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Acculitx – Comprehensive Driver Scoring and Risk Assessment
Ace partners with Vivo, a Brazilian Telecom Company
Active.Radar by Ibshurance
Active.Radar brings together insurers, brokers and enterprise clients through a unified and highly customisable collaborative workflow hub that automates, manages and execute...
Adlib – Automated data capture
Adlib is tackling one of the most vexing questions facing aspiring digital insurers today. Specifically, how to make sense of terabytes of unstructured data spewing out from ...
Admiral Group partners with MHR Analytics
Admiral Group has partnered with MHR Analytics to improve its underwriting capabilities through better data management. The partnership aims to co-ordinate Admiral’s internat...
Aegon Life focuses on D2C digital distribution
Aegon Life, a joint venture between global insurer Aegon and Bennett Coleman & Co of India, is diminishing the role the agency and Bancassurance channels to focus exclusi...
Aflac Corporate Ventures
Supplemental insurance provider Aflac has announced the launch of Aflac Corporate Ventures, which will raise $100 million by 2020 to invest in early-stage companies developin...
Aflac Partners with VUE to consolidate distribution process
Aflac, a leading provider of supplemental insurance in the US (covers risks that major medical insurance doesn’t cover) has deployed VUE’s distribution management suite...
Ageas Financial Needs Analysis tool, Hong Kong
AIA and Citi reinforce partnership with digital insurance solution
In Malaysia, Citi and AIA have collaborated to launch an end-to-end digital channel that allows Citi customers to purchase AIA’s suite of insurance products and solutio...
AIA Interactive Digital Platform
AIA Singapore introduces AIA Vitality
AIG Asia-Pacific distribution focused policy fulfilment platform
AIG pumps up digital at asset-management unit
In Q2 2017, AIG’s Valic, its digital services unit reached US$99.2bn from US$95.2bn in assets under management at the start of the year. Although AIG has invested plent...
AIG to snap up life specialist Ellipse from Munich Re
AIG is acquiring Ellipse, a group life insurer previously run by Munich Re. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and will be closed in Q1 2019.
Launched...
Airsurety – Instant travel life insurance
Airsurety is a New York based startup focusing on accidental deaths that take place during air travel and offers affordable, instant and easy to purchase term life insurance ...
Alipay free health insurance
In a bid to increase its market share in China’s burgeoning personal insurance industry, Alipay has launched a reward points based free health insurance service in collaborat...
Allianz BCG launch an app for expectant Chinese mothers
Allianz builds digital wealth management with Moneyfarm
With an aim of deepening its digital wealth management capabilities, Allianz has become the largest minority shareholder of Moneyfarm, a digital wealth manager. The partnersh...
Allianz uses Oracle ODM solution for Customer Insight
Allianz Ventures
Based in Munich, Allianz Corporate Ventures is the strategic venture arm of Allianz, which supports startups focusing on ideation, growth and success by leveraging the expert...
Allianz’s captive insurance blockchain prototype
Allianz Global Corporate & Speciality (AGCS) division has developed a blockchain prototype for captive insurance policies as blockchain advisory service provider, digital...
Allstate has developed a series of games and videos targeted at teenage drivers
Allstate Rewards, a new program to promote safe driving
Allstate Rolls Out New Mobile Drive-in Inspection Center
Allstate uses telematics to offer discounts to drivers
Amazon Alexa and Echo – Embodiment of the go to AI
Alexa is Amazon’s pioneering virtual assistant that powers Amazon’s Echo and other voice recognition devices. The current functionality allows user to ask simple questi...
American Family Insurance Promotes Use of Smart Home Technology
Amodo and AIG gamify driving
AIG has entered into a partnership with Amodo, a Croatian InsurTech startup to launch a search for ‘Singapore’s best drivers’ with AIG on the Go, ...
Annexus Ventures
Annexus Ventures is the venture capital arm of Annexus Retirement Solutions, focused on making early investments in InsurTech, FinTech and software startups. It offers a weal...
