German insurtech startup Kasko, a white-label option for instant insurance purchases on affiliate platforms, partnered with Barmenia insurance to launch Xtra Driver Protection coverage for guest drivers. Keyword: partnered.

Recall Belong Safe. A London-based on demand host insurance, which launched in February this year with paper from Hiscox to cater for ‘Airbnb style’ home-sharing insurance needs. The company closed its doors citing...

Philadelphia-based BenefitVault, a technology startup that provides a payment service for the insurance industry, laid off the majority of its staff last month. The startup once dreamed of becoming the PayPal of insurance and...

World’s largest Spanish insurance company Mapfre witnesses 30% of entries in its systems come from mobile and it isn’t about to lose momentum in the digital space. The insurer is looking to increase its digital...

Provider of enterprise compliance management software Convercent has raised $11 million in Series C funding led by Tola Capital. Compliance is sexy; at least that’s what some want you to...

Chinese search giant Baidu is checking another box in its mission to create an end-to-end vertical of auto products and services, as it continues its ambitious plan to develop autonomous...

“We understand this driverless policy to be the first of its kind in the UK – and possibly the world” – general manager at specialist insurer Adrian Flux Gerry Bucke on the launch...

Guy Carpenter is working with Pool Re and Cranfield University to develop a terrorism risk model. Recall: the leader in reinsurance recently announced a partnership with Symantec around a cyber aggregation model. Bottom...

The company earned top scores in all four categories: (1) functionality, (2) ease of use, (3) privacy and security and (4) quality and availability, in Keynote Q1 2016 Mobile Insurance Scorecard; a...

UK-based software provider Insly has raised €1 million in seed funding to grow in the London insurance market. Think: a cloud based agency management and CRM software for things such as tracking policies, billing,...

Anthemis and Exponential Ventures, the newly formed disruptive innovation and venture capital arm of MMI Holdings, have launched a global investment partnership that will invest in early stage financial wellness companies....

Massachusetts-based weather startup Understory, developer of roof sensors and hyper-local data networks, is expanding its platform to the Metropolitan Dallas, Texas area. The platform, which consists of patent-pending sensors networked together to feed...