EC insurtech

Some thoughts on AI aesthetics, the challenge of uninsurability, and how to pitch a biotech startup to non-experts.

Allianz Direct, a digital-first German subsidiary of the insurance giant, has acquired the French home insurance business of ailing insurtech Luko for €4.3 million (around $4.65 million).

While Luko could still sell itself, it seems less likely to receive a “very competitive offer.”

Insurtech has had a rocky few years. Several startups in the space raised a lot of money and tried their luck on the public markets, but found that investors were…

German insurtech company Getsafe is still bullish about direct-to-consumer insurance, but others are moving away from this business model.

It’s not all rosy for companies that put growth first back when it was sexy to reach for the skies, and now find themselves in a market that favors a…

The value of the global cyber insurance market reached $13.33 billion in 2022 and is projected to soar to $84.62 billion by 2030.

If you only tracked American insurtech companies that went public recently, you might think insurtech is in its flop era. Thankfully, that’s not true.

The rise of FinOps already fueled multiple acquisitions, including IBM’s plan to acquire Apptio for a whopping $4.6 billion, but there’s more to come.

The usual corollary of risk is insurance against it; but when it comes to cloud downtime, the insurance sector hasn’t fully caught up yet. 

How is the economy affecting insurance purchase decisions? Will this make B2B companies more appealing to VCs than their B2C peers?

Insurtech companies can leverage data in this way to make the process more efficient for both the insurer and the insured.

According to David Wechsler, a principal at OMERS Ventures, “having an embedded strategy is not required for venture funding.”

On a surface level, usage-based insurance makes a lot of sense. But differentiating users also raises all sorts of questions on what’s fair, and where usage-based insurance is heading next.

Embedded insurance — selling coverage at the same time as another product or service — is on the rise. Are investors bullish on the insurtech subsector?

Seeing significant M&A activity and repricing in the public insurtech cohort left us wondering about their private peers: Are the same trends at play and to what extent?

In-home care is nothing new. In the 1930s, over 40% of physician-patient encounters took place in the home, but by the 1980s, that figure dropped to under 1%.