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Melody changed its name to Canopy Health Insurance. Melody Health. Before. Melody Health. Now. Canopy. Now. Bottom Line: raising $3.8 million in funding is no guarantee one has heard...
Hear it from Dylan Bourguignon, founder and CEO at so-sure, a London-based insurance model with a P2P component that provides better and up to 80% cheaper phone insurance. 1. How did you become...
Think: The Insurance Digital Revolution, an industry initiative brought to you by ACT (Agents Council for Technology) and IIABA (the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America), to name two, that looks...
Theranos halts new Zika test after FDA inspection concludes a company study didn’t include proper patient safeguards to ensure patients are treated safely and ethically during medical studies. And if that wasn’t enough,...
A newish startup born out of Stanford’s artificial intelligence lab, which looks to sell ‘the brains of the car’, and by ‘brains’ think sensors, LiDAR (Light detection and Ranging), Radar and deep learning software....
Someone, somewhere is saying TY to Adam Potter. Recall: on August 9th, Crain’s Business Insurance reported it is shutting down. That was then.
CarVi’s elevator pitch. ADAS stands for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and are anything from vibrating seat warnings when a driver is drifting out of lane to alcohol ignition interlock devices. Bottom Line: CarVi offers affordable...
The Chinese insurer valued at ~$8 billion thanks in part to its ~400 million customers, ZhongAn, is targeting an initial public offering within the next 12 to 18 months, either in...
Ohio-based VC-slash-accelerator Rev1 Ventures announced it has raised $22 million for a new fund focused on seed-stage startups. You care because Nationwide is an investor.
Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance, aka the one most people have not heard of till GIA came along, is backing an ag-tech accelerator with $100,000 in investment for the first year of the accelerator. Bottom...
Rental management software maker Cozy announced it has raised $8.5 million in Series B bringing its total funding to date to $18.37 million. Bottom Line: some 250,000 customers and one...
“The tier two’s are agile. They are very nimble in terms of their ability to sign off, and they are also willing to be progressive and try things. I think...
On September 1, Thai’s Claim Di will be launching a new service called Claim Di K4K, aka “knock for knock”. Say a collision occurred, if both drivers have the Claim Di app, they could shake their smartphones to...
Axa is closing its Farmington office allowing some employees to work remotely, some to work from its Charlotte office, and some (=”few”) to work no more. Speaking of Charlotte, para para paradise it isn’t, as...
A transformation project within Allstate, that looks to drive collaboration via stand-up meetings, where a developer can raise a block, in hopes that a manager can remove the blockage. Bottom Line: cult me...
