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Digi.me, which is keeping busy rethinking the data value exchange, has secured $6.1 million in a Series A funding round led by Swiss Re. Think: a platform for locally stored personal data...
Before. After. Off On a Tangent: Progressive and Hartford are frenemies.
AIG’s European arm has partnered with Ascot Underwriting to launch a joint venture called Azur Underwriting that will serve the ultra wealthy.
Croatia-based Amodo secured $500,000 in funding. Think: a platform that collects data from smartphones and different connected devices in order to build customer profiles that can clue in insurers on the risks and...
Boston-based online auto insurance broker Goji has raised ~$19 million bringing its total funding to date to $89.2 million. Here’s a benchmark of Team Zebra vs. Team Goji, as both operate in...
Meet Tapan Singhel; MD & CEO at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance. And here’s his take. Think: an insurance CEO that blogs. From the heart. It’s no wonder the company was recently awarded...
Zenefits just launched a cloud-based app on the Salesforce App Cloud that automatically verifies brokers’ licensing status and prevents their assignment to an account if they lack a valid insurance license from the...
Before. After. Open the bubbly.
LA-based ZendyHealth, which brings the Priceline’s model to healthcare, expanded to orthopedics. The site allows users to submit a diagnostic service request (think: CT scans, Botox injections) along with the price they’d...
“Swiss Re has never produced a single nail, but it became a very large and successful company because we knew how to share our knowledge and we knew how to...
Another insurer undergoing restructuring for the sake of cost cutting. This time think: Liberty Insurance. Ireland. The insurer is cutting 70 jobs primarily from the commercial and back office functions as “difficult...
Travelers, which traditionally focused on providing insurance to medium and large sized businesses in the UK through the independent broker channel, is now using the online channel to target small businesses...
Over at The Zebra, ‘on demand’ means within 24 hours. Think: the online car insurance comparison platform backed by Shark Tank star Mark Cuban launched ‘Ask an Agent’; a resource where you can ask questions...
The London-based insurance startup is one of five teams selected to the Allianz France Accelerator program. Think: automated digital agent, aka ‘chatbot’. If you’re wondering ‘what’s in a name’, the founders liked the...
The Italian insurer plans to use Fitbits and other devices in the name of ‘exercise your way to a discount or sit your way through a premium hike’. Not an easy...
