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UOB renews bancassurance deal with Prudential for S$1.15b
Prudential Plc and United Overseas Bank (UOB) have renewed their bancassurance agreement for S$1.15bn. The partnership is 15 years old and started when UOB sold its life insu...
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...
Munich Re inks global telematics agreement with The Floow
Munich Re has partnered with the Floow a telematics provider. Launched in 2012, Floow mission is to make mobility safer and smarter via a range of innovative telematics solut...
Popsure: Insurance made easy for people who don’t speak German
Popsure is an independent online advisory platform in Germany which helps people to understand insurance better and make a well-informed independent decision. The customers b...
SkyWatch.AI Announces New Partnerships with Aviation Brokers
SkyWatch.AI is a data analytics platform which offers drone pilots on-demand insurance solutions. The platform leverages machine learning to assess risk and mitigate it real-...
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...
MarketScout invests in cyber insurtech Wingman
In the US, a national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA MarketScout has invested in InsurTech platform Wingman via MarketScout’s venture arm.
Wingman’s d...
Verifly launches business insurance product for gig economy workers
New York based Verifly is an insurance provider for drone pilots. It has now launched several new policies for workers engaged in the on-demand economy. The first of...
Zurich Partners with The Makeover Guys to Protect Newly Renovated Homes
Zurich General Insurance has partnered with The Makeover Guys, (a property investment solutions provider) to launch a new insurance solution known as ‘The Make...
Thumbtack Tries Bridging the Benefits Gap for Gig Workers
Founded in 2008, Thumbtack achieved unicorn status by matching professionals like tutors and painters to locals in need of their services. Recently, the company anno...
Tapoly: Broker platform for on demand products
Tapoly is an insurtech that focuses on self-employed freelancers, sole traders, contractors, AirBNB hosts, and small businesses. It has also developed a new online s...
Marsh enables ‘proof of insurance’ for gig workers
Marsh has partnered with a data security platform, ‘Evident’, to develop a first-of-its-kind blockchain based verification solution for its sharing and gig economy clients. T...
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...
RSA-linked machine learning project receives government funding
In Feb 2019, Innovate UK announced that it will fund a two-year research programme which will explore machine learning to better forecast risk.
The programme will see ...
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...
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.
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...
SCOR teams up with Garmin Health to improve underwriting process
SCOR Global Life has announced a partnership with Garmin Health, a wearable technology startup, with the aim of improving its underwriting in the Asia Pacific region.
...
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...
SAI Global Adds RegTech Muscle With BWise Buy
SAI Global, an integrated risk management software provider, has added a new function to its RegTech offerings by acquiring regulatory compliance platform BWise. The deal is ...
Zurich acquires technology company for auto warranties
Zurich has acquired U.S based Sea Pine Technologies, a provider of digital applications for marketing of vehicle protection products. This acquisition enables Zurich to posit...
MSIG Insurance, the first in Singapore to use video tech to optimise motor claims process
MSIG Insurance has partnered with communications tool Wavecell and claims management software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Merimen to launch a video interaction pilot program...
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...
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...
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...
Life360 and Allstate Form Strategic Relationship to Transform Car Insurance and Personal Transportation
Life360 has partnered with Allstate to provide millions of users with insights into their driving behavior and personalized insurance offers. Alt...
Waymo’s Driverless Application Is Scrubbed of Insurance Details
Waymo, a self-driving technology company has obtained insurance to begin testing autonomous vehicles with no backup drivers on Bay Area roads. The details of the policy have ...
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, ...
Ping An Announces AI-Driven Car Insurance Claims Processor
Ping An’s has launched a mobile app that allows drivers to make claims and get compensation deducted from a dynamic credit quota, which is ...
Shanghai-based insurtech raises US$15.5 million in series A round
Shanghai-based Ins For Renascence (IFR) recently raised approximately $15.5mn in series A funding led by Matrix Partners.
IFR specializes in pre-insurance ris...
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...
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...
XL Catlin adopts new online notification platform to address Marine insurance claims in North America
XL Catlin’s Global Marine business has rolled out an online claim reporting tool in North America to help clients quickly and easily submit notifications of their Marin...
Verivox Acquires Insurance Broker Unit of Getsafe
Verivox, a joint venture between General Atlantic and Nucom’s price comparison site, has acquired the broker unit of Getsafe, the Germany-based digital insurance wallet.
...
Phoenix Intellinsur building insurance’s Dianping.com
Phoenix Finance is a financial investment platform established by Phoenix Satellite Television Group. Phoenix Finance provides a wide range of financial products and private ...
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 ...
Milliman launches InsurTech solution for re/insurers loss reserving
Millman Inc,an international consulting and actuarial firm have announced the launch of an advanced analytics software called Arius Enterprise. The software assists loss rese...
The CVS/Aetna Merger Will Transform Healthcare Technology
Although CVS Health and Aetna’s US$69bn merger deal is expected to transform the nation’s health care industry, the two companies are currently focusing on a mob...
