Product launches

American property insurance and climate risk analytics startup Zesty.ai has unveiled a predictive wildfire risk analytics solution, Z-FIRE a data-driven model powered by AI and comprehensive fire science.

NEXT Insurance, the leading digital insurtech company transforming small business insurance, today announced the availability of NEXT Connect, a trusted embedded insurance solution for some of the leading small business software ecosystems in the U.S.

Led by Group 11, the round will help the company bring simplicity and transparency to the historically complex industry of employer-sponsored health benefits in the U.S.

Tesla now offers car insurance in Texas, its new home state, a couple of years after launching the product in California.

Getlife, the new insurtech that aims to revolutionize life insurance by selling affordable, fair and easy products throughout Europe, has raised € 1 million of financing in a pre-seed investment round and the largest in the insurtech industry in Spain.

Swiss Re has partnered with mental health platform Wysa to develop a new app specifically designed for the insurance industry.

Tesla’s in-house insurance program will officially go live this week, Elon Musk revealed during the 2021 Shareholder’s Meeting held last night at Gigafactory Texas.

Socotra, the enterprise-grade core platform that enables insurers to rapidly develop and deploy innovative products that better serve their customers, today announced its newest offering, Socotra Marketplace, with partners Betterview and Snapsheet.

Swiss Re’s InsurTech iptiQ and Square Health, one of the UK’s largest networks of medical professionals, come together to provide clients and their customers top quality health advice.

Aon has launched Ransomware Defence, a new product offering that seeks to address the cyber insurability challenges of businesses in the UK and the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

Breeze, an insurtech focused on disability insurance, has launched the Breeze Agent Portal that streamlines how agents sell disability insurance and critical illness insurance to consumers.

In a first for Europe, online insurer Smile is expanding its business model
to include a ‘Freemium’ offering and making its app experience available
across Switzerland.

The company’s digital buying experience addresses the desire of consumers for professional advice combined with the convenience of a digital buying experience.

In August, Lemonade co-founder and co-CEO Shai Wininger discussed the company’s upcoming car insurance product.

Amazon is to start offering insurance to small and medium-sized UK business customers, the technology giant’s first foray into business insurance in the country, broker Superscript said on Monday.

Tesla owners in Texas may be able to buy auto insurance from Elon Musk’s electric car company as soon as next month.

Ltd (“Brit”) announces the creation and successful proof of concept launch of a proprietary machine learning algorithm designed to accelerate the identification of post catastrophe property damage, based on the use of ultra-high-resolution imagery.

Embroker released two new standalone digital insurance products: Cyber Insurance and Commercial Crime Insurance. Embroker insurance products, built digitally from the ground up, are designed for privately held small to medium sized businesses that are being underserved by legacy commercial insurance carriers.

Cover Whale Insurance Solutions Inc., a Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.-based insurtech, is partnering with excess and surplus lines insurer Everspan Indemnity Insurance Co., to offer a commercial trucking insurance program.

Farmers Insurance today announced plans to use a digitally controlled mobile robot to assist with in-field catastrophe claims handling and non-catastrophe property inspections, helping to improve the safety and efficiency of both while becoming one of the first national P&C insurers to deploy a robotic quadruped.

British visual assessment and disaster recovery startup Tractable has unveiled AI Inspection, a solution that precisely assesses the external condition of a vehicle’s body within minutes.

The platform will allow insurers to accelerate their transition to new digital operating models, facilitate the creation of new products and drive cost savings – irrespective of business line.

A new UK Motor Insurer Adiona has launched today in London. Adiona is a new technology-driven brand led by a group of global industry figures who are aiming to make changes to fix the ‘broken’ motor insurance market.

Hippo, the home insurance group that created a new standard of care and protection for homeowners, today announced the launch of its Builders Program to further simplify the home purchase process and deliver home insurance directly to buyers of newly built homes.