ANZ, IBM and Suncorp Develop a Blockchain Insurance Solution in New Zealand
ANZ, IBM, and Suncorp New Zealand have developed a blockchain based solution designed to reconcile transactions between brokers and insurers.
This particular distribut...
Aon and Zesty.ai Partner to Enhance Property Underwriting with AI Data
Aon and Zesty.ai together have entered into a strategic alliance to leverage artificial intelligence to upgrade Aon’s underwriting capabilities.
According to Aon, Zest...
Assurance – Proposal visualization platform
Assurance is a US based company that helps brokers and agents sort and identify the best life insurance policy for each client’s needs by visualizing different guarante...
Assurant Invests in Mojio to Explore Digital Protection and Support Solutions for Vehicle Owners and Partners
Assurant, Inc is partnering with Mojo, a technology platform and SaaS provider for connected cars to explore digital protection and support solutions for vehicle owners and a...
Avinew, the InsurTech Company for the Age of Autonomous Vehicles, Raises $5 Million in Seed Funding Led by Crosscut
Avinew a Calif.based Insurtech startup specializing in insuring autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles has announced the raising of $5M in seed funding.
Avinew is des...
Aviva – New Alexa skill
Aviva has become the first UK insurer to launch an Alexa Skill on Amazon’s Echo. Specifically, the Aviva assistant gives users voice-controlled access to a glossary of over 3...
AXA – achieving digital transformation objectives through Fast IT
The insurance industry, as a heavily regulated and complex field, has proven to be particularly resistant to change. Additionally, offline distribution and outdated IT system...
AXA accelerates payer-to-partner strategy with acquisition of Maestro Health
AXA has acquired Maestro Health, a Chicago-based US health benefit administration digital company for a total consideration of US$155m. It will operate as a 1...
AXA Invests in DabaDoc
In Africa, AXA has invested an undisclosed sum in a Morrocan healthtech platform called Dabadoc. The investment will help Dabadoc to enhance its footprint in its existing geo...
AXA signs multi-year agreement with Oscar Health
Oscar has entered into a multi-year quota-share reinsurance transaction with AXA’s International Employee Benefits (IEB) division. The partnership comes...
AXA, Alibaba and Ant Financial – New ecosystem
AXA, Alibaba and Ant Financial Services have agreed a global partnership to jointly explore opportunities to distribute AXA’s products via Alibaba’s global ecommerce ecosyste...
AXA’s Connected Home Based Insurance Offering
AXA’s Health Keeper Platform
Axieme – Peer-to-peer insurance in Italy
Peer-to-peer (P2P) insurance is a popular business model right now within digital insurance. From Lemonade – the carrier, to Friendsurance – the broker and Tongju...
Back Me Up – App-based and on-demand
Back Me Up is a subsidiary of Ageas Insurance, providing usage based property insurance for millennials, irrespective of time and place.
Essentially, the core differen...
Bajaj Allianz launches first cyber insurance cover
Bajaj Allianz has launched first of its kind cyber crime insurance for individuals called Individual Cyber Safe policy. The policy is positioned for towards those cy...
Baobei – B2B inurtech provider from China
Baobei is a B2B inurtech provider that equips traditional brokers and insurance startups with quote generation, fulfillment and transaction capabilities. With more and more o...
Baron Telematics Weather – A preventive tool to reduce claims
Baron is a weather intelligence solution provider, which has taken telem...
Bidu – The Brazilian online aggregator simplifying the process of buying insurance
Bidu is a Brazilian insurance aggregator that is combining the convenience of online research with the reassurance of an offline consultation. Launched in 2011, Bidu has esta...
BigIns – Tailored health insurance in China
BigIns is a Shanghai based broker that is targeting the health and life segment with tailored policies distribut...
BIMA distributes microinsurance through mobile operators
Blocksure Goes Live with Covéa Insurance and Commercial & General
Blocksure is a London-based startup which has developed a blockchain based admin system that can work alongside or replace insurers’ legacy systems and displaces the ma...
