Technology & Analytics
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 ...
Facebook ‘Unintentionally Uploaded’ Email Contacts of Up to 1.5M Users
Facebook Inc. said it may have "unintentionally uploaded" email contacts of 1.5 million new users since May 2016, in what seems to be the latest privacy-related issue faced by the social media ...
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 ...
Allstate, Starr Companies Join $18M Financing for Amenity Analytics
Hank Greenberg's Starr Companies and Allstate contributed to a new $18 million financing round for Amenity Analytics, a startup developing cloud-based analytics designed to help businesses analyze ...
Lloyd’s Syndicate Ascot Underwrites New Global Crop Insurance Platform
Farmers can now for the first time insure their produce against price volatility as easily as insuring their homes, with a global platform based on hundreds of niche commodity indexes, underwritten ...
Embroker Eyes Expansion in Multiple Ways After Securing $28M Series B Round
Embroker has raised $28 million in new venture financing designed to help the digital insurance company and brokerage startup expand. Plans call for using the Series B funding round, in part, to ...