CompScience, a provider of video analytics as a service and data-driven recommendations for workplace safety, closed a $6 million seed round.

It now covers 70 percent of the U.S. market. Investors in the platform include Working Capital Fund, Preface Ventures, Hustle Fund, Pathbreaker Ventures and others.

With existing video from work sites, the CompScience platform generates proprietary risk factors from more than 50 behavioral and environmental hazard detectors with a library of computer vision models. The AI-driven video analytics system does not identify individuals or retain personal information, according to a company press release.

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Ascend, an insurance payments platform, has been endorsed by The AC as its preferred payments and financing platform for its member network.

Ascend provides automated all-in-one financing, collections and payables. The AC is a network partner for insurance agencies. It hosts a network of more than 700 agencies and helps agents transition from captive to independent models.

This is one of many partnerships and alignments Ascend has been a part of this year, as it works to deepen its relationships with other InsurTechs, MGAs, AMS and carriers, according to a company press release.

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Origami Risk LLC, a risk, safety and insurance software-as-a-service technology firm, and CLARA Analytics, a provider of artificial intelligence technology for commercial insurance claims optimization, have formed a strategic partnership to make CLARA’s claims services available to insurers, managing general agents and self-insured pools using Origami’s multi-tenant SaaS property/casualty platform.

CLARA’s AI-driven tools and resources for insurance companies, MGAs, and self-insurers include analytic solutions to assess commercial claims, provide litigation support, and identify medical providers by specialty and geographical location. The AI resources are set to complement Origami’s suite of claims capabilities currently accessible on its Core Solutions platform.

The aim of the partnership is for insurers, MGAs, risk pools and self-insured organizations to be able to leverage Origami’s automation capabilities along with CLARA’s AI-driven claims optimization functionality to enhance decision-making across their casualty claim portfolio, including assigning appropriate adjusters and resolving claims quickly, according to a company press release.

Sources: CompScience, Ascend, Origami Risk