BMS Funding announce integration with Claim Technology, introducing a revolutionary AI claims platform for digital self-serve
BMS Funding has partnered with Claims Technology to provide Claims-as-a-Service. The partnership will launch a fully digital, “touchless” personnel injury claims por...
BNP Paribas and Amodo partnership explores shareable economy insurance
BNP Paribas and Amodo are continuing their ongoing partnership to evolve traditional insurance products from pure coverage to preventative, customer-oriented,...
BNP Paribas’ Internet-of-Things based Home Insurance Offering
Bought By Many launches travel insurance product
In Europe, Bought By Many has launched an Urgent Medical Travel Insurance policy specifically tailored for people suffering from serious health issues.
Brolly – An AI driven Insurance Advisory Application
Bupa strikes digital health partnership with HealthTap
Bupa has entered into a partnership with US based HealthTap, which styles itself as a ‘healthcare operating system’ powering the largest network of interactiv...
Canary’s Smart Home Solution
Car2Go car sharing and insurance
Car2Go is a German car rental company which is a subsidiary of Daimler AG providing carsharing services in urban areas in Europe, North America, ...
Care Bridge International Announces Its Actuarial Endorsement
Care Bridge International has announced that it has received actuarial endorsement for accuracy in projecting the medical portion of workers’ compensation claims. The ...
Carpool – Thailand’s first P2P insurance broker
Carpool is Thailand’s first P2P insurance broker. Like many startups, CarPool has set ambitious growth plans, targeting $3m USD in gross written premiums during its first yea...
Cathay Century’s My MobiCare App for its P&C policyholders, Taiwan
Chain B – Blockchain enabled Insurance in China
Chain B is a Chinese blockchain startup that is the first blockchain startup in China to target the hyper-competitive insurance industry.
Chain B was founded in 2016 a...
Chaojiyuanzhuo – Chinese P2P insurer
Chaojiyuanzhou is a Chinese P2P insurer that provides a community insurance platform for flight delay insurance, home insurance and deductible cover for property insurance.
China Life – Partnering with on-demand startups in China
The on-demand economy has not gone unnoticed by China Life and like other established insurers, it is keen to associate itself with winners in this space. In this case, throu...
Chisel Wins Gold at Zurich Innovation World Championship
Chisel AI is a North American insurtech specializing in text-based big data analysis that allows commercial insurers, reinsurers and brokers to extract, identify and classify...
Chongcheng Technology Mobile pet health insurance platform wins strategic funding
Chongcheng Technology, Hangzhou-based pet insurance operator has several million rmb in strategic funding from Hangzhou-based pet product technology developer Shunchong. The ...
Chubb and Grab partner to provide in-app insurance solutions
Chubb, one of the largest P&C insurance operators has entered into a partnership with Grab, an on-demand transportation and FinTech platform in Southeast ...
Chubb Boosts Cyber Risk Underwriting with CyberCube Analytics Software
Chubb is partnering with a San-Francisco based cyber risk analytics vendor called CyberCube to boost its Cyber Risk Underwriting.
Chubb reveals new cybersecurity app for commercial clients
To protect US and Canadian commercial enterprises during cyber breach, Chubb launched a new Cyber Alert mobile application designed to give customers rapid incident response ...
Cigna uses Big Data analytics for business decisions, Indonesia
Cisco, Apple, Aon, Allianz introduce a first in cyber risk management
Allianz, Cisco, Apple and Aon have together launched a cyber risk management solution for organizations to better manage and protect themselves from cyber risk associated wit...
Claim Di App in Thailand to speed up car insurance claims
Claim Di is a mobile application that enables car owners in Thailand to communicate directly with their insurance company. In the case of a car accident, drivers can not only...
Click2Sure re-imagines insurance distribution
Click2Sure is a South African based B2B2C platform that distributes specialised annex insurance (protection insurance as an add-on or bundled into a purchase) at point of sal...
