technology

May 23 2023 // Insurtech Obie announced it has raised $25.5 million in a series B funding round led by Battery Ventures, with participation from Brick and Mortar VC, DivcoWest, and several real estate funds and investor...

Governments Race to Regulate AI Tools

May 22 2023 // Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT are complicating governments’ efforts to agree laws governing the use of the technology.Here are the latest steps...

Optimizing Agency Relationships: A Data-Driven Approach to Premium Growth

May 22 2023 // The reported demise of the independent insurance agency as a sales and distribution channel has been greatly exaggerated. Over the course of a decade or more of predictions about the growth of the direct-to-consumer...

TypTap Insurance President Talks About Insurtech’s First Profit, Future

May 19 2023 // When HCI Group’s TypTap Insurance launched in 2016, it created a buzz in the industry and some skepticism, due to the company’s plan to rely heavily on mapping technology and property data. This month,...

Davies Insurance Tech Group Names Morrissey COO

May 17 2023 // Nashville-based Davies Group, a rapidly growing professional services and technology firm serving the insurance industry, has named Jen Morrissey group chief operations officer. Morrissey was previously chief information...

Insurtech WeFox Raises $110 Million in Extension to 2022 Funding Round

May 17 2023 // Wefox Holding AG, an insurance-technology firm based in Berlin, raised $110 million to build a platform that will make its technology available to other insurers.JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Barclays Plc provided half the...

Low-Tech Cyber Attacks Took Advantage of Fixable Vulnerabilities in 2022: Coalition

May 16 2023 // Outdated technology, poor software maintenance, and the dreaded clicking of a malicious link were most to blame for cyber insurance claims experienced by policyholders in 2022, according to a new report from...

Washington Is Determined to Govern AI, but How?

May 15 2023 // U.S. lawmakers are grappling with what guardrails to put around burgeoning artificial intelligence, but months after ChatGPT got Washington’s attention, consensus is far from certain.Interviews with a U.S. senator,...

World’s Governments Race to Regulate AI Tools

May 12 2023 // Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT are complicating governments’ efforts to agree on laws governing the use of the technology.Here are the latest steps...

Hackers Aim to Find Flaws in AI

May 12 2023 // No sooner did ChatGPT get unleashed than hackers started “jailbreaking” the artificial intelligence chatbot – trying to override its safeguards so it could blurt out something unhinged or obscene.But now...

Insurtech Funding Up 38% Over Q4 2022: Gallagher Re

May 11 2023 // Insurtech funding increased nearly 38% from Q4 2022 to Q1 2023, from about $1 billion to about $1.4 billion, according to a new analysis released by Gallagher Re.The U.S. leads France and the UK as the nation funding the...

Legislation to Govern AI Takes Another Step in Europe

May 11 2023 // European lawmakers came a step closer to passing new rules regulating artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, following a crunch vote on Thursday where they agreed tougher draft legislation.The European...

Gallagher Re: US Leads Insurtech Investments, Funding Continues Healthy Climb

May 10 2023 // Insurtech funding increased nearly 38% from Q4 2022 to Q1 2023, from about $1 billion to about $1.4 billion, according to a new analysis released by Gallagher Re.The U.S. leads France and the UK as the nation funding the...

AI, Ransomware, Tech Burnout Biggest Takeaways from RIMS’ Riskworld

May 10 2023 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tvThe 2023 RIMS’ Riskworld conference took place last week in Atlanta, and on this episode of The Insuring Cyber Podcast, two guests shared the biggest takeaways from the conference this...

Register Now for the InsurTech Summit

May 8 2023 // Carrier Management’s upcoming InsurTech Summit isn’t showcasing trends. It’s highlighting how insurers and InsurTechs use evolving tech to win.This free, virtual event is a streamable exchange of...

AI Pioneer Says its Threat to World May Be ‘More Urgent’ Than Climate Change

May 8 2023 // Artificial intelligence could pose a “more urgent” threat to humanity than climate change, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton told Reuters in an interview on Friday.Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as one of the...

How AI Could Revolutionize Healthcare – and Risks to Consider

May 8 2023 // Not a day goes by that a new way to use artificial intelligence (AI) fails to make the daily headlines. AI-powered tools seem to be making their mark on every business sector, including the healthcare industry.AI...

New York Names InnSure to Handle Clean Tech Insurance Grants

May 8 2023 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the nonprofit InnSure will administer the state’s $6.5 million insurance innovation fund that includes grants to encourage the development of new insurance policies and...

German Insurtech wefox Launches Global Affinity Business

May 3 2023 // wefox, the Berlin-based insurtech, has launched a global affinity business, which increases its existing distribution channel and extends the ability of the company to deliver insurance solutions through partners.This core...