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Thought Leadership

Canopy CEO Turns the Spotlight on Renters’ Insurance Needs

Behind every new idea is a problem that needed solving. For Tahir Farooqui (pictured), founder and CEO of Canopy, a London-based insurtech providing of services the rental sector, his business concept was inspired by his experiences renting in a myriad of locations. Between living in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the US, he said, he found that renting was tough and that the financial services sector has tended to underserve the renter – and thus Canopy was created to combat that trend.

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Funding

Leading InsurTech Company TypTap Raises $100 Million

TypTap Insurance Group, Inc., is pleased to announce that a fund affiliated with Centerbridge Partners, L.P. has invested $100 million in the company. The investment, representing about 11.75% of TypTap, implies a post-money valuation for TypTap of approximately $850 million.

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Thought Leadership

How COVID-19 Impacted The Future Of Insurtech

Looking ahead, insurance regulators should be more likely to allow more significant technical advancement and use in the insurance industry since, during the pandemic, many innovations were allowed and successfully used.

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Partnerships

Buckle Partners with TNEDICCA for Auto Insurance Underwriting

Buckle announced that it will add crash risk data from TNEDICCA to auto insurance underwriting for Transportation Network Company (TNC) Drivers. TNEDICCA is a Columbus, OH-based company that provides location-based crash intelligence to enable more accurate auto insurance pricing.

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Funding

Health Insurance Startup Devoted Health Quietly Raised $380 Million

Devoted Health, a startup that sells health insurance to seniors, quietly raised $380 million last year, three people familiar with the matter told Insider. The round, led by Uprising, closed in July 2020, two people close to the company said. The sources were not authorized to speak on the record.

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Trends

4 Trends That Will Impact Car Insurance in 2021

The car insurance field is constantly evolving. Insurance companies must not only to respond to ever-changing and increasingly sophisticated customer needs, but also embrace new technologies and ways of doing business.

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Product Launch

Zurich and Onto use AI to gain Unbiased Risk Insight on its Entire EV Fleet

The Insurtech company Greater Than is deepening its collaboration with Zurich through an agreement with Onto, the UK’s largest all-inclusive electric car subscription service. Through the collaboration, Onto and Zurich obtain predictive risk data, facilitating their joint mission to improve road safety and enable dynamic insurance solutions.

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Thought Leadership

Pressure to Innovate Shifts Priorities by Denise Garth

For those of you who love music like I do, you will hopefully agree that one of the best songs by the rock band Queen was “Under Pressure,” co-written by the famous David Bowie. The story is that the collaboration was creatively different as the vocal was constructed in a very novel way in one night, where they all contributed different pieces of the song musically and vocally and then put it together to create what is considered one of the greatest hits!

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Leadership Change

Policybazaar ex-CTO Shailendra Tewari Joins InsurTech GramCover

Insurtech startup, GramCover has announced the appointment of Shailendra Tewari as CTO. Tewari was one of the founding members and the CTO of Policybazaar. At GramCover, Shailendra Tewari will lead the technology vertical to automate various business processes. Thus, he will bridge the gap between technology and business. Further, GramCover aims to make its technology easier and smarter. With Tewari on the team, they aim to analyze and change software processes and journeys.

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Strategy

How do you Adapt your Insurance Pricing Strategy in the Face of Increased Price Competition?

Many countries in Europe have in previous years experienced increased price competition for general insurance products. Especially in Southern Europe, the competition has been very fierce, fuelled by online price comparison websites. In Spain, Portugal and Greece, there has been a substantial drop in average premiums for products like motor, home and health insurance. This poses a real threat to the profitability of property and casualty insurers.

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Funding

Zurich Invests in InsurTech Startup My Policy

My Policy, a leading UK provider of data analytics and telematics insurance, announces today an investment by Zurich Group, as part of which Zurich will become a long-term insurance capacity provider, joining an existing panel of insurers to enable rapid growth of My Policy’s recently launched usage-based insurance (“UBI”) product, JURNY.

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Product Launch

Tesla to Offer Auto Insurance Program in Texas

Not only is Tesla moving some manufacturing operations to Austin, Texas, its founder, Elon Musk, is said to be relocating there, and the electric car company will soon be offering its own brand of car insurance in the Lone Star State.

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Funding

3 Insurance IPO Launches To Watch In 2021

The IPOs of several insurance companies, such as Lemonade Inc (NYSE: LMND), in 2020 may lead to additional companies in the sector hitting the public market in 2021. Companies could explore a traditional IPO or a SPAC deal to bring their insurance companies public.

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Partnerships

AXA Partners with AI Insurtech Akur8 to Transform Pricing Process in Spain

Akur8, an Artificial Intelligence-based technological solution, and AXA Spain forge a partnership to contribute to the enhancement of AXA Spain’s pricing process. This deal marks the first partnership of Akur8 in Spain, one of Europe’s most competitive insurance markets, and the pursuit of Akur8’s expansion in Europe, with 6 countries of presence to date.

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Thought Leadership

Alternative Capital for Non-CAT Retrocession

Despite the contraction in the retrocession market in recent years due to CAT losses, the reinsurance market remains a very attractive option for capital market investors to deploy their capital, and an important strategic tool for reinsurers. Non-CAT insurance risk retrocession using AI-based risk modeling technologies can inject life back into the retrocession market.

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