TypTap Insurance President Talks About InsurTech’s First Profit, Future
When HCI Group's TypTap Insurance launched in 2016, it created a buzz in the industry and some skepticism, due to the company's plan to rely heavily on mapping technology ...
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InsurTech Tackles Underserved Homeowners Market: Uninformed Buyers
Ian Gutterman doesn't think there's any underserved market of people who need cheap insurance.
"There's plenty of that available," says ...
Branch Insurance Sprouts From Roots of Asking Why
"Ask Why. It's how we learn new skills, grow as a team, and invent. Without asking 'why?' we'd never get to the deeper understanding needed to create ...
Birth of a Unicorn: How Branch’s Founders Turned Noes Into Yeses
Like most startups, the founders of unicorn Branch faced some early setbacks.
In a word, the process was "intense," according to Steve ...
Leading in an Industry He Once Shunned, wefox CEO Aims to Make Insurance Fast and Simple
When Julian Teicke was a teenager, the lavish events his insurance broker father attended with other successful agents struck him as out of proportion to their essential ...
The Secret Life of an InsurTech CEO Leading a $5B Cybersecurity MGA
In the early aughts, when Shardul Shah first met technology entrepreneur Joshua Motta as undergraduates at the University of Chicago, Motta seemed unusually reserved. "I found it challenging to meet ...
Tractable’s Next Move: AI Property Claims Assessment Before Damage Photos
Tractable, an InsurTech that revs up auto claims assessment processes using artificial intelligence that's trained on photos of dented cars, is now teaching machines to handle property disaster ...
Lawyer-Turned InsurTech Founder Looks Into Cloud to Settle Tesla Claims
While Tesla has designs on using the data it collects to price insurance policies, the founder of an InsurTech is using it for the other end of insurance transactions—to unravel the story of ...
ILS for Casualty: The Backstory of Ledger Investing
In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew's $15.5 billion in insured losses in 1992, insurance-linked securities emerged to distribute a portion of future property-catastrophe risk to investors. At the ...