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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...
A two-year-old Brazilian accelerator that is focused on innovation in insurance, Big Data, and Telecommunications, to name a few. Bottom Line: just opened its selection process. Speaking of accelerators, note the updated list of...
Founder and CTO at Coverfox Devendra Rane has invested an undisclosed sum in Mumbai-based content discovery platform Nearfox. Wondering about that ‘fox’ suffix.
5-month old Next Insurance, aka the one with $13 million in funding that looks to do what Insureon is doing only better, has integrated with Hiscox for a limited set of...
Insurance management app GetSafe secured its first corporate partner. Think: 1822direkt; an affiliate of German bank Frankfurter Sparkasse. Bottom Line: 1822direkt customers will now be able to digitally manage their insurance policies in one...
Automated investing solutions software Betterment has partnered with Uber to offer its 300,000 drivers traditional or Roth Individual Retirement accounts, according to their preferences.
