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. Africa’s insurance sector is worth more than $68 billion in annual gross written premiums. However , only a fraction of personal insurance is sold without human intervention.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Keys to ascending the consumer-internet throne. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. Each stage of this evolution unlocked billions of dollars in value, and many of the names listed above remain the largest consumer internet companies today. More posts by this contributor. Justin Da Rosa.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Pie Insurance , a startup offering workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses, announced this morning that it has closed on $118 million in a Series C round of funding. Pie began selling its insurance policies in March 2018. We are riding that wave,” said Pie Insurance co-founder and CEO John Swigart. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Historically, falling bandwidth and smartphone costs along with improved Internet reliability helped lay the foundation for the recent Indian startup wave, according to Swaroop. And we noted in our growth-rate piece that Next Insurance raised $250 million last month , which has missed our attention.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Have you ever tried to check your insurance claim status? While some insurance carriers have made significant modifications courtesy of disruptive digitalization (we’ve already discussed this topic in our whitepaper), most companies trail behind. Insurants are not satisfied with their service providers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Naked , a South African insurtech company that helps consumers to insure their cars, homes, and valuables, has raised $17 million in Series B funding led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). However, only a fraction of personal insurance is sold without human intervention.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

There have been rare cases in the past, for instance, when Rocket Internet had to include Jumia’s financials in its yearly reports after going public. According to Dozie, the license means that Carbon’s customers are afforded additional protection through depositors’ insurance via the NDIC.

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Take for example the use of AI in deciding whether to approve a loan, a medical procedure, pay an insurance claim or make employment recommendations. Users needed modems and special software and accounts with internet providers. But gen AI will become ubiquitous and seamlessly woven into workflows, the way the internet is today.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The growth bid follows the planned introduction of new products in the market, including financial services and internet access hotspots, as Qotto evolves into an all-rounded essential services operator. Qotto said it has already sold thousands of life insurance contracts.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

11:11 Systems offers a wide array of connectivity services, including wide area networks and other internet access solutions that exceed the demanding requirements that a high-performance multi-cloud environment requires. We enable them to successfully address these realities head-on.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

And, given the incremental funding for fintechs in Africa over the years, capital injected into these startups is only likely to increase with deepening mobile phone usage and internet penetration. . It is also poised for greater growth as the adoption of lending, digital payments, banking and insurance services grows. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The world’s second largest internet market has delivered 43 startups in the new batch, another record figure in the history of the storied venture firm. billion people currently have access to insurance and some analysts say that digital firms could prove crucial in bringing these services to the masses.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

GenAI is a megatrend that rivals the evolution of the internet itself – and it is set to transform global enterprises and entire industries. Respondents represent 12 industries, among them banking, investment and insurance, manufacturing, automotive, retail, healthcare and the public sector. There is no going back.

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2024

GenAI is a megatrend that rivals the evolution of the internet itself and it is set to transform global enterprises and entire industries. Respondents represent 12 industries, among them banking, investment and insurance, manufacturing, automotive, retail, healthcare and the public sector. There is no going back.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Last week, I wrote four companies with an insurance technology angle. This is notable if you consider the fact that many general insurance technology companies have struggled over the past year. Then, midweek, I covered Pie Insurance’s massive $315 million Series D raise. One thing they all had in common? The Washington, D.C.,

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CTOvision

MAY 3, 2015

The post Complying With Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rules appeared first on CTOvision.com. Related articles. The HIMSS Version of Voter ID Laws (thehealthcareblog.com). Oregon's Health CO-OP Notifies Affected Plan Members Of Security Incident (prnewswire.com).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

I’ve been building technology businesses for more than 20 years: 15 years in software/internet and five in advanced hardware. Start communicating with investors now In case you need more capital than the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insures, get in touch with current investors and be transparent about your SVB exposure.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

announced] the launch of its insurance arm. Currently live are mobile and pet insurance products, with more to come in the first half of the year….This It also has acquired Commercial Travelers Life Insurance in an effort to expand its own life insurance offering nationwide.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The company counts SoftBank, Tiger Global, Times Internet, The Carlyle Group, Steadview Capital and Addition among its backers. Shares of online insurer Policybazaar, whose lock-in period for pre-IPO investors also lifts next month, have lost over 60% in value from the issue price. billion, only slightly above the $3.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Part 3 : When the Earth is gone, at least the internet will still be working. As government, and insurance money can take ages to arrive, the startup could be onto something. It’s all about the market, startups, and their backers, so it was perfect fare for our Wednesday episode, in which we dive deep into a single topic.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Because companies need federal deposit insurance in order to access the payment system the U.S. Robinhood in 2018 ran afoul of regulators for lacking the proper insurance to offer a checking account.). Nonbanks can apply to be an industrial loan company, or ILC, which allows them to issue loans and accept federally-insured deposits.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Tiger Global’s earliest portfolio investments on the continent were in consumer internet companies. Back then, a lot of people were not on the internet, so it was really about consumer services to get people on the internet,” said Opeyemi Awoyemi , whose company, Jobberman, received $1 million from Tiger Global.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Aside from scaling its security operations further, Upstream also intends to use the fresh funds to expand its offerings in data analytics, insurance telematics, predictive analytics and business intelligence, the company said. The Series C was led by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and was joined by new investors I.D.I.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

What it says it does : Building Plaid for insurance in Africa. Promises include : Curacel says it is building the rails to “make it easy and pleasant to get and use insurance in emerging markets and for the next billion Africans.” What it says it does: The company delivers toll-free internet apps. Website : [link].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The company received its license to operate as a full depository bank in Mexico, and is slowly working toward being the premier internet-based financial services provider for Mexico’s large and growing middle class, Sahagún said. “We are targeting a similar target market to Chime,” the albo founder and chief executive said.

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Mobilunity

DECEMBER 24, 2024

PRO TIP Insurers must act now: getting tech capabilities to the needed state will take years, and the industry is approaching a tipping point in which structures will shift very quickly. We’ve reviewed reports from McKinsey and Deloitte to explore how companies start driving growth through insurance modernization.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

now offer online appointments, and many patients are familiar with getting live medical advice over the internet. Insurance companies love this model because it is cheap to operate. Telehealth has taken off. Spurred by the pandemic, many doctors in the U.S. But patients bear the cost.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It remains at a relatively nascent phase expansion in the technology industry but is at the same time developed enough to have a 400-million-strong internet user base. Carro, which achieved unicorn status this year, offers an automotive marketplace in addition to supplementary products such as financing and insurance.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Considering that nearly 40 million people in Mexico (almost a third of the population) are unbanked, fintech has been a necessary vehicle for fresh routes for credit, insurance and remittances. And because many Mexicans have little trust in banks, the transparency of fintech options has played a big part in people adopting the new technology.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 14, 2025

The infrastructure operates within a virtual private cloud (VPC) containing public subnets in each Availability Zone, with an internet gateway providing external connectivity. The environment container has limited access to the rest of the ecosystem and the internet.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 13, 2021

The insurance industry is notoriously bad at customer experience. In the last few years, Chinese tech giants have been making massive strides at becoming the center of insurance innovation. To compete, insurance companies revolutionize the industry using AI, IoT, and big data. Not in China though. Why automate claims?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Her focus areas include high-growth software, marketplaces, and consumer internet. Their customers are reaping benefits: Think quick compensation for a flight delay, or outreach from an insurance company when a patient is having trouble resolving a problem.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

India’s Niyo has raised $100 million in a new financing round as the consumer-facing neobank platform looks to add lending and insurance to its offerings and make deeper inroads in the world’s second largest internet market. Accel and Lightrock India co-led the Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s Series C financing round.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

For product companies, understanding customer feedback is crucial,” says Aswini Thota, director of AI and data science at banking and insurance provider USAA. For example, some firms in the finance and insurance industries are using gen AI to assist underwriters evaluating prospective clients.

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 6, 2022

This infrastructure comprises a scalable and reliable network that can be accessed from any location with the help of an internet connection. It also provides patients with the option to share or keep their medical histories out of the hands of insurance companies or hospitals. Need for Cloud Solutions for Healthcare.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As he left for the day, he could be overheard muttering, “I hope there’s a bit of internet left when I come back.”. Insuring the doggie : Mike reports how pet insurance startups chase the market as pet ownership booms among Gen Z and Millennials. Take a breather, you can always implode with stress next week instead.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 16, 2020

Could the secret to building Internet-connected devices that balance utility, safety, security, and privacy reside in the offices of Forcite, an upstart motorcycle helmet maker in Australia? READ MORE ON SECURING THE INTERNET OF THINGS. Time for a Department of the Internet of Things? Have a Tesla Model 3?

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