Clover – Upending Health Insurance
CNA applies big data technology to analyse unstructured data
CNinsure CNpad – a mobile sales support application
Co-op Insurance Facebook chatbot
Co-op Insurance is a UK-based general insurer operating within the motor and home segments. Recently, it launched the UK’s first ever car insurance chatbot that allows ...
Cognizant GeoLocus – Telematics and Usage Based Insurance, USA
Coverfox’s Quote Level Personalisation
Coverfox, India’s fastest growing online insurance aggregator, has struck a new partnetrship with Vizury, a front end development agency, to offer ‘Quote Level Personal...
CRO – Electric bike insurance
CRO is a Shanghai based InsurTech focusing on niche property insurance risks and specifically, electric bike insurance. There are over 400 million active electric motor bikes...
CVS buys Aetna in deal that could transform healthcare
CVS Health Corp, a major drugstore across the US is merging with Aetna for a total US$69bn in a bid to marry low-cost medical services in pharmacies with an e...
CXA – Asia’s first insurance and wellness marketplace
Datong Broker
Datong insurance broker, one of China’s most successful insurance intermediaries, with a service network covering over 20 Chinese provinces has jointly launched a new agent a...
DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance builds a distribution channel for rural customers
Diabetes proliferation and prevention in developing countries.
Most people with diabetes in developed countries are above the age of retirement. However, in developing countries and especially those in which there has been major changes ...
Digital Risks – Shaking up business insurance
Digital Risks is a rareity amongst InsurTechs as it focuses solely on the needs of digital businesses. Specifically, Digital Risks offers coverage against the rising threat o...
Direct Line integrates tool for claims transformation
Dnurse Insulin Dosage Monitor; Insulink.
Worldwide, medical devices that cater for diabetics have improved considerably. However, insulin pens still require users to go through several steps and menus to record dosa...
Dnurse Technologies Overview
Although chronic disease management has always been a key principle of preventative healthcare, the ability to integrate hardware and software is still a rare feat amongst Me...
Driverless car crash will challenge US liability laws
With the rise of autonomous vehicles and telematics technology, the traditional motor insurance industry is facing eroding premiums and shrinking market share...
Elafris – 21st century messaging for the financial industry
Elafris is a chatbot platform that has been developed specifically for the banking and insurance industries. Elafris enables insurers to move beyond traditional customer enga...
Enigma Raises Another $95M to Bridge the Gap Between Data and Business Decisions
Enigma is a New York a data-as-a-service startup enable organizations to make sense of their internal data and leverage real world data signals. To facilitate its idea, Enigm...
Erie Insurance to Use Drones for Claims and Underwriting in the USA
Erste Digital’s B2B Digital Broker Platform
Espire Infolabs Customer Engagement Hub (CEH)
Espire Infolabs (a global CRM provider) and Pitney Bowes (a logictics firm) have launched the Customer Engagement Hub, to help insurers and intermediaries implementation, ana...
Etiqa Takes the Lead to Service Insurance Customers via WhatsApp in Singapore
Etiqa Singapore and Whatsapp have entered into an agreement to allow customers to leverage Etiqa’s customer care support via the messaging application. All personal pol...
Everledger’s Pioneering Blockchain Work for Diamonds
Everledger, a London-based blockchain company, has applied blockchain technology to over 1.6mn diamonds effectively creating a digital twin of the object. This established re...
EVRYTHNG’s IoT Smart Products Platform – Smart solutions for insurance companies
Evrythng is a U.S based IoT platform that gives physical objects an online identity. This facilitates the exchange of data in real-time throughout a product’s lifecycle...
Excalibur Insurance’s chatbot Aiden
Excalibur Insurance, an Ontario-based P&C broker with offices in Clinton, Mitchell, Wingham and Exeter uses an AI chatbot – Aiden – to service its clients.
Farmers Insurance – On-demand roadside assistance
US based Farmers Insurance has introduced a new app in partnership with roadside assistance startup Honk. Using the app, Farmer’s policy holders can signal the need for assis...
