All the headlines from our InsurTech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 10 2021 // Insurer Nationwide has invested in an early-stage funding round for Certificial, an insurtech with a platform that issues real-time certificates of insurance and simplifies compliance management.Certificial’s $5.8...
Jun 8 2021 // Computer scientist Lynne Parker made breakthroughs in getting robots to work together so they could perform difficult missions, like cleaning up after a nuclear disaster, waxing floors or pulling barnacles off a ship.Her...
Jun 7 2021 // ELEMENT, the Berlin-based white-label provider of digital insurance solutions, has raised €16 million (US$19.5 million), in additional investment from existing and new investors.The additional capital will be used to...
Jun 4 2021 // Canadian fintech company Ratehub Inc. has launched a property/casualty (P/C) brokerage called RH Insurance.Toronto-based Ratehub, which operates the financial product comparison site Ratehub.ca, said the launch brings the...
Jun 4 2021 // The winners of the sixth annual Innovation in Insurance Awards have been announced by Efma and Accenture, which jointly established the awards in 2016 to recognize technology innovation.At a virtual ceremony, Generali was...
Jun 1 2021 // BERLIN – Digital insurance startup Wefox said on Tuesday it had raised $650 million from investors, in what it called a record-breaking round for a so-called insurtech company that valued the business at $3 billion.The...
May 28 2021 // K2 Placements and Wealth Advisor Growth Network (WAGN) have partnered on an insurtech platform for wealth managers buying business insurance to protect their firms.The new platform, Advisor Insurance, was designed to...
May 26 2021 // Masked, desk-bound and unable to recognize their colleagues in an elevator, people are starting to return to offices in cities around the world where the pandemic is receding. Many will find their offices transformed,...
May 25 2021 // Swedish tech start-up Haidrun has launched an enterprise blockchain platform targeted at insurers and reinsurers.Haidrun’s private blockchain platform eliminates suspicious and duplicate transactions by securely and...
May 25 2021 // Insurance agency technology firm Vertafore has released a product it says puts the power of data and analytics into the hands of independent agencies.The new offering, MarketTrends, helps agencies identify coverage trends,...
May 20 2021 // Home-coverage startup Kin Insurance is in talks to go public via Omnichannel Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company led by recurring “Shark Tank” guest judge Matt Higgins, according to people...
May 12 2021 // Acko General Insurance Ltd. is weighing a new funding round that could value the Indian online insurer at more than $1 billion, according to people familiar with matter.The Amazon.com Inc.-backed startup is looking to...
May 11 2021 // If the coronavirus pandemic produced its own brand of anxiety for American workers trying to stay healthy while balancing job and family demands, the coming return to “normal” will pose a new set of...
May 11 2021 // Although COVID-19 forced many insurers to seek out innovative solutions, most companies still have room for improvement, according to rating agency AM Best.In a recent analysis of innovation assessment scores, which the...
May 8 2021 // New Innovations Enable Rapid Assessments of Potential Losses Before, During, and After an EventNewark, Calif., May 6, 2021 – RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk modeling and solutions company, announced new...
May 7 2021 // Chinese online insurance technology firm Waterdrop Inc. has raised $360 million by pricing its shares at $12 a piece in its New York initial public offering (IPO), according to two sources with direct knowledge of the...
May 4 2021 // Stock prices of 18 U.S. insurtechs that went public in the last decade soared as a group in 2020. But so far in 2021, large non-insurance technology companies and traditional insurance stocks both outperformed the...
May 3 2021 // HONG KONG — Chinese online insurance technology firm Waterdrop Inc. aims to raise up to $360 million in an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, company filings show.Waterdrop, which is backed by...
Apr 30 2021 // BEIJING — Chinese financial watchdogs on Thursday summoned 13 internet platforms engaged in finance business, including heavyweights Tencent and ByteDance, to order them to strengthen compliance with regulations, the...
Apr 28 2021 // Global investment in the insurtech sector reached a new quarterly high of US$2.55 billion during the first quarter of 2021.The number of mega-rounds reached eight, more than any other three-month period, according to the...