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Lemonade leans on Aviva to bring its next-gen insurance platform to the UK
New York-based insurance giant Lemonade is officially launching in the U.K., its fourth market in Europe and fifth overall, with a little help from one of the oldest and largest insurance providers in
Daily Crunch: Mac sales down 10%, iPhones up 3% — Breaking down Apple’s quarterly numbers
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Lemonade closes on acquisition of insurtech Metromile, promptly lays off about 20% of its staff
Publicly traded Lemonade has laid off about 60 employees of Metromile, the auto insurtech company it recently acquired — adding to the volatility the technology sector has seen over the past 18 mont
Anthemis, Airbase and Ramp will talk about balancing runway and growth in competitive sectors at Disrupt
How long is your startup’s runway? It’s an important question and an essential metric for every early-stage founder to know. But for startups wading into hot sectors with big markets — fintech a
Casper king Philip Krim is getting into the insurance business
Since departing his role as Casper CEO in 2021, Philip Krim has spent the majority of his time investing and incubating companies via Montauk Ventures. The latest is an insurance company called Ranger
Tusk Venture Partners just closed its third fund with $140M, double its predecessor fund
Tusk Venture Partners, the now six-year-old, New York-based early-stage venture firm co-founded by longtime political strategist Bradley Tusk and former Blackstone director Jordan Nof, has closed its
Bradley Tusk is seizing the moment: ‘We’re investing, we’re incubating, we’ve got SPACs’
Whether or not we’re at some kind of tipping point right now, venture investors, old and new, have done very well in recent years, with their limited partners notching the biggest gains in decad
Empathy raises $30M for a personal assistant that helps with the practical and emotional process of bereavement
Death is one of the hardest things to cope with in life, both from an emotional and organizational standpoint. And what’s worse is that the latter of these is inevitably compounded by the fact t
What happens when Wall Street falls out of love with your sector?
Either the neoinsurance companies' long-term models will come to fruition thanks to large cash balances providing runway to prove their point, or Wall Street is correct -- they were always overvalued.
A lot of cash and little love: An insurtech story
The players in the space that we can name and track are generally cash-rich and market-sentiment poor.
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What are the most important factors when you’re pitching your startup for fundraising? What questions come to the minds of the VCs you’re pitching? How do you get the deal across the finis
Short seller says Lemonade website bug exposed insurance customers’ account data
An activist short seller has written a letter to the chief executive of insurance giant Lemonade with details of an “accidentally discovered” security flaw that exposes customers’ ac
Next Insurance raises $250M, doubling its valuation to $4B in under a year
Next Insurance recently announced that it has raised a $