Sector Updates

Generali in €435m deal as it expands French foothold

Italy’s Generali is to acquire insurance company La Médicale as it looks to expand its health and protection lines and the overall property & casualty (P&C) business in France.

Assurity launches critical illness protection

Assurity Life Insurance Company has launched criticalillness.com, a complete self-service platform for buying critical illness insurance.

Socotra and Spixii join forces for conversational analytics

Socotra, a cloud-native platform for insurers, has partnered with Spixii to enable insurers to integrate Spixii’s conversational automation with Socotra’s core platform, a report by Coverager has revealed.

180° Seguros raises biggest InsurTech Series A in Brazil

Brazilian InsurTech startup 180° Seguros has netted $31.4m in its Series A funding round, which was led by 8VC.

How Casava is empowering Africa with microinsurance

Nigeria-based InsurTech Casava has raised $4m in pre-seed funding on its mission to provide affordable income insurance.

Obie and Rooftstock partner for investment property insurance

InsurTech Obie is to partner with Roofstock, which provides a real estate marketplace, to streamline investment property transactions.

Luko and Akur8 in pricing alliance

InsurTech Akur8 is collaborating with France-based neo-insurance company Luko to strengthen Luko’s pricing process.

Ryder and REIN to provide embedded truck insurance products

Ryder, provider of supply chain and commercial fleet management solutions, has partnered with InsurTech REIN to launch an embedded insurance programme for used truck customers.

Tint secures Series A to empower tech platforms to become insurers

Tint, the platform that aims to empower companies to protect their end-users through embedded insurance products, has raised $25m in Series A funding.

Coalition launches risk products for US small businesses

InsurTech Coalition has launched a suite of tech-powered executive risk insurance products with personalised risk assessments for small businesses in the US.

News Stories

Producer licensing is one of those parts of insurance that tends to stay in the background until it starts slowing everything else down. As carriers expand their agent networks, the process of onboarding producers, managing appointments, and maintaining compliance records often still depends on fragmented systems and manual intervention.

Fixing the producer bottleneck in insurance distribution

Producer licensing is one of those parts of insurance that tends to stay in the background until it starts slowing everything else down. As...
Simply Business, a digital insurance marketplace, has launched a business insurance app on ChatGPT in the US, alongside a separate rollout in the UK.

Simply Business brings small business insurance pricing into ChatGPT

Simply Business, a digital insurance marketplace, has launched a business insurance app on ChatGPT in the US, alongside a separate rollout in the UK. The...
Cytora, a digital risk processing platform, has announced a strategic relationship with LexisNexis Risk Solutions to embed advanced data and analytics into its platform for US commercial insurers.Cytora, a digital risk processing platform, has announced a strategic relationship with LexisNexis Risk Solutions to embed advanced data and analytics into its platform for US commercial insurers.

Cytora partners LexisNexis to enhance US commercial underwriting

Cytora, a digital risk processing platform, has announced a strategic relationship with LexisNexis Risk Solutions to embed advanced data and analytics into its platform...
INSTANDA, a no-code insurance platform provider, has partnered with DataCrest, a workflow solutions firm, to enhance submission intake and quoting efficiency for insurers and MGAs.

INSTANDA and DataCrest team up to streamline insurance submissions

INSTANDA, a no-code insurance platform provider, has partnered with DataCrest, a workflow solutions firm, to enhance submission intake and quoting efficiency for insurers and...
Openly, a tech-enabled homeowners insurance provider, has secured a growth investment round led by existing investors Eden Global Partners, Advance Venture Partners and Gradient, with strategic participation from Allianz X.

Openly boosts expansion plans with funding and Allianz Re deal

Openly, a tech-enabled homeowners insurance provider, has secured a growth investment round led by existing investors Eden Global Partners, Advance Venture Partners and Gradient,...
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