Content from Matteo Carbone
Matteo Carbone is Director of the IoT Insurance Observatory and chairman of Net Insurance’s innovation advisory board. Carbone was the Guest Editor of the Carrier Management Q32021 special report, ”Insurance Is Getting Connected,” and Q42023 special report, ”Making More Connections,” about IoT insurance applications. A frequent contributor, Carbone was also a guest editor for Carrier Management’s 2018 featured magazine section, “Startups Face Off Against Established Players” ; co-editor Adrian Jones)
New Vanity Metrics vs. Old School KPIs: Evaluating InsurTech Performance
Since I began a quarterly discussion of U.S.-based InsurTech carriers' financials based on their public filings last year, many have responded that these players needed to be evaluated on other ...
At Long Last, an Insurance Company Proud of Its Human Agents—and Telling the World
A recent social media debate on insurance innovation was sparked by a State Farm TV ad in which the insurance giant celebrates the superiority of its thousands of human insurance agents compared to ...
Between an Ant and a Grasshopper, Lemonade’s Results ‘Most Improved’
The three U.S. venture-backed InsurTech carriers we have been tracking for several quarters have more money, more premium and more losses as we head into the last quarter of the year. During the ...
Can an InsurTech Startup Compete With Progressive and GEICO?
The most common refrain of startups is that insurance is broken and their solution will fix it. Oui, c'est vrai. But two companies have their act together more than almost any other insurers: GEICO ...
Startups vs. Incumbents Revisited: Q32018
We first pointed out in a second quarter analysis of VC-backed startups Root, Lemonade and Metromile that companies run or led by well-known underwriters were growing slowly but far more profitable ...
‘Root’ of the Problem: Why One InsurTech’s Loss Ratios Still Disappoint
In the first part of this four-part article, we revealed that Root—currently the fastest growing carrier of three VC-backed InsurTechs we've been tracking—also posted the worst loss ratio result ...
Chloe and Insurance: A Love Affair
When Chloe steps out the door of her apartment on her way to work in the morning, her vehicle automatically unlocks its doors while the navigation system maps out the best route based on the latest ...
UBI Insurance Is Not Usage-Based. Sorry, Not Sorry!
Usage-based pricing is a fascinating topic for insurers. A technology that allows persistent monitoring of risk exposure during the coverage period could potentially enable insurers to price each ...