FinanceFox – The insurance consultant for your back pocket
FinanceFox is a Swiss-based mobile app that facilitates the digital management of insurance policies and also offers advice regarding coverage gaps,...
FinChatBot demonstrates AI-powered chatbots for customer acquisition
Founded in 2016 in Cape Town by French-born Antoine Paillusseau and co-founder Romain Diaz, FinChatBot is a South African startup developing chatbots to help ...
Flock – Pay as you fly Drone insurance
Allianz and Flock, a UK based InsurTech, are set to launch the first pay-as-you fly drone insurance later this year for the UK market. The coverage can be tailored to each fl...
FloodFlash an InsurTech startup focused on properties at risk of flooding raises £1.9m seed
FloodFlash is a London-based startup specialising in flood insurance. Founded in 2017 and was developed by a team that spent decades by modelling and structuring of parametri...
fundMyLife – The Web Marketplace for Financial Advisers
Consumer trust has always been an issue for the insurance industry, both in terms of finding appropriate coverage and in times of a claim. fundMyLife is trying to breath tran...
GEICO improves efficiency and enhances customer experience with Duck Creek
Geico is best known in the U.S for its direct marketing and tailored property insurance policies. However, increasing competition from online platforms such as Goji and Metro...
GetSafe Digital Insurance Manager
Go Digit – India’s first digital insurer backed by Fairfax
Digit plans to disrupt the traditionally run Indian general insurance sector by introducing new products, services and giving a completely new di...
Goji – the largest online, independent auto insurance agency in the United States
Goji provides auto insurance comparison for the U.S market. It positions itself as “the largest online, independent auto insurance agency in the US”. The challen...
GoodData analytics startup enters Insurance
GoodData, a US-based embedded and distributed analytics startup has entered the insurance industry by introducing solutions which will streamline insurance cl...
Google Compare, UK quote comparison site
Google partners with Trov to insure its driverless car service
Google’s Alphabet has entered into a partnership with Silicon Vall...
Guevara Peer To Peer Car Insurance
Hanover launches customer acquisition platform for independent agents
In the US, Hanover Insurance Group has launched a new digital platform called Insurago which enables independent agents to easily acquire new customers. The platform is power...
HDFC Life – Technology Enabled Business Transformation
HDFC Life, one of the India’s leading life insurance companies, has been driving several strategic initiatives to address the head winds facing traditional insurers in India....
HDIBOT
Turkey’s HDI Sigorta, recognizing the importance of social media in engaging today’s consumers, has launched a Facebook messenger bot tasked with handling simple ...
Heiniubao – Automatically adjusts premium contributions
Heiniubao is a Chinese participating life insurance App that pools members premiums before automatically adjusts premium contributions to optimise the ROI for users who allow...
Helvetia Venture Fund
Helvetia, a Swiss insurer, has set up the Helvetia Venture Fund to invest in next generation InsurTech startups, which will contribute to the digital transformation of its ex...
HiThere advanced analytics
HiThere is a Dutch startup founded in 2016 as a spin out of Kleynen Consultants and based on advanced analytics that was originally conceived as a back-office platform for in...
Hixme – Rebuilding benefits from the bottom up
Hixme is trying to disrupt the traditional employer health benefits model. Launched in 2013, Hixme helps employers transition to a private benefit exchange, ultimately libera...
Hollard employs DRTV as part of a Multichannel Marketing Strategy
Homelyfe launches digital insurance platform
UK based, Homelyfe launched a B2B digital insurance platform called “Aventus” which enables businesses to create a white label buying experience for any insurance line, in an...
Hong Kong’s first pure digital insurance venture, Tencent-backed Blue
Blue, a HK-based digital life insurance company is a JV owned by Aviva (40% ownership), Hillhouse Capital (40%), and Tencent (20%). The JV is expected to disrupt the Hong Kon...
Human API – Health Data Aggregation platform
Human API is a data aggregation platform that aggregates, stores and abstracts data from mobile devices, wearable sensors, and other internet enabled data sources. The servic...
