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San Fran-based CakeHealth, which launched in 2010 to help consumers better manage and track their medical costs and insurance data, merged with Inbox Health, which is currently busy testing-slash-promoting its newest product Benefitly that aims to offer clarity...
Israeli semiautonomous software supplier Mobileye announced it would not renew its contract with Tesla once it runs out. Some tie the abrupt change of status to Mobileye’s recent partnership with BMW,...
Meet Boston-based Apliant, which launched last week by ex-Goji and ex-EverQuote employees with the help of Mass Mutual to offer agents a software solution that will allow them to “participate in new...
Knip partnered with Barmenia insurance to offer accident insurance in the name of Pokemon Insurance. Recall Russian Sberbank Life Insurance, which started offering gamers $800 worth of coverage, in exchange for some basic personal information like name and age.
French insurer Axa, which not so long ago announced its partnership with Trov in UK, is now announcing a partnership with Alibaba, aka the ‘not quite Amazon of China’, and Ant Financial. Picture...
“The best investors look for founders that have that sense of pragmatism or rootedness in reality, because once the pitch book is done and the money is in the bank,...
UK’s Anthemis Group has partnered with Hanwha Life to operate a $10 million fund.
RSA Canada is the latest to face change management. President and CEO Rowan Saunders is heading over to Canadian P&C insurer Economical Insurance, come November 1. Martin Thompson, who has been with RSA since...
The RI-based mutual insurer is offering field adjusters a new app. Think: IBM MobileFirst for iOS that offers real-time access to individual claims data and allows adjusters to process their work from anywhere. Bottom Line: the...
Michigan-based LifeSecure Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, which provides long term care insurance solutions felt it’s time for a new look. Before: After. Better....
“A positive example is however Knip” – MaxPool CEO Oliver Drewes is more impressed with Knip and less impressed with Friendsurance; suggesting the latter is about to change its business model....
Boston-based telematics startup TrueMotion launched an app called TrueMotion Family that looks to engage the whole family around safe driving. Scoring and ranking of drivers included.
Brexit insurance. An add-on to AIG’s directors and officers liability policy that will cover various costs associated with Brexit. Some suggest the title is misleading. Speaking of AIG, the company has posted three straight quarterly...
Sun Life, which recently announced a partnership with Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District, has now announced a partnership with Silicon Valley Plug and Play Insurtech Accelerator joining the good company of Munich Re,...
“New York should be a hub for AI just as it’s a hub for fashion and finance and media and advertising” – John Frankel, founding partner of ff Venture Capital, on...
