Seattle-based lead-gen company QuoteWizard laid off about 30% (~50 employees) of its workforce this week. Recall: the company operates out of Seattle and Denver and has recently announced the launch of QuoteWizard...

InsureMy Ltd., a Calgary-based insurance brokerage, today announced a partnership with Trak Global Group, the UK based telematics provider, behind the multi award-winning Carrot Insurance brand. Working together, these two...

Octo Telematics, the largest worldwide provider of telematics services with more than 4.6 million connected users, has launched Octo Drone Box, the first telematics solution for business and leisure drones,...

Admiral announced the intro of firstcarquote insurance for the digital generation. The new insurance service offers new drivers a discount between 5% to 15% on their premium by making up for zero driver’s record...

After a year in business massUp founder Dominik Groenen is moving on. Recall, back in 2015 Groenen founded massUp, a white label portal to allow intermediaries to sell product insurance. He even got...

San Fran-based Indio emerged; announcing $2 million in seed funding round with participation from Hiscox. The startup looks to offer commercial brokers a platform to automate the quoting process yet doesn’t...

Austin-based Chiron Health, a telemedicine platform that allows physicians to connect with patients for routine appointments over video, announced it has raised $4.7 million in a seed round bringing its total...

AXA announced today that it had completed the sale of its wrap platform business ‘Elevate’ to Standard Life plc, and of its (non-platform) investment, pensions and direct protection (‘Sunlife’) businesses...

Berlin-based Relayr, which makes sensors that monitor industrial equipment to gather data or predict when machines will need maintenance, along with software and consulting services to help enterprise customers use...

ACD, a leading claims technology, decision support, advisory and service network aggregator to the property and casualty industry today announced that Anchor General Insurance Company has selected ACD’s AutoLink® material damage...

Sacramento-based portfolio analysis software Riskalyze picked up $20 million in a Series A round led by FTV Capital. Earlier this month, the five-year-old startup announced a five-year partnership with one of the...

UK insurance aggregator MoneySuperMarket.com named a new CEO to succeed retiring Peter Plumb. Think: Mark Lewis of John Lewis, which you all know and love because of this  awesome ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko1vVA107ac  ...

The life insurance enthusiasts at Haven Life sought to uncover how the 2016 presidential election has impacted America’s views on Halloween, Ryan Gosling movies and, of course, life insurance. NEW...

Sir Richard Branson announced the launch of Virgin Money Insurance in South Africa ; a web portal offering car, home, and funeral insurance underwritten by AIG. This isn’t the first time...