Wealthsimple, the Canadian robo adviser company controlled by Power Financial Corp., is gaining another behemoth shareholder as it slowly gears up for an initial public offering. Allianz X, the tech investment fund of Munich-based insurer and asset manager Allianz SE, …
MS Amlin announced the purchase of a strategic stake in Envelop Risk, a global specialist reinsurance managing general agent (MGA), which combines insurance expertise with artificial intelligence-driven cyber risk modeling. The investment sees MS Amlin take a minority strategic stake …
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 Lloyd’s Lab, which gives insurtech startups the opportunity to work with Lloyd’s …
Robots are getting more humanoid every day, but they still can’t be sued. So a Hong Kong tycoon is doing the next best thing. He’s going after the salesman who persuaded him to entrust a chunk of his fortune to …
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced new tools for software makers aimed at making technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain easier for businesses to use. Microsoft released the tools ahead of its software developer conference next week in Seattle. Once …
Cytora, the London-based provider of artificial intelligence-powered solutions for the commercial insurance industry, announced it has raised £25 million ($32.5 million) in new financing, which will be used to accelerate expansion of the company’s product suite as well as its …
The biggest tech companies want the public to know that they’re taking special care to ensure that their use of artificial intelligence to sift through mountains of data, analyze faces or build virtual assistants doesn’t spill over to the dark …
It sounds like it should have been impossible to miss, but it took more than a year for an industrial equipment company to discover $12,000 worth of doggie day spa charges on an employee’s expense reports. Level upon level of …
Aon has formed a strategic alliance with Zesty.ai, a San Francisco-based insurtech startup, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance insurers’ property underwriting. Zesty.ai’s technology provides access to more than 130 billion data points on buildings and their surroundings which …
Shift Technology has raised $60 million in new venture financing, money that will help grow the reach of its artificial intelligence and big data technology designed to help carriers detect fraud during the claims process. Plans call for using the …
