All the headlines from our InsurTech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 18 2020 // Insurtech was once the Wild West of the insurance industry. Many of Insurtech’s early players came from outside insurance after observing the industry struggle to deliver what was, in their view, a competitive...
May 15 2020 // Envelop Risk, the UK cyber underwriting and risk analytics business, announced a Series A investment of approximately $6 million.The funding round was led by artificial intelligence specialist investor Alpha Intelligence...
May 15 2020 // Generali’s P&C unit Global Corporate & Commercial (GC&C) and insurtech company Descartes Underwriting have formed a strategic partnership to develop parametric products designed to help close the growing...
May 14 2020 // London-based insurtech Zego has expanded its partnership with RSA Insurance to provide flexible cover for van fleets.Zego is offering usage-based policies to delivery, courier or trade van fleets of 20-200 vehicles in the...
May 11 2020 // Tokio Marine, the Tokyo-based property and casualty insurer, will use an artificial intelligence (AI) solution to process auto damage across its insurance operations in Japan, accelerating claims processing for...
May 8 2020 // Hub Security, a startup that offers military-grade cyber-security solutions for fintech, cloud, blockchain and data storage, announced it has closed a $5 million Series A funding round led by AXA Ventures, with...
May 8 2020 // Overall funding for insurtech investments decreased by 54% during the first quarter as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, compared to a record high in Q1 last year, according to a report from Willis Towers...
May 4 2020 // A group of Republican U.S. senators said Thursday they would introduce legislation to address consumer privacy concerns surrounding technology companies’ efforts to help build contact tracing apps to fight the new...
May 4 2020 // omni:us, the insurance-focused artificial intelligence (AI) solution business, has announced a partnership with Rokk3r, a global innovation technology and consulting company, to enable the AI company to enter the Latin...
May 1 2020 // Columbus, Ohio-based insurtech, Branch, has opened operations in Texas, the company’s fifth statewide expansion since launching in Ohio in August 2019.Branch says it is shaking up the insurance industry providing a...
Apr 29 2020 // Just a week shy of our Virtual Insurtech Summit, to air Wednesday, May 6th, I attended the virtual Demo Day of the Hartford Insurtech Hub on Tuesday, April 28th. As the host for our upcoming Summit, I’ve spent time...
Apr 28 2020 // Stores and workplaces eager to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus are equipping existing security cameras with artificial intelligence software that can track compliance with health guidelines including social...
Apr 27 2020 // Three Virginia Tech students are suing the university in federal court over how it handled allegations that they were involved in hazing.The lawsuits were filed last week by former Corps of Cadets members who say they were...
Apr 22 2020 // Babel Cover, a British insurtech start-up, is working with Maltese insurer Atlas and emerging technology firm Piprate to insure bicycles of competitive cyclists, triathletes and commuters of Malta.The intention of the...
Apr 22 2020 // The self-driving car was a dream deferred even before the Covid-19 outbreak brought the U.S. economy to a standstill. By early 2020, plans to launch robotaxi services had been pushed back or scaled down as excitement over...
Apr 20 2020 // Cowbell Cyber, a startup insurtech using artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cyber insurance for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs), has added social engineering coverage to its Cowbell Prime 100 cyber insurance...
Apr 15 2020 // Europe should not cede its sovereignty to Silicon Valley when it comes to using technology to help trace those at risk of coronavirus infection, the German developers of a smartphone app said on Tuesday.Apple and Google...
Apr 14 2020 // Senior executives increasingly will be targeted by cyber criminals looking for ways to steal money from large corporations, according to a report from cyber analytics provider CyberCube.Organized criminals and hackers are...
Apr 9 2020 // Vitech Systems Group has formed a strategic partnership with Innovation Underwriters (IU), a not-for-profit collaborative focused on promoting innovation within the insurance industry.Innovation Underwriters supports...
Apr 9 2020 // Lloyd’s has selected 12 insurtech startups to participate in its innovation accelerator, Lloyd’s Lab.The 12 teams were chosen out of more than 190 applications, received from across the world, for the fourth...