Tagged: insurtech

October 9, 2016 @ 8:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

The insurance industry is a sector of finance that is begging for disruption. In the Fintech arena, Insurtech is poised to be huge. The US Treasury Department published a study of insurance in September that pegged total assets for insurance at over $8 trillion. In… Read More

October 7, 2016 @ 1:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

The company that wants to fix everything that is wrong about  traditional insurance, Lemonade, has only recently launched. The Fintech / Insurtech platform, which has been anticipated for many months now, finally announced its availability in the state of New York at the end of… Read More

August 25, 2016 @ 8:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Cloud Solutions, a Norwegian Insurtech company, recently raised equity capital on Invesdor’s crowdfunding platform. The offer was over-subscribed and the success is being attributed, in part, to the integration of Signicat technology. Finland-based Invesdor explains that due to equity crowdfunding regulation that mandated know your customer… Read More

August 6, 2016 @ 6:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Canaan Partners is a Silicon Valley VC firm that has over $4.0 billion under management with a good portion of their investments going into seed / early stage companies. They have also set up offices in Israel to be closer to the StartUp Nation phenomena… Read More

July 16, 2016 @ 1:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Timothy Li of Kuber Financial and Tang Loaec of P2PConnect have joined together to create a new “P2P insurance JV” designed to bring “risk sharing” to American users. This is according to information provided by Li stating the pair decided to form a joint venture to… Read More