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TheGuarantors, a Real Estate Rental InsurTech, Pulls in $15M Series B
TheGuarantors, an InsurTech focused on the real estate rental industry, has pulled in $15 million for its Series B financing. Plans call for using the cash infusion to expand the company's platform ...
‘Sextortion’ Is Yet Another Emerging Cyber Risk for Businesses to Worry About: Beazley
A new form of online bribery is emerging where cyber criminals attempt to extort cryptocurrency by claiming to have potentially embarrassing evidence of people using adult websites on work computers, ...
Small and Midsize Businesses at Higher Risk of Cyber Attack, Chubb Warns
Small and midsize businesses are much more likely to experience cyber attacks than large companies. In fact, 62 percent of all cyber crime targets are small and midsize businesses. It costs, on ...
Beyond Fender-Benders: How Self-Driving Cars Are Killing Auto Insurance
Dan Peate, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur in Southern California, was thinking of buying a Tesla Model X a few years ago—until he called his insurance company and found out how much his ...
Being a Digital-First Carrier: 3 Key Components of Digital Transformation
The proliferation of technology usage within insurance is ironic. The industry historically labeled as a tech laggard now has more InsurTech available than insurance companies often know what to do ...
Allstate Buys iCracked, an On-Demand Repair Service for Smartphones and Tablets
The Allstate Corp. has acquired iCracked, a provider of on-site, on-demand repair services for smartphones and tablets in North America. Financial terms were not disclosed. Allstate said it plans to ...
Hartford InsurTech Hub Welcomes 2019 Startup Group
Hartford InsurTech Hub, backed by Startupbootcamp, has welcomed its 2019 cohort of startups to Hartford, Conn. The chosen startups cover a range of abilities, from property insurance claims to ...
Challenge Accepted: Sorting, Scaling and Applying Web Data for Insurance
Big data is back. Once the darling buzzword of innovation, big data's buzzword status had been eclipsed by a trendier focus on forces of "disruption" and a passion for everything "digital." The ...