All the headlines from our Startups Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 20 2019 // AXA XL Insurance launched Cube, a risk innovation incubator, a six-week program designed to enable risk managers to work alongside AXA XL risk and innovation experts to develop innovative risk management solutions for...
Nov 18 2019 // Microsoft Corp. has hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether the use of facial recognition technology developed by an Israeli startup it funded complies with its ethics principles, the company...
Nov 15 2019 // Hartford InsurTech Hub, powered by Startupbootcamp, has announced its 2020 cohort of startups. The past two cohorts have consisted of ten startups, and with the help of the Hub’s partners, the accelerator program...
Nov 12 2019 // Zego has become the first ever U.K. insurtech to be awarded its own insurance license, which will enable it to build and sell its own products.While Zego will still work in tandem with its growing network of insurer...
Oct 25 2019 // Insurtech funding levels, reaching almost $4.4 billion in worldwide funding commitments through three quarters of the year, has already surpassed the 2018 full-year total, Willis Towers Watson announced Wednesday.According...
Oct 21 2019 // Like many people, entrepreneur and former Israeli tech journalist turned insurtech founder Liri Halperin never expected she would end up in the insurance business. But an insurance buying experience almost four years ago...
Oct 3 2019 // The Iowa-based Global Insurance Accelerator will nearly double its seed funding for insurtechs accepted into the program in 2020.Nicole Gunderson, managing director for the GIA, said the increase is a way for the GIA,...
Sep 19 2019 // Six insurance agencies from across the country have joined together to form a program specifically for investors and innovators behind technology innovations for insurance agencies and brokerages.The new entity, BrokerTech...
Sep 17 2019 // Emerging risks with little or no claims history can be notoriously difficult to underwrite—but many specialty lines companies are finding ways to put their toes in the water to insure these new risks, especially when...
Sep 16 2019 // Insurtech Zeguro has launched its platform designed to help small and midsize companies manage cyber threats in multiple ways.The San Francisco-based managing general agency describes itself as an “end-to-end cyber...
Sep 16 2019 // The surplus lines marketplace is often viewed as the insurer of last resort, the marketplace for bad risks with poor loss records. But particularly in a time of great economic growth like now — we’re also the...
Sep 6 2019 // Prudential Financial Inc. is set to buy online insurance startup Assurance IQ Inc for $2.35 billion, the latest in a series of moves by traditional insurers to up investment in technology and data crunching by buying...
Jul 23 2019 // Greenlight Re Innovations (GRI), a subsidiary of specialist property and casualty re/insurer Greenlight Capital Re Ltd., announced it has made a strategic investment in Cove Ltd., a New Zealand-based personal lines...
Jul 19 2019 // Hartford InsurTech Hub, powered by Startupbootcamp, has opened applications for the third year of its accelerator program.Insurance Technology (InsurTech) startups that have shown strong traction and are looking to connect...
Jul 8 2019 // European startup Dott has secured 30 million euros ($34 million) in a fundraising led by existing investors EQT and South Africa’s Naspers to launch an electric bike hiring business and roll out new generations of...
Jul 1 2019 // Aon plc has partnered with anti-poverty organization Oxfam and insurtech startup Etherisc to launch a blockchain-based platform that provides agriculture insurance for smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka.Nearly 200 Sri Lankan...
Jun 28 2019 // A federal jury in Texas has ruled that Huawei stole trade secrets from a Silicon Valley startup, but it didn’t award any damages.After a three-week trial, jurors in U.S. District Court in Sherman, Texas, determined...
May 9 2019 // Lloyd’s announced it is investing in Layr, a cloud-based commercial insurance platform for small businesses looking to purchase liability insurance.The investment follows Layr’s successful trial in the...
Apr 30 2019 // Hartford InsurTech Hub, powered by Startupbootcamp, hosted its second Demo Day at the Bushnell Performing Arts Center in Hartford, Conn., on April 26.The InsurTech Accelerator is the first component of Hartford InsurTech...
Apr 25 2019 // Pro Global Insurance Solutions, the London-based re/insurance consultant and service provider, announced it will acquire Vibe MGA Management Ltd. (VibeMM), an MGA incubator business.Pro is acquiring VibeMM from Vibe UK...