InsurTech
What’s Next? ‘Adaptive Insurance’ for Small Biz, Says InsurTech CEO
Over the course of the last six years, Next Insurance has adapted its business model, its distribution method, and its product offerings. Coming up next, the InsurTech aims to offer "adaptive ...
Sayata Brings Total to $52M With Latest Raise in Funding Round
Sayata, a marketplace for insurance brokers and carriers, added $35 million to its latest funding round. The InsurTech previously raised $17 million five months ago, resulting in a total A round of ...
Root Implements Organizational Realignment, Lays Off 330 Employees
Technology company Root Inc., the Columbus, Ohio-based parent company of Root Insurance, announced yesterday that it has laid off approximately 330 team members throughout its business. Co-Founder ...
Cyber Insurers Working to Keep Up With Criminals
It's no question the cyber crime landscape is constantly evolving, keeping large and small businesses on their toes. But another industry is rapidly changing, and if businesses don't keep up, they ...
American Financial Group Acquires InsurTech Verikai in $120M Deal
American Financial Group (AFG) acquired Verikai Inc., a machine learning and artificial intelligence company that utilizes a predictive risk tool for assessing insurance risk, effective December ...
InsurTech Accelerant Raises More Than $190M in Latest Funding Round
InsurTech Accelerant raised more than $190 million at a $2 billion pre-money valuation in its latest funding round. The round was led by Eldridge, with participation from Deer Park, Marshall Wace, ...
Regulators Can Learn AI; New InsurTech Groups Will Help
It was the mid-1990s. Karen Clark's Applied Insurance Research and Hemant Shah's Risk Management Software were InsurTechs in their early stages of development—before the term for insurance ...
TypTap IPO Delayed
Insurance tech company TypTap and human resources software firm Justworks postponed their U.S. initial public offerings (IPOs) on Wednesday, joining several companies rethinking their plans to go ...