InsurTech
Metromile Hires Capital One Vet to Guide National Digital Insurance Growth Efforts
Metromile, a digital insurance platform and pay-per-mile auto insurer, hired a Capital One marketing veteran to help shepherd national growth. Troy Dye, who was with the credit card giant for 20 ...
Short Seller Muddy Waters Accuses Lemonade of Neglecting Website Security Vulnerability
Lemonade co-founder Shai Wininger is denying accusations from an activist short seller that the insurer's website has a serious security vulnerability. Muddy Waters Capital claims in a May 13 open ...
Zywave Buys Up Modgic, Strengthening Its Workers Comp Software Offerings
Insurance technology provider Zywave has acquired Modgic, an Oregon-based provider of workers compensation and modification analysis software for the commercial insurance industry. Neither side ...
Amazon-Backed Digital Insurer in India Hopes to Raise $200M in New Financing
Acko General Insurance Ltd. is weighing a new funding round that could value the Indian online insurer at more than $1 billion, according to people familiar with matter. The Amazon.com Inc.-backed ...
Planck Pulls in $20M, Plans to Expand AI Data Platform Globally
Planck has attracted $20 million in additional venture capital cash. The InsurTech startup - centered around an AI-based data platform for commercial insurance - plans to use the investment to expand ...
Monitaur Raises Funding to Fuel Development of Machine Learning Assurance Tech
InsurTech startup Monitaur raised some crucial early-stage financing that will help expand hiring and its development of machine learning assurance technology. The oversubscribed $2.6 million funding ...
Chinese InsurTech Waterdrop Reportedly Raises $360M in NY IPO
Chinese online insurance technology firm Waterdrop Inc has raised $360 million by pricing its shares at $12 a piece in its New York initial public offering (IPO), according to two sources with direct ...
Shift Technology Raises $220M to Advance AI-Driven Insurance Technology
Shift Technology raised a whopping $220 million in new venture investment designed to advance its products and services that rely on artificial intelligence and big data technology to optimize ...