OneShield Software aligns with UrbanStat to enhance real-time analytics and machine learning for insurers
In the US, OneShield Software, a provider of cloud-hosted, full-suite policy administration system has integrated with UrbanStat Inc’s analytical solution to geo-analyt...
Moody’s Offers RiskIntegrity™ IFRS 17 Software for Insurers Preparing for Reporting Standards
Moody’s Analytics have announced the launch of RiskIntegrity IFRS 17, a cloud-based system designed to help insurers report under the new International Financial Repor...
Verisk’s ISO Personal Lines Program Targets $40 Billion Private Flood Insurance Market
Verisk has launched a new flood insurance program which enables insurers to enter the private flood insurance market by offering broad and flexible coverage options in a temp...
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...
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...
Patra Corp Continues Strong Investment in InsurTech With New Product Launches and Corporate Acquisition
Patra corporation has launched a cloud-based repository and delivery system called CertVault which helps to secure and streamline the delivery insurance policies. It has also...
Marsh Makes Blockchain Proof of Insurance Accessible Through Salesforce
Marsh and IBM are expanding their collaboration with industry-wide access to its first commercial blockchain solution for proof of concept tests.
The solution aims to ...
ZhongAn Online Embarks Global Technology Empowerment Journey Expanding Insurance Boundary
In HK, Zhong An has announced the launch of a new core insurance system called Graphene which will enable insurance companies to synergize their their channels within a week,...
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...
Smart Travel Health Insurance
Unico Sigorta one of the leading insurance company in Turkey which has a vision of creating innovative insurance products. They have designed a smart travel health insurance ...
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...
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...
Willis Towers Watson releases new digital tool
Willis Towers Watson has launched a new digital tool called Captive Quantified aimed at helping organizations analyse the financial feasibility and future profitability of th...
Prudential and Babylon join forces to pioneer AI-powered digital health services in Asia
Prudential Corporation Asia has entered into an exclusive strategic partnership with UK-based med-tech firm Babylon Health, to leverage it’s A.I expertise as it relates to on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
World’s first blockchain platform for marine insurance now in commercial use
Willis Towers Watson, XL Catlin, MS Amlin, ACORD, EY, Guardtime, A.P. Møller-Maersk, and Microsoft have announed the launch of the world’s first blockchain platform cal...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Willis Towers Watson launches tailored cyberinsurance coverage for general aviation business
Recently, Willis Tower Watson (WTW) launched a cyber insurance solution called WTW Aerospace Cyber Guard for the general aviation industry. The product was developed...
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...
Travelers Europe Launches Cyber Insurance in UK and Ireland
Travelers Europe has launched a first standalone cyber insurance for businesses in the UK and Ireland. The policy is named as CyberRisk and it provides:
– Liabil...
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.
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...
Uber launches Insurance Cover for its Drivers, Riders in Bangladesh
Uber, the world’s largest on-demand ridesharing company, has launched an insurance programme for its riders and drivers in Bangladesh.
The policy will provide bo...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Zurich working with Apple on new broker app
In Q4 of this year, Zurich and Apple will jointly launch a broker app in the UK. The app has been integrated with Zurich systems to automatically supply useful information ab...
Kakau – the first subscription-based insurance in Brazil
Kakau the first subscription based insurance in Brazil.
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...
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...
NextCapital gets $30 million more funding for its digital advice platforms
NextCapital is a US-based enterprise digital advice solution provider that delivers personalized planning and managed accounts to individual investors across multiple channel...
MetLife demos health parametric insurance
In Singapore, Metlife’s LumenLab showcased a demo of Vitana – a new parametric insurance app that aims to be Singapore’s first gestational diabetes protection for expec...
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 ...
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...
Marsh launches Marsh Digital Labs
Insurance broker Marsh has announced the launch of Marsh Digital Labs, an incubator based in California. The incubator will pursue selected tech experiments a...
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...
Munich Re to reshuffle value chain, move closer to the customer
Munich Re, the German reinsurer is endeavoring to move closer to its customer. The plan is to leverage technology and digitize the existing value chain to sim...
MetLife forms strategic digital insurance partnership with Tencent’s WeSure
In China, Metlife and Tencent’s digital insurance provider WeSure have joined hands to provide travel insurance to travelers through WeSure’s onli...
Prudential to boost technology spending in Asian expansion drive
Prudential Plc is planning to boost its technology investments in Asia by 20% to GBP300mn (USD427mn) and will invest in automation, online sales service and s...
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...
Youse Friends: First Brazilian P2P insurance
Youse is a Brazilian startup launched in 2015 that offers Caixa Seguradora’s home, auto and life insurance. Caixa Seguradora, as Brazil’s f...
MetLife partners with AXA telemedicine platform
Metlife and AXA have partnered to develop a teleconsultation service proposition to all employees in the US who are travelling overseas.
Zurich partners with iPipeline
Zurich UK has partnered with iPipeline, a provider of next-generation solutions and services to the life, pension, and investment markets
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...
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 ...
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, ...
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,...
