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| BBVA-backed Propel Venture Partners has led a $9m Series A round in Charlie, a text-based AI chatbot helping people stay...
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| MioAssicuratore, a Rome, Italy-based insurtech startup, raised €1.5M in funding. The round was led by Innogest Capital with participation from Pi Campus...
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| The company offers episodic supplemental injury and accident coverage for outdoor endeavors...
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| Currently working with Unum as a strategic customer, the startup's platform conceives of service interactions as micro-engagements for building trust and brand
loyalty...
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| Corvus Insurance has secured $10 million in new venture financing that the Boston-based insurtech
managing general agency...
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This month’s InsurTech Insights looks at cyber security and its implications for the insurance industry.Vincent Maret, Partner and Head of Cyber Security Services, from KPMG France, provides a good overview on how a variety of different corporates are handling the cyber threat.Rick Huckstep, in his article, reminds us how cyber cannot be viewed and treated by (re)insurers like other more
traditional lines of insurance. | | This month we have the first in our three-part series on China’s BAT – the tech giants Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and consider the digital insurance activities currently underway at Alibaba. As China’s biggest eCommerce destination, Alibaba has amassed more than 500 million active users across ecommerce, mobile payments and O2O services.
| | This is the second of two insurance focused papers concentrates on the innovation that is already taking place in India.It acknowledges the growing population increases – 1.35 billion by 2020 –the opportunity, but insurance penetration is still only around 4%, though expected to grow to US$280 billion by the end of 2020...
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Like a toddler learning to take its first steps, real blockchain use cases are finally starting to emerge.This month’s InsurTech Insights is focused on blockchain, and potential applications of the underlying technology for our industry. Which is great news for me, as a self-declared fan. I’m convinced we are seeing the emergence of a break-through technology
that is going to transform our personal and professional lives forever. | | This month we examine an emerging mutual insurance model that merges the ubiquitous Chinese social media and messaging app WeChat, which is developed by Tencent, with a group buying ethos. We also examine a hardware/software initiative from Allianz China and speak to Hui Zhang from Answern Online about the state of digital insurance in China and the emergence of renewed mutual health
insurance.
| | Traditional insurers face a growing array of digital competitors armed with new tools capable of delivering more agile, customer‑focused solutions. This report from KPMG outlines how incumbents can get on a path to co-opting these tools to build winning digital strategies themselves..
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