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Mentor-Driven Global Insurance Accelerator Is Enjoying its Own Growth-Spurt
Mar 9 2017 // A three-year-old Des Moines, Iowa-based business startup accelerator focused solely on the global insurance industry has developed into a streamlined organization with more applicants, more investors and more mentors than...
Mentor-Driven Global Insurance Accelerator Is Enjoying its Own Growth-Spurt
Mar 6 2017 // A three-year-old Des Moines, Iowa-based business startup accelerator focused solely on the global insurance industry has developed into a streamlined organization with more applicants, more investors and more mentors than...
U.K. Tech Startups Weigh Moving HQs to Continent on Brexit Worries
Feb 14 2017 // British technology startups are beginning to stress out over Brexit. Initially confident their industry wouldn’t be harmed by Britain’s break from the European Union, U.K. tech entrepreneurs are now girding for...
Facebook Co-Founder Leads Financing for Online Health Insurance Startup
Feb 10 2017 // Facebook Inc. co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital Group has led a new financing round for a Singapore-based online health insurance service that values the startup at $100 million. Singaporean government...
New Venture Capital Firm Looking for Insurtech Startups
Feb 8 2017 // The insurance industry has a new venture capital firm looking to make early to growth-stage investments in innovative insurance technologies. David Miles, a 30-year insurance investment veteran and owner of the insurance...
Illinois Insurance Department Settles with Human Resources Startup, Zenefits
Feb 3 2017 // Illinois has become the 17th state to reach a settlement with a California-based human resources software startup for alleged insurance code violations. Illinois Department of Insurance investigators found the startup...
Nationwide Using Mobile-App Startup Sure to Sell Renters Insurance
Jan 20 2017 // On-demand insurance agency Sure has signed Nationwide as a partner in offering renters insurance via its real time mobile app. Using the Sure app (for iPhone and Android), consumers can now obtain a renters insurance...
Startup Next Insurance Partners with Markel on Insurance Fit for Personal Trainers
Jan 18 2017 // Online small business insurance agency Next Insurance has partnered with specialty insurer Markel Corp. to offer tailored coverage for personal trainers. Next Insurance allows personal trainers to buy a professional and...
Tech Firms Collecting Data: How Much Do Consumers Know or Care?
Jan 17 2017 // Nearly every technology startup wants the same thing: more data. But in the rush to collect all manner of information about customers, tensions are rising in Silicon Valley over whether such practices amount to a form of...
Security Weaknesses Found at Smartphone-Only, Fintech-Startup N26
Dec 29 2016 // German fintech company N26, which made its name mocking traditional banks, has found itself on the receiving end of criticism after a security researcher proved its smartphone apps exposed users to potential account...
Top 12 Insurance Trends and News Stories of 2016: Countdown
Dec 27 2016 // In the year 2016, as in past years, there were the familiar or continuing stories including reinsurers still wishing and hoping for a hardening market; property/casualty insurance carriers reporting financial results...
Startup Insurer Lemonade Is Going National; Files for Licenses Countrywide
Dec 22 2016 // Insurance startup Lemonade is eyeing a national expansion and has filed for licenses to operate in 46 states and the District of Columbia. The peer-to-peer insurer that is focused on renters and homeowners insurance is...
XL Catlin Invests $4M in Insurtech Microinsurance Startup, Stonestep
Dec 19 2016 // XL Catlin’s venture fund, XL Innovate, committed $4 million in first-round financing to Stonestep, a property/casualty insurtech startup looking to streamline how microinsurance is sold in emerging markets. The...
FinTech Startup, ‘Number26,’ Grows in Europe, Offering Banking, Insurance
Dec 6 2016 // Smartphone-only bank Number26 is now offering its services in 17 countries in the euro zone, expanding from a smaller core of European markets it entered a year ago, it said on Tuesday. The Berlin-based company is backed...
Insurtech to Become Part of Traditional Insurance Landscape: S&P Report
Nov 29 2016 // Insurtech has a complementary place in the traditional insurance world, despite remaining uncertainty in the industry about how it will function on a wide scale, Standard & Poor’s said in a new report. “We...
Insurtech Startups Attract Growing List of Traditional Insurer Partners
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...
Insurtech Startup Trov Launches in UK, Offering On-Demand Coverage
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...
Drone Makers Shift to Commercial Uses as Consumer Market Crashes
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...
Startup Auto Insurer Root Targets Good Drivers with Smartphones
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...
China’s Online Insurer ZhongAn Launches Fintech Incubator
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....
