TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Superscript , an insurance broker and tech platform targeting SMEs and “high-growth” tech firms, has raised £45 million ($54 million) in a Series B round of funding. Founded out of London in 2015, Superscript constitutes two core insurance businesses: an online-only “self-serve” platform that’s available to U.K.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

It found that [a]reas with lower educational attainment showed somewhat higher LLM adoption rates in consumer complaints. As reported in the Wall Street Journal , insurer Allstate is using genAI to make 50,000 emails to customers a day more empathetic on behalf of its 23,000 claims representatives.

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MARCH 25, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly shifted from buzz to business necessity over the past yearsomething Zscaler has seen firsthand while pioneering AI-powered solutions and tracking enterprise AI/ML activity in the worlds largest security cloud.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Processing claims at scale presents a challenge for insurers, particularly where the claims entail factors like complex underlying health conditions. A growing cohort of startups including Alan, Tractable and Snapsheet offer tools to help customers navigate through the insurance claims process. ” Accelerating insurance claims.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

If you think embedded insurance is the only hot thing in insurtech these days, we’ve got a surprise in store for you: While it’s true that startups that help sell insurance together with other products and services are enjoying tailwinds, there are plenty of other opportunities in the space, several investors told TechCrunch+.

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CIO

MARCH 27, 2025

Are you using artificial intelligence (AI) to do the same things youve always done, just more efficiently? Attendees also saw demos of Code Harbor , EXLs generative AI-powered code migration tool, and EXLs Insurance LLM , a purpose-built solution to the industrys challenges around claims adjudication and underwriting.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

More posts by this contributor A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs 5 factors founders must consider before choosing their VC For artificial intelligence, 2022 was a year of breakthroughs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

The company creates optical sensors and novel classification systems based on machine learning algorithms to identify and track insects in real time. That data is turned into audio and analyzed by machine learning algorithms in the cloud. The key here: real-time information.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 7, 2025

Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) is a leading strategic data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry, empowering clients to strengthen operating efficiency, improve underwriting and claims outcomes, combat fraud, and make informed decisions about global risks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

DigiSure, a digital insurance company that caters to modern mobility form factors like peer-to-peer marketplaces, is officially coming out of stealth to announce a $13.1 DigiSure says it goes beyond credit and driving history to give users a more personalized quote, and in the process helps operators lower their own insurance costs.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. Marsh McLennan created an AI Academy for training all employees.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Pula , a Kenyan insurtech startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a Series A investment of $6 million. Agriculture insurance has traditionally relied on farm business. or Europe with typically large farms, an average insurance premium is $1,000.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Nate Melby, CIO of Dairyland Power Cooperative, says the Midwestern utility has been churning out large language models (LLMs) that not only automate document summarization but also help manage power grids during storms, for example. The thing about the AI stuff is it’s really cheap, if you do it right,” Beswick says.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

He also said the company “ continues to meet and exceed growth and revenue targets” with its first product, a service for comparing and buying car insurance. AI-powered Jerry raises $28M to help you save money on car insurance. Although Jerry also offers a similar product for home insurance, its focus is on car ownership.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Alex Dalyac is the CEO and co-founder of Tractable , which develops artificial intelligence for accident and disaster recovery. Here’s how we did it, and what we learned along the way. In 2013, I was fortunate to get into artificial intelligence (more specifically, deep learning) six months before it blew up internationally.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

New York-based insurance provider Travelers, with 30,000 employees and 2021 revenues of about $35 billion, is in the business of risk. So if you put it all together, every one of those transactions or interactions can be reinvented through a lens of technology, AI or machine learning.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Resistant AI , which uses artificial intelligence to help financial services companies combat fraud and financial crime — selling tools to protect credit risk scoring models, payment systems, customer onboarding and more — has closed $16.6 million in Series A funding.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2024

As explained in a previous post , with the advent of AI-based tools and intelligent document processing (IDP) systems, ECM tools can now go further by automating many processes that were once completely manual. Consider an insurance company corporate inbox that accepts claims, underwriting, and policy servicing submissions.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. Marsh McLellan created an AI Academy for training all employees.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2025

By leveraging AI technologies such as generative AI, machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), and computer vision in combination with robotic process automation (RPA), process and task mining, low/no-code development, and process orchestration, organizations can create smarter and more efficient workflows.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2024

What if artificial intelligence (AI) could prevent 1,000 potential outages and improve IT service health and delivery by more than 75%? The insurance company decided to migrate from on-premises BMC Remedy to cloud-based BMC Helix ITSM and Discovery. IT teams would sleep better, but thats just the start.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2024

>To help insurance brokerages tie in disparate systems to manage their operations and increase employee productivity, CRM software provider Salesforce has introduced a new offering in preview, the Financial Services Cloud. In addition, Financial Services Cloud can be used to service property and casualty insurance clients as well.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals is announcing a significant round of growth funding. You’re dealing with so many touch points with your insurance, so many people that need to come and check things out again.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The funding was led by Tokio Marine, Japan’s first insurance company, and life insurance leader MetLife through its subsidiary MetLife Next Gen Ventures. Embedded means insurance or protection products that are embedded into the customer experience as they buy a product or sign up for a service.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2024

But it doesn’t have to be that way because enterprise content management systems have made great strides in that same timeframe, including with new artificial intelligence technology that makes it far easier for employees to find and make the best use of all the content the organization owns, no matter if it’s text, audio, or video.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 13, 2025

DeepSeek-R1 , developed by AI startup DeepSeek AI , is an advanced large language model (LLM) distinguished by its innovative, multi-stage training process. Instead of relying solely on traditional pre-training and fine-tuning, DeepSeek-R1 integrates reinforcement learning to achieve more refined outputs.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Crafting the Future: The Significance of Selecting the Right Insurance Executive In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving business environment, securing the right insurance executive is more than a mere hiring decision —it’s a pivotal investment in the company’s future.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

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. Thats the mindset we need to bring into every business, whether were selling insurance, financial services, or something else entirely.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

The demand for more and enhanced automated experiences in our daily lives is growing, and the insurance sector is no exception. This points to a changing market where consumers have higher and different expectations for insurance experiences, based partly on the ease with which they now do other tasks digitally, like shopping and banking.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2024

Intelligent document processing (IDP) is changing the dynamic of a longstanding enterprise content management problem: dealing with unstructured content. Faster and more accurate processing with IDP IDP systems, which use artificial intelligence technology such as large language models and natural language processing, change the equation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Igloo develops its insurance products and then partners with insurers who underwrite their policies. Igloo currently works with 20 global, regional and local insurers across Southeast Asia. It distributes its insurance products through partnerships, and is partnered with over 55 companies in 7 countries.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Eightfold AI, a startup which uses deep learning and artificial intelligence to help companies find, recruit and retain workers , said on Thursday it has raised $220 million in a new round as it looks to accelerate its growth. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the Series E round of the five-year-old startup, which is now valued at $2.1

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

All said, Assured Allies joins with insurtech companies around the world that did manage to secure some decent funding recently, including Equisoft , Naked Insurance , Turaco and Acko. It has been proven to reduce the cost of long-term insurance claims by roughly 20%, Nahir told TechCrunch. Akilia Partners and Samsung Next.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Artificial intelligence: Driving ROI across the board AI is the poster child of deep tech making a direct impact on business performance. Satellite technology: Rapid growth in satellite constellations benefits telecom (remote connectivity), insurance and agriculture (high-resolution crop monitoring and disaster assessment).

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 11, 2025

DeepSeek-R1 is a large language model (LLM) developed by DeepSeek AI that uses reinforcement learning to enhance reasoning capabilities through a multi-stage training process from a DeepSeek-V3-Base foundation. We demonstrate how to deploy these models on SageMaker AI inference endpoints.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Founded in 2018 by Alex Thomson, Sumarie Greybe and Ernest North, Naked is a digital insurance platform covering cars, content, homes and standalone items. The company says it employs artificial intelligence to create new processes and experiences for its customers. Insurtech is hot on both sides of the Atlantic.

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