Mercedes just launched a pilot scheme in Munich called Croove . Think: a mobile app that allows vehicle owners to earn extra money by renting their cars to peers. Once the...

CA-based LeaseLock announced it has raised $1 million in a seed round led by AmFam Ventures . Founded in 2014, LeaseLock offers a lease default insurance product for rental property managers underwritten by...

Hublio, the emerging one from Ireland offering an insurance management app, has been accepted to The Birdhouse, a Belgium-based accelerator known to some as the “accelerator program for ambitious entrepreneurs”. This comes after...

AIG Singapore is looking to release a telematics smartphone app come 2017. Think: driving data coupled with rankings and a dash of gamification. Also think: you’ve seen it all before. Off on a...

“Cars are just getting more expensive to repair, due to the technology” – Missy Dundov, a State Farm spokeswoman. “Now we’re not just replacing a bumper for a fender-bender, we’re replacing...

A year after announcing its plans to establish a fund to invest in startups, IAG announced the official launch of a $75 million venture fund that will operate from within IAG...

Modern banking app N26, which raised $40 million this year, is facing criticism. An IT expert that goes by the name of Vincent Haupert successfully managed to hack the app and view customer...

Last week Capgemini released a paper termed “Top Ten Trends in Insurance 2017”. The paper references Allstate’s small business quoting platform as “hi-tech”; hi-tech is subjective at best The paper states that...

“The few who survived did not survive because of the funding but because they have a business model which they have validated and are passionate about. Funding is just an...

California-based IT services provider One announced it has picked up $20 million in a Series B round led by Axa Strategic Ventures with participation from MassMutual Ventures, bringing its total...

Israel’s first Insurtech conference took place today. The event was part of the Insurtech Startup Competition, hosted by JVP, AXA, and Deloitte Israel; to name three. Oscar and Lemonade came up. Makes you wonder...

“We’re now an independent company within the Alphabet umbrella” – Waymo CEO John Krafcik. The Gist: Alphabet-slash-Google is separating its self-driving car project into a new business called Waymo, as in ‘the new way forward...

Meet +Simple; a Parisian startup targeting small business insurance shoppers . Better yet, a unique digital broker targeting small business insurance shoppers. Keyword: unique. The one-year-old commercial digital broker, with $1 million...

Atlanta-based digital commercial broker UnBrokerage is up. Think: coverage assessment plus a quoting tool plus the ability to enter credit card payments online to process payment once policy has been bound. The...