Lemonade, the insurance company powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics, announced it is readying ‘Lemonade Car’ for launch within the year. Today’s news marks the company’s third expansion into a major new insurance category in less than 12 months. The company started with homeowners products, adding pet insurance in the second half of 2020, and term life insurance in the first half of 2021. The launch of Lemonade Car will allow both existing and new customers to bundle their home, pet, and life policies with their car insurance. The US car insurance industry is estimated to be about $300…
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Q&A with Ronnen Fischer, CO-CEO at Insurtix Why are Insurers worldwide failing when trying to renew their legacy core systems? Fischer: To understand the challenge in existing systems in insurance companies, one must review the history of these systems. Insurance companies’ information systems, are the result of centuries of pre-computer activity, based on written forms that are, in most cases very neatly filed by topic (policy type and unique number); not necessarily by customer, and not centralized by any criteria known to us today in current information systems world. In the beginning, when information systems were being introduced to the…
Next Insurance announced a $250 million new funding round led by FinTLV Ventures and Battery Ventures with participation from CapitalG, Group 11, Zeev Ventures, Founders Circle and G Squared bringing the company’s valuation to $4 billion and total funding raised to more than $880 million. The new financing follows a momentous six months during which Next Insurance announced two acquisitions, added new strategic partners, and doubled its gross written premium. FinTLV Ventures founder and managing partner Gil Arazi and Battery Ventures general partner Michael Brown, will join as board observers. “Next Insurance’s full-stack approach to providing coverage for small businesses has created a radical paradigm shift in…
BitSight, the Standard in Security Ratings, and Kovrr, a leader in data-driven cyber risk modeling, are furthering their partnership and today announced Financial Quantification for Enterprise Cyber Risk—a product that provides CISOs and Chief Risk Officers an easier, more efficient and repeatable means to financially quantify their cyber risk and report to senior executives and board members. Developed using Kovrr’s multiple underlying cyber risk models that analyze different categories of loss scenarios, the BitSight Financial Quantification for Enterprise Cyber Risk product calculates an organization’s financial exposure to cyber risk. The turnkey solution enables on-demand analysis and complements the cybersecurity performance measurements…
Q&A with Ilya Shapira, Emnotion Founder What does Emnotion do? Shapira: Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get. Weather forecasting, synoptic – up to 5 days effective. Climate is actually all forecasts beyond synoptic range. Emnotion actually closes the gap between weather and climate forecasting globally, so our clients get what they expect. We develop new approaches and models for making climate forecasts as reliable as available synoptic forecasts. Our solutions include Big Data analysis, Machine Learning, GIS. Over 200K virtual weather stations connected into unique neural network for detecting “butterfly effects”. We call it Climate…
KAR Global (NYSE: KAR), a leading operator of digital marketplaces for wholesale used vehicles, announces a strategic investment and North American commercial partnership with Ravin AI. Ravin is an international provider of automated, mobile and CCTV-based artificial intelligence solutions for vehicle inspections serving diverse fleet, insurance and remarketing customers around the world. The partnership enhances KAR’s data-driven digital capabilities and will enable the seamless flow of inspection information, data and images throughout the entire remarketing lifecycle for the company’s customers. “Advanced, integrated inspection capabilities are core to our customers’ success in the new digital age,” said Peter Kelly, president of KAR…
Q&A with Tzvika Agassi, Jastok CEO What does Jastok do? Agassi: Jastok SAAS system allows insurers representatives (claims, customer service, sales, loss control) to have video calls with the insured in a very simple and easy way with no need to install any app by the insured nor any software by the rep. We have launched the system recently and we have our first customer – a US-based insurer. A few more pilots are in our pipeline with insurers from the USA, Mexico, Europe and Israel What are the differences between Jastok and other video conversation systems? Agassi: Jastok…
Next Insurance, the digital insurtech company transforming small business insurance, today announced a partnership with Amazon Business to provide eligible members the opportunity to access customized small business insurance. This partnership will allow Business Prime members to easily obtain a quote from Next Insurance and quickly purchase General Liability, Professional Liability, Workers’ Compensation, Commercial Auto, and Tools and Equipment insurance coverage. Historically, the process for purchasing business insurance has been a significant pain point for small business owners, with large insurers taking a one-size-fits-all approach. As a result, many small businesses end up with a poor customer experience and paying more for coverage that often…
Q&A with Oren Levy, Comprendo.ai CEO * What does Comprendo.ai do? Levy: Comprendo.AI has a patent pending proprietary platform for accurate and compliant Artificial Intelligence (AI) models that explain the reasoning behind their decisions. * Why is it important to be able to explain the AI decisions? Levy: There is no future for the use of artificial intelligence without the ability to explain the decisions these algorithms make. The ability to explain AI decisions is important because it allows the companies that use these models as well as anyone else influenced by AI driven decisions to trust these decisions. Regulators…
The Trade and Economic Mission of Israel and the Kenya Fintech Online Campaign 2021 have chosen Facetrom as one of the top Israeli fintech innovations. Facetrom has been chosen with the biggest Israelis Fintech and Insurtech companies, such as Payoneer ($3.3B), Curv (acquired by PayPal), the Insurtech Company Insfocus, and other Israeli top innovative fintech companies.