Technology/Science
A Look at What InsurTech Investors Should Embrace and Leave Behind
Which technology should InsurTech investors move away from, and what should they embrace instead? These are typical questions investors in the space (and others) must ask themselves over time, in ...
Waymo Driverless Taxi Service Relaunching, Expanding in Phoenix
Waymo on Thursday will relaunch and expand its fully automated, robo-taxi ride hailing service in Phoenix, rebooting its effort to transform years of autonomous vehicle research into a ...
Executives On The Move at AXIS, Buckle and Guy Carpenter
AXIS Insurance hired four underwriters for its U.S. Management Liability team. Buckle, a tech-enabled financial services company, has brought on two veteran insurance executives in leadership roles. ...
Bold Penguin Acquires RiskGenius in Commercial Insurance Tech Deal
Bold Penguin has acquired RiskGenius in an M&A deal that the commercial insurance InsurTechs said will help grow their reach more than they have been able to thus far on their own. Bold Penguin, ...
An InsurTech CEO’s Take on Ransomware Attacks
It almost goes without saying at this point: Ransomware attacks are on the rise. Ransomware attacks grew by nearly 50 percent in the 2020 second quarter along compared to the first three months of ...
The Latest Launches From Allstate and LexisNexis
Allstate now offers commercial auto coverage to Lift in California, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio and West Virginia. A division of LexisNexis has launched an identity access ...
Next Insurance Nails Down $250M Financing Round; $631M Pulled in to Date
Next Insurance secured another $250 million in financing designed to fuel continued national expansion of its digital small business insurance offerings. CapitalG, Alphabet/Google's independent ...
EasySend Raises $16M for ‘No Code’ Digitization Platform
InsurTech EasySend has raised $16 million, and the startup will use the money to fuel a global expansion of its AI-based platform designed to help insurers and others digitize their processes without ...