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As Next Insurance makes its first acquisition, insurtech looks energetic

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Next Insurance , a startup that competes in the small business (SMB) insurance market, announced this morning that it has acquired its first company. Next Insurance raised $250 million earlier this year at a valuation of $2 billion , making it one of the richest startups to compete in the broad insurtech niche.

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Why thinking like a tech company is essential for your business’s survival

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For us, that means remembering our core mission: providing risk management and insurance solutions to our customers in a way that helps them protect their businesses and families. And then, they start moving in that direction while staying flexible enough to adapt as the market evolves. They place bets.

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A Strava co-founder races into a lucrative market – lending against life insurance

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Before that, Shaw helped start insurance software outfit Guidewire. Again, he helped the company grow to a different level with his engineering, analytics and marketing chops before it went public in 2012. The current lending market today against that $1.1 There’s a trillion dollars of cash value in whole life in the U.S

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Planck, the insurance data analytics platform, raises $20M growth round

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Planck , the AI-based data platform for commercial insurance underwriting, announced today it has raised a $20 million growth round. Planck said it currently works with “dozens of commercial insurance companies in the U.S.,” including more than half of the top-30 insurers. It will use its new funding to build its U.S.

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Cowbell raises $100M to build out its AI-based cyber insurance platform for SMBs

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Cybercrime is on the rise, and today an insurance startup that’s built an artificial intelligence-based platform to help manage the risks from that is announcing a big round of funding to meet the opportunity. “Underwriting cyber insurance for SMEs is a more dire prospect than for large enterprises,” he said. .

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FintechOS nabs $60M for a low-code approach to modernizing legacy banking and insurance services

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“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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Business intelligence and analytics firm Pyramid Analytics raises $100M

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Business intelligence is an increasingly well-funded category in the software-as-a-service market. Pervasive BI remains elusive, but statistics on the category reveal that about a third of employees use BI tools for analytics to inform strategy. “In short, data teams in enterprise analytics are stuck in the past.

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