Content from Susanne Sclafane
Humans or Machines: InsurTech Says Startups Want Both for Insurance Buys
Building on referrals from startup funding specialists like SVB Financial Group and Y Combinator, InsurTech startup Vouch has attracted thousands of startups seeking business coverages ranging from ...
Continuing to Build: Construction-Focused InsurTech Shepherd
Armed with $6.2 million in seed funding and a technology platform that simplifies the insurance submission process for construction brokers and middle-market commercial contractor clients, InsurTech ...
Eyes in the Sky and Beyond: Why Geospatial Information Matters to Insurers
When Mike Fitzgerald, the principal insurance analyst for CB Insights, talks about geospatial technology and its applications in property/casualty insurance, he finds it challenging to restrain his ...
High and Rising: Cloud to Street’s Research on Flood Exposure
The title on the cover of the August 2021 edition of Nature magazine—"High and Rising: Satellite images reveal an increasing number of people and places exposed to floods"—gives a sense of what ...
Why Swiss Re Cares About GIS
"We believe in climate change. We want to take affirmative action…We want to close the protection gap and make the world more resilient. We believe in that—and we also want to take action in ...
Seeing Through Clouds: Why Now Is the Time for Geospatial Technology in Insurance
The prospect of property/casualty insurers and reinsurers adding information from geospatial imagery to their toolkits for underwriting, product development and claims handling isn't an entirely new ...
A Top-Down View of Insurance Risk: Understanding the Geospatial Insurance Consortium
One of the best-kept secrets about the property/casualty insurance industry is a member-centric organization that manages the largest aerial imagery program in the world. That's right. The world's ...An InsurTech Founder Moves On
When Chad Nitschke officially left his role as CEO of the InsurTech he founded, Bunker, in January of this year, he didn't know yet that he'd become the president of Vouch Specialty, the division of ...