Technology & Analytics
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 ...
U.S. Drivers Think They’re Safe, but Carriers Know Otherwise Through Phone Usage Monitoring
The distracted driving report by Zendrive, a traffic-data startup, makes it clearer and clearer each year that millions of Americans can't stop themselves from talking, texting and live ...
New York Reigns as InsurTech Capital of the World—for Now
A new analysis puts New York City at the center of the InsurTech universe, leading other cities around the globe on one measure of supremacy and gaining ground on another. The analysis provided ...
Marsh Will Begin Rollout of Proof of Insurance Blockchain to U.S. Commercial Clients
Marsh said it will start rolling out its Proof of Insurance Blockchain platform to U.S. commercial clients. Originally launched as a proof of concept last April, Marsh's blockchain-driven Proof of ...
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 ...