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UK’s LV= is a big a believer in the role robo-advice plays in closing the advice gap. The insurer is shifting away from the car insurance market and into the life and...
Berlin-based accelerator Axel Springer Plug and Play (think: part Axel Springer media company, part Saeed Amidi‘s Plug and Play) signed an exclusive with Deutsche Bank, where the latter will help select and...
That’s the sound of Blockchain-powered P2P insurance platform Teambrella allowing users to demo its platform. Look here. Recall: that’s the startup that allows your teammates to have the final say on whether your claim...
UK-based roadtohealth received a $4 million investment from RGA. The startup offers a health score and coaching app called Quealth to help users live healthfully ever after.
Cloud software provider Vlocity, which has a sweet spot with Anthem and Principal Financial, announced it has raised $50 million in a round led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Salesforce...
“In the future, I’ll prescribe you an app. One of our whiteboards will drop in and explain what high blood pressure is. The phone will be Bluetoothed to the cap...
That’s the tagline of a new “fully online insurance company inspired by the power of optimism” called Sonnet. Except it isn’t ‘fully online’ since customers have to call to claim. Moving on, the Canadian...
AssetVault, which is slated to go live sometime this month, offers a mobile app to allow customers to catalog their physical and digital assets so that they can protect (through insurance and...
MA-based Internet Insurance Group (IIG) announced the launch of SmallBusinessQuote.com. As it sounds, minus the online fulfillment piece. Also, the company is planning to offer consumers the ability to quote and issue cyber liability insurance...
A Swedish startup in emerging mode looking to provide customers with a digital platform to know the value of their stuff, and handle their insurance claims.
Two-year-old Melbourne-based startup Curo Technologies (which is now called Billy) has received $1 million in funding from Australian private health insurer HCF. The startup employs sensors to ‘unobtrusively’ monitor the welfare of...
Generali chief executive Philippe Donnet confirmed his company doesn’t intend to merge with anybody, especially not Axa; putting a rumor to rest. Speaking of Axa, the French one announced it has partnered with Friendsurance, GetSafe and Knip, as the...
Insurify won the 2016 Best Insurance Website Award from The Web Marketing Association. See why here. Test for yourself here.
NYC-based Haven Life, the one backed by MassMutual, is now available in New York. Bottom Line: 8 states (including DC) of separation between the startup and the term ‘available nationwide’. But...
In Germany, FinanceFox isn’t allowed to use the term “insurance consultants” so it opted for “a consultant for insurance”. Recall: the startup operates in Switzerland, and Germany, and is heading to US soon.