Humana’s Cue App helps develop long lasting habits and promote better health
ICICI Prudential Launches NEO app
India – Life insurers work to develop industry-wide blockchain solution
In India, Cognizant has teamed up with a consortium of life insurers to develop a blockchain solution to facilitate cross-company data sharing. The distribute...
IndiaFirstLifeStore – online store for buying insurance
Inmediate signs MOU with MSIG Insurance to spearhead new insurance ecosystem
MSIG Singapore has signed an MoU with Inmediate, a smart insurance network founded by Insurance Market Group to expand the creation of a new insurance ecosystems.
MSIG...
INSHUR – TLC Insurance Reimagined
INSHUR is a new mobile-first insurance platform that allows ride sharing drivers to buy a commercial liability insurance policy in seconds just by taking a few pictures with ...
insPeer – France’s first P2P Insurance Service
insPeer is a French based community insurance platform specialising in auto insurance. Specifically, insPeer allows members to increase and insure each others’ deductib...
Insquik – Life Insurance Online
INSQUIK is a B2B white label ecommerce solution for life insurance brokers. Specifically, the Insquick solution enables insurance agents to set up and customise their own web...
Instony – Chinese Insurance APP
Instony is a Chinese insurance app that is focusing on ancillary services in order to cross-sell insurance.
Launched in 2011, Instony distributes a free wi-fi dongle f...
Insurer Beazley to launch blockchain registry with Bitfury, Lloyd’s broker and Emericon
Insurer Beazley has partnered with Risk Cooperative, an insurance broker which supports Lloyd’s London programs; in addition to Bitfury Group which is a blockchain tech...
Insurify – Smarter, easier car insurance
Insurify is the first online car insurance shopping platform that instantly verifies customer data to provide an intuitive and integrated user experience. The company analyse...
Insurtech Coya receives license from German Regulator
Found in 2016, Coya is a Berlin-based P&C Insurtech which has been granted a BAFIN license by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority. Coya recently raised a f...
Insurtech TrackActive seeks new funding to develop AI-enabled product
TrackActive, a UK-based insurtech has partnered with Gen Re to raise £300k seed funding to develop TrackActive Me, an artificial intelligence-enabled musculoskeletal (MSK) so...
Intact invests in self-driving startup
Intact Financial has partnered with Voyage which is a self-driving car startup which runs its taxis in The Villages in Florida, one of the larges...
iXledger’s new platform provides insurance for companies embarcing blockchain
iXledger is a UK-based startup founded in 2017, which has launched a platform that allows companies embracing blockchain to obtain business insurance quotes based on a risk a...
Jerry – A digital agency
Although aggregators have been around for decades, Jerry is eliminating the painstaking data entry element of aggregation with a new take on online personal lines di...
John Hancock redefines Life Insurance with Vitality program
Kakau – the first subscription-based insurance in Brazil
Kakau the first subscription based insurance in Brazil.
Kate – Geico’s Virtual Assistant to Answer Insurance Questions
Kevin – The insurance of the sharing economy
Kevin, Traity’s new chatbot, provides micro-insurance for P2P transactions online. Created in collaboration with Australia’s financial services conglomerate, Suncorp, Kevin s...
Knip – Mobile-First Digital Insurance Manager
Knip is a Swiss based ‘Mobile-First’ Digital Insurance Manager with a $15.7 million Series B round to its name. According to Knip co-founder Dennis, “We want to build an ...
Ladder Life Insurance
Life insurance is proving to be a difficult nut to crack for digital insurers. Although the reasons are multiple Ladder is among a new breed of startups that are trying to re...
Lapetus Chronos – The future of life event prediction
Lapetus Solutions is a US based startup that is working on ‘life event dependent businesses’. Specifically, the facial recognition technology developed at Lapetus...
Legal & General launches digital platform for brokers
In the UK, L&G has launched a new digital broker platform that delivers greater efficiency by enabling online client management for Group Income Protection and Group Life...
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