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Veruna Raises $6M With Carrier Backing; Startup Has Cloud-Based Agency Management Platform
InsurTech Veruna said it has raised $6 million in Series A financing, with plans to use the money to propel expanded use of its Salesforce-based agency management platform. The Boston-based startup ...
Insurance Evolution: Survival of the Fittest Using Design Thinking, MVPs and Decision Services
There's finally come a point of confluence between technology and business. Let's examine a few facts. Especially in the insurance industry, terms like transformation, innovation and disruption are ...
State Auto, Google Help Back AI Startup Flyreel’s New Financing Round
Flyreel, an artificial intelligence InsurTech startup focused on property insurance, recently raised $3.85 million in new financing from State Auto and several other investors. Gradient Ventures, ...
How to Choose Third-Party Data With Predictive Power to Boost Your Results
This is the sixth in a series of articles by Valen Analytics looking at the hurdles that insurers must overcome to effectively implement and gain value from data analytics programs. Making better ...
The Hanover Starts Offering Customer-Facing Digital Platform Using CoverWallet Tech
The Hanover Insurance Group is debuting a customer-facing digital platform designed to help independent agents acquire new business customers including freelancers, contractors and others. Dubbed ...
Uber Spent More than $1B on Driverless Cars So Far
Uber Technologies Inc. has spent more than $1 billion on autonomous vehicle technology to compete with giants such as Alphabet Inc., Apple Inc. and General Motors Co. The ride-hailing company ...
Lemonade’s New $300M Financing Will Propel Expanded Insurance Offerings, European Push
Tech-driven insurance startup Lemonade Inc has signed a $300 million funding round led by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp, the company said on Thursday. Other investors included insurer Allianz SE, ...
Zurich/CoverWallet Expand Small Biz Insurance Platform Partnership Into Switzerland
Zurich Insurance Group investment in CoverWallet is bearing fruit, with Zurich now offering CoverWallet's platform targeted to small and medium-sized business insurance customers in Switzerland. ...