Accelerator professional director Kobi Bendelak: During the two sessions, the start-ups raised over 40 million dollars * Lemonade founder Saniel Schrieber, at the event: the insurance companies have lost their lead of the foundation stone of the industry – data and statistics The second session of the Israeli insurtech accelerator, which was held on the initiative of the Ayalon insurance company and Insurtech Israel ended last week with an event with the participation of, amongst others, Insurance Commissioner Dr Moshe Bareket, Ayalon seniors including Chairman Dr Avigdor Kaplan and CEO Arik Yogev, Insurtech Israel CEO Kobi Bendelak, Lemonade founder…

Q&A with Joshua Behar, CEO Of Mobile2CRM What does Mobile2CRM do? Behar: Mobile2CRM is a technology innovator overcoming the organizational “blind spot“ created by employees using a personal cell phone for work. Mobile2CRM integrates cellular technology with CRM and other business systems capturing business-only communications. In recent years, business and work have become increasingly cellular-centered – a trend that dramatically accelerated in the past two years. While handling landline communications well enough, current corporate and organizational communications infrastructures are much less successful when it comes to cell phone business communications integration.  With over 60% of business and work-related communications these…

Lemonade recently acquired Metromile for US$500m. Metromile operates in the motor insurance sector, and this acquisition will enable Lemonade to make the transition from a young player to a major player in this sector. This acquisition reflects just one trend in the ongoing revolution in the insurance market and shows that the leading insurtech companies continue to grow. To date, the global insurtech sector has raised more than US$10bn since the beginning of 2021, an all-time record. A mapping of the Israeli insurtech companies that raised funds this year, prepared by Munich Re Israel representative Dikla Wagner, who leads technology…