In insurance, the equivalent of short-form entertainment is on-demand insurance - an idea not strong enough to justify a standalone service. And of course, Root is competing with Tesla - if it didn't know it, it knows it now.

Bits and beyond following recent happenings.

Targeting Gen X and millennials, B2Z's approach is different from the get-go following its analysis that SME identifies more as a personal line customer than a commercial line customer.

Like, many others, the startup's messaging incorporates elements of convenience, fairness, and goodness.

Movinx is located in Berlin and set up as an insurance intermediary and service provider. Partners aim to transform and innovate automotive and mobility insurance with a fully digital business model and focus on flexible and customer-centric products.

A few weeks after being the first to report that Liberty Mutual's digital D2C brand Certainly has expanded beyond renters insurance to offer auto and identity protection coverage, we now report another product expansion.

Palo Alto-based digital wealth management company Wealthfront has launched a new service called Autopilot that automates a client's savings plan.

Caura Drive brings car payment services under one roof.

Neurotrack announces partnership with Hannover Re US to offer insurers "Digital Brain Check-ups" for their policyholders.

The funding round marks the first equity investment in the Company by Tiger Global Management, T. Rowe Price Associates and Blackstone.

We're announcing a new research report titled The P&C Insurance Technology Guide that will define - not the future of insurance - but the present - by leveraging Coverager's Technology dataset to highlight key trends and solution providers.

The company has raised over $1.3 billion from investors to date and employs over 940 people.

Chris Ardron, currently the Product and Service Director, has assumed responsibility as Chief Executive on an interim basis.

The program is intended for employers to offer employees a mobility budget to choose an alternative means of transportation.