October 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 to the new Quarterly InsurTech Briefing published by the global …
October 24, 2019
Ping An Insurance wants to be valued more like a technology company. Its executives have yet to convince investors their planned $22 billion spend on everything from artificial intelligence to blockchain will work. While Ping An (Group) Co.’s Hong Kong-traded …
October 8, 2019
FRISS, the insurtech provider of AI-powered anti-fraud solutions for the P&C insurance industry, has extended its partnership with Munich Re to now support insurers in their fight against fraud. Following their successful cooperation in Latin America and Iberia, the partnership …
September 9, 2019
Root Insurance, which uses smartphone technology to gauge driver behavior and price policies, said it has raised $350 million in Series E funding. Root has now raised a total of $523 million in funding, with an additional $100 million in …
August 1, 2019
Lloyd’s welcomed 11 new teams of insurtech disruptors to join the re/insurance market’s innovation accelerator. More than 130 applications were received from across the world for the third cohort of the Lloyd’s Lab. The 11 teams were selected as part …
July 31, 2019
There’s been a barrage of insurtech products hitting the market for several years now, creating confusion for some agency owners trying to decipher what is relevant to them, how to implement these products and whether to wait for new agency …
July 30, 2019
Online insurance agency Hippo Insurance said it has secured a $100 million financing round that will help propel a broader U.S. expansion of its super-quick online homeowners insurance. Global technology investment firm Bond led the Series D financing, which also …
July 29, 2019
Insurtech investment worldwide continued at high levels during the second quarter of 2019, marking the fourth consecutive quarter during which total new funding commitments exceeded $1.2 billion, according to the new Quarterly InsurTech Briefing from Willis Towers Watson. The report …
July 26, 2019
African telecom firm Africell plans to spend part of a $100 million U.S. credit line on expanding its infrastructure and fintech services, its chief executive said on Friday. The 18-year-old company, which has 15 million subscribers across its four African …
July 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 managing general agent and Lloyd’s coverholder. The amount of …