Self-driving car data prompts new insurance products
Autonomous cars will usher in a new era of demands and expectations from the insurance industry. Soon accidents due to speeding, texting and drink driving wil...
Why driving safety tech doesn’t cut claims costs – yet
Conventional wisdom dictates that autonomous driving, underpinned by sensors and location software, will make driving safer and help reduce claims. However, s...
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...
Zhong An launches big data platform for vehicle sector
In November last year, Zhong An continued its mission towards becoming China’s pre-eminent data driven insurer by partnering with Sinosafe Asset Insurance and...
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.
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...
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...
StartUp Health raises US$19.3m led by Ping An Global Voyager Fund, GuideWell, Masimo
StartUp Health is an accelerator founded in 2011 by Steven Krein and Unity Stoakes, the program is trying to enable entrepreneurs to realise ten healthcare ba...
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 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...
Zurich acquires Bright Box, specialist in connected car technologies
Zurich has acquired 100% of HK based Bright Box and its subsidiaries. Br...
Google partners with Trov to insure its driverless car service
Google’s Alphabet has entered into a partnership with Silicon Vall...
Tool can help insurers ensure document authenticity
Tool is a Canadian claims analysis platform that helps insurers to ensure document authenticity as they relate to claims. Specifically, Tool help...
Octo’s Vantage tag-based telematics aims to improve data quality
Octo Telematics, a global provider of telematics and data analytics solu...
Baron Telematics Weather – A preventive tool to reduce claims
Baron is a weather intelligence solution provider, which has taken telem...
BigIns – Tailored health insurance in China
BigIns is a Shanghai based broker that is targeting the health and life segment with tailored policies distribut...
Muang Thai Life Rethinking Health Insurance
Muang Thai Life (MTL) has launched a health/wellness programme that focuses on providing Thai customers with more involved healthcare support than traditional health insuranc...
Progressive’s Flo turned into chatbot
Progressive Insurance has joined several insurers in embracing Facebook messenger chatbots. On this occasion, Progressive has imbued its chatbot with AI to enable a quoting t...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Sanagate’s SanaHealth app
Swiss health insurer Sanagate AG and Dacadoo, a digital healthcare startup, have launched an app called SanaHealth. Although there are several similar health apps already ava...
NTUC Income Jiffy Jane chatbot
Jiffy Jane is a chatbot developed by Singapore’s NTUC and Zumata, a travel technology company which is one of the nine startups selected from NTUC’s InsurTech acc...
Snapsheet mobile auto claims solution
Launched in 2011 and based in Chicago, Snapsheet (formerly BodyShopBids, Inc) is a mobile claims solution tackling the traditional auto claim appraisal process – which ...
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...
Majesco’s Digital1st insurance
Founded in 1982, Majesco is a global provider of core insurance software and consulting services. In 2017, it launched its first digital engagement and micro-services based s...
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...
Ruschlikon – Blockchain consortium aims to speed claims processing by 30%
Named after a town in Switzerland where a group of insurance practitioners first met to discuss the use of distributed ledger technology, Ruschlikon is an industry wide initi...
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 ...
Pineapple – South African community insurer
Pineapple (formerly Amyti) is a Johannesburg-based P2P insurer, and South Africa’s first P2P insurer. Last month, Pineapple received R5.2 mn in seed funding from Lireas...
State Auto Labs – Corporate venture fund
US insurer State Auto Labs and RV1 Ventures have jointly launched a US$25mn Corporate Venture Fund to find startups focusing on advanced analytics, new distribution models an...
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...
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...
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...
Paytm – Insurance cover for the e-wallet
Alibaba-backed digital payments and e-commerce platform Paytm has recently launched a new e-wallet insurance product to cover users of the Paytm Wallet in the event of theft...
LifeSmart – Connected home applications for China
LifeSmart is a Hanzhou based smart home appliance manufacturer that is using advanced sensors to hasten the onset of the ‘connected home’, where everyday household appliances...
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...
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...
Riskeys
Riskeys is a Shanghai based aggregator that is targeting the health and life segment with a new approach to customer acquisition. Specifically, the intensity of competition i...
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...
Zego – Flexible insurance for delivery drivers
Zego, previously known as Tego, is a London-based on-demand insurance provider which is making insurance flexible and more accessible for customers, and to manage their own p...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Worry+Peace Pouch – Amazon like marketplace for insurance
Worry+Peace is a UK based insurance broker re-imagining the entire insurance process by building tools to deliver an all encompassing insurance experience rather than mere po...
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...
MSIG UMax – Telematics based motor insurance
MSIG Insurance is continuing its digital evolution with the launch of the MSIG UMax – a motor insurance with an innovative telematics device that aims to improve traffic safe...
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 ...
MassMutual Ventures
MassMutual Ventures, a $100 million fund established in 2015, is actively investing in and partnering with genetic, data analytics, cyber security, digital health and enterpr...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures
Northwestern Mutual has set up a $50 million corporate venture fund to invest in technology startups that are innovating in the field of consumer finance, digital medicine an...
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