All the headlines from our Startups Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 24 2021 // Kettle, the San Francisco-based reinsurance startup that uses artificial intelligence to better protect people from the growing wildfire risks of climate change, announced it has been reinsuring homes during the 2021...
Nov 19 2021 // State Farm and Generali joined the $53 million financing round for Nexar, an artificial intelligence computer vision startup based in New York.The technology startup provides crowdsourced visual data that is contextualized...
Nov 4 2021 // Insurtech startup owl.co Labs Inc. raised $30 million in new venture capital. Many plans are in play to spend the cash infusion, including hiring, and accelerated growth plans for the company’s machine...
Oct 29 2021 // SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer, has announced a strategic partnership with Parameter Climate, a climate underwriting and distribution advisory firm.As part of the transaction,...
Oct 27 2021 // While global investment in insurtechs continues to rise, not all insurtechs are benefitting. Rather, much of the funding is focused on a relatively few startups.For example, in the second quarter, more than two-thirds of...
Oct 18 2021 // For three centuries, a handful of insurers have dominated the market from the City of London. The upstart intent on challenging them rents two floors just outside the district in an area known as Silicon Roundabout, where...
Oct 5 2021 // Ledger Investing, Inc., a technology-driven marketplace for matching insurance risk to capital markets, announced the closing of Nanorock Fund Ltd., an insurance linked security (ILS) fund focused primarily on investing in...
Oct 4 2021 // New Delhi-based insurtech start up SafeTree has raised $1 million in its seed funding round from angel investors Shams Ahmed Parvaz and Faiz Shams. The startup aims to use the capital infusion to expand its team,...
Sep 28 2021 // Australian insurance startup Cover Genius Pty Ltd. boosted its valuation to A$1 billion ($729 million), after raising A$100 million [$72.8 million] from investors including G Squared and Japanese insurer Sompo Holdings...
Sep 27 2021 // Mexican startup Super, which offers coverage for earthquake property damages, plans to expand into hurricane insurance and possibly raise a fresh funding round next year, according to chief executive officer and founder...
Sep 20 2021 // Self-driving startup Argo AI, automaker Ford Motor Co. and Walmart Inc. will together launch an autonomous vehicle delivery service in Miami, Austin, and Washington, D.C, the companies said on Wednesday [Sept. 15].Initial...
Aug 25 2021 // Startup Urbint, which promises its software can identify utility and telecommunications industry failures, damages, and worker injuries before they happen, has raised $60 million.Urbint CEO and founder Corey Capasso said...
Aug 23 2021 // Self-driving startups like Cruise and Pony.ai have begun testing their driverless cars in some parts of California in the past year, with an additional feature: Human operators.While there is no driver behind the wheel,...
Aug 2 2021 // BENGALURU – SoftBank Group-backed online insurance aggregator Policybazaar has filed for an initial public offering of up to 60.18 billion rupees ($809.36 million), joining a string of Indian startups that have tapped...
Jul 16 2021 // BENGALURU – Indian digital payments leader Paytm, which counts Ant Group and Softbank among its backers, is seeking regulatory approval to raise up to 166 billion rupees ($2.23 billion) in one of the biggest stock market...
Jul 2 2021 // Indian fintech startup Digit boosted its valuation to $3.5 billion in a fresh funding round, gaining capital for its effort to win insurance customers via mobile technology.The company is raising $200 million from Sequoia...
Jul 1 2021 // Insurance tech startup bolttech on Thursday said it raised $180 million in a funding round, led by private investment firm Activant Capital Group, that valued it at more than $1 billion.The New York and Singapore-based...
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...
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...