All the headlines from our Tech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 22 2021 // Waitlist for All Sponsorships and Exhibit Hall Space; Agenda Full; Price Increase June 26.NEW YORK, JUNE 21, 2021 – InsureTech Connect (ITC) has announced that its sales have been so robust for its October 2021 Vegas...
Jun 18 2021 // Akur8, the Paris-based insurtech firm that automates insurance pricing, has closed a Series B funding round of $30 million, bringing its total funding to $42 million.This latest funding round will accelerate Akur8’s...
Jun 16 2021 // Insurer USAA is buying Noblr, an insurtech digital insurer offering behavior-based auto insurance.USAA, a Texas-based insurer focused on members of the U.S. military and their families, said the acquisition will help make...
Jun 9 2021 // The head of Colonial Pipeline told U.S. senators on Tuesday that hackers who launched last month’s cyber attack against the company and disrupted fuel supplies to the U.S. Southeast were able to get into the system...
Jun 8 2021 // A group of 50 investors managing more than $4.5 trillion in assets is calling on companies involved in the development and use of facial recognition technology, such as Amazon and Facebook, to do so in an ethical way.The...
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 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 27 2021 // Matt Hewitt joins the leading insurance services provider as Corporate Development Officer.EL DORADO HILLS, Calif., May 27, 2021 – Patra, a leading provider of technology-enabled services for the insurance industry,...
May 26 2021 // The Alaska court system said it is taking steps aimed at avoiding future cyberattacks, such as upgrading software and “investing in technology that can better protect our systems from intrusion.”The court...
May 26 2021 // The use of 3D technology has been a topic of discussion in insurance for years, but for an industry that is historically slow to adopt technological change, its impact has not yet been as widely felt as originally thought....
May 26 2021 // Systems are still down a week after a ransomware attack disrupted the IT network of five hospitals in the New Zealand district of Waikato, and concerns remain that private patient information may have been exposed.Patients...
May 26 2021 // HSB, part of Munich Re. has launched HSB Precision Ag insurance, a suite of coverages for evolving farm data risks, technology and state-of-the-art equipment.Designed for large commercial enterprises and smaller family...
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 10 2021 // Tesla Inc. told a California regulator that it may not achieve full self-driving technology by the end of this year, a memo by the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) showed. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during an...
May 7 2021 // Hippo in Palo Alto, Calif. has added new leadership to its technology team led by Chief Technology Officer Ran Harpaz. The newly appointed technology leaders will be responsible for expanding and enhancing the delivery of...
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...