Last month, I suggested that London-based AssetVault should pivot.   It did.   Before: The startup’s value proposition was to allow customers to catalogue their physical and digital assets in...

Plymouth Rock announced the launch of its safe driving rewards program, named Road Rewards. The Road Rewards concept is simple: safe drivers earn rewards.   Using the Road Rewards app,...

Azlo, a digital banking platform for freelancers and self-employed workers, who make up the growing “gig economy,” and U.S. based small businesses more broadly, has announced the public availability of...

Roostify, a leading digital lending platform provider, today announced the completion of a $25 million Series B round of financing. The round included new investments from Cota Capital, Point72 Ventures,...

Guevara, the London-based P2P car insurance provider that was shut down late last year, after a failed attempt to become a digital insurer, is working on something new.   Ol’ Guevara:  ...

Santa Monica-based DroneBase announced it has raised $12 million in Series B round bringing its total funding to date to ~$19M. The round was led by Union Square Ventures (USV) and Upfront...

  Columbus-based SafeChain announced that it has raised $3M in funding led by NCT Ventures, with participation from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Aspect Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Pete Kight...

Boston-based Corvus has updated its landing page to something a little more revealing :     The insurance agency, founded by Philip Edmundson, is on a mission to create a “safer, more...

The Institutes RiskBlock™ Alliance announced today that 18 companies have joined the risk management and insurance industry’s first enterprise-level blockchain consortium. The RiskBlock Alliance seeks to leverage the blockchain to lower industry...

Remember Kabzy?   It was an Irish startup led by Michael Flanagan that provided a remote vehicle monitoring device to analyze driver behavior, reconstruct accidents and disable a vehicle if stolen.   This...

Insurance software startup Zipari highlighted the leadership of Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc., New Jersey’s largest and oldest health insurer, in listening to members and delivering increasingly personalized journeys to each individual.  ...

Jack is all about the freelancers, designers, developers, illustrators and web-pros that haven’t been given the insurance answer they deserve. That’s the essence of Jack, the trading name of Ashley Baxter...

Outdoorsy, a P2P marketplace for RV owners to connect with campers, announced it has raised $25M in a Series B round led by Aviva Ventures and Altos Ventures . The company...

Aviva has introduced automated bulk transfers using the Origo Options Bulk Transfers service to quickly and securely transfer schemes with hundreds of members.   “By providing an automated service for...