All the headlines from our Startups Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 28 2016 // Listening to Andrew Rear talk about insurers, you wouldn’t think he works for one that’s been around for 136 years.The 46-year-old head of Munich Re’s Digital Partners unit has said the industry is...
Nov 23 2016 // The on-demand economy, which uses smartphone technology to immediately fill consumer needs, has changed the way people order food, a car, or a place to stay. Now, technology startups are targeting the next business...
Nov 14 2016 // The fledgling drone industry is in the throes of change as weak consumer demand and falling prices drive startups to shift their focus to specialized business applications.3D Robotics – an early drone startup that...
Nov 7 2016 // Root officially debuted in the U.S. market on October 25. The fledgling auto insurer, just 18 months old, relies on telematics and a customer’s smartphone to deliver what it says will be significantly cheaper rates...
Nov 4 2016 // ZhongAn Online Property & Casualty Insurance Co. Ltd., China’s first online insurance company, has launched a fintech innovation company.The company, called Called ZhongAn Information and Technology Services Co....
Nov 1 2016 // Indio, a commercial insurance platform for brokers that aims to do what Sabre did for travel agents or Schwab did for wealth managers, said it has secured $2 million in seed financing.Venture capital firms NEA, Compound,...
Oct 31 2016 // Self-driving cars are getting closer by the day, but they won’t be coming from hacking phenomenon George Hotz.Hotz, the first person to jailbreak an iPhone and a vagabond of the world’s top tech companies, has...
Oct 25 2016 // Root officially debuted in the U.S. market on October 25. The fledgling auto insurer, just 18 months old, relies on telematics and a customer’s smartphone to deliver what it says will be significantly cheaper rates...
Oct 18 2016 // Liberty Mutual and USAA are among the backers behind of Snapsheet, a startup that is developing virtual auto claims technology and services that recently closed on $20 million in new financing.Snapsheet disclosed the...
Oct 17 2016 // You’ve probably heard. There is tremendous investor interest right now in technology-first insurance startups, or insurtech firms. The first InsureTech Connect Conference in Las Vegas in early October attracted an...
Oct 12 2016 // TheGuarantors, a New York based insurance tech startup founded in 2014, is seeking to make renting an apartment in New York easier for landlords, brokers and renters through its newly launched tech-enabled lease guarantee...
Oct 12 2016 // Canadian health benefit startup League Inc said on Wednesday it has teamed up with the insurance arm of backer Royal Bank of Canada as it expands into insurance, targeting the many small businesses offering no such...
Oct 11 2016 // Technology-inspired startup insurance broker Embroker, which bills itself as the first modern business insurance platform, has officially launched.Embroker is a commercial lines platform that empowers — hence the name,...
Oct 10 2016 // Lemonade, the new peer-to-peer insurance company that opened for business last month, has named John Peters as its chief underwriting officer.At Lemonade, Peters will be responsible for insurance product terms and...
Oct 10 2016 // Lemonade, the peer-to-peer insurtech startup that launched only a few weeks ago on Sept. 21 selling renters and homeowners insurance in New York, sold 142 policies and generated $14,300 in gross written premium in its...
Oct 7 2016 // Markel and EMC Insurance Companies have invested in the Global Insurance Accelerator, a business accelerator focused on developing innovative insurance-centric startups.The GIA launched in 2013 modeled on technology...
Oct 4 2016 // Bunker, a Hiscox and American Family-backed startup billing itself as the first contract-related insurance marketplace, has officially left startup mode and unveiled its first product. The target audience: independent...
Sep 13 2016 // Trov, an on-demand insurance startup, is revving up plans to enter the U.S. market in 2017, by way of a partnership with Munich Re.Munich Re, one of the world’s largets reinsurers, says it intends to provide...
Jul 25 2016 // Munich Re has partnered with New York City-based insurtech startup Slice Labs Inc. as Slice prepares to launch its first on-demand, per-use insurance product.Slice and Munich Re said they have agreed to an ongoing roll-out...
Jul 21 2016 // N26, a Berlin startup that offers financial services directly to consumers, said Thursday it’s received a German banking license that will let it offer a fuller range of products across Europe.The company, whose...