Remove Insurance Remove Marketing Remove Technical Review
article thumbnail

8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

TechCrunch

Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn? Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. Here’s the not-so-good news: Companies can pass the business test, but fail TDD.

article thumbnail

After raising $10M, Breeze breathes fresh air into a stagnant disability insurance market

TechCrunch

Working in the world of disability insurance for a decade, Colin Nabity felt not everyone could access this type of insurance due to its nature of it being difficult to understand and underwrite. Disability and critical illness insurance is typically income protection should someone be too sick or hurt to work.

Insurance 249
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance

TechCrunch

Curacel , the YC-backed startup that is developing insurance infrastructure for the African market, has launched a new interface that allows digital businesses like those in retail, fintech, e-commerce and logistics to add insurance to their core products. without the outsized market of South Africa.

Insurance 232
article thumbnail

Fintech Roundup: Due diligence makes a comeback and a former Better.com employee speaks out

TechCrunch

Investors appeared to be backing some startups in part due to FOMO, and that’s not necessarily a good thing. Last year, it was truly a founders’ market, meaning that terms were more founder-friendly than ever. billion in seed through late-stage venture funding. And everyone was like, ‘yeah, that makes sense, let’s invest in this.’ ”.

article thumbnail

EvolutionIQ secures $21M to streamline insurance claims processing with AI

TechCrunch

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.

Insurance 233
article thumbnail

The hamburger model is a winning go-to-market strategy

TechCrunch

David is passionate about open-source and infrastructure software and previously worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley. Because the best go-to-market (GTM) strategies for startups are like hamburgers: The bottom bun: Bottom-up GTM. The hamburger go-to-market strategy. More posts by this contributor.

Marketing 303
article thumbnail

Ascend raises $5.5M to provide a BNPL option for commercial insurance

TechCrunch

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. While working with insurance companies they recognized how fast the insurance industry was modernizing, yet insurance sellers still struggled with customer experiences due to outdated payments processes.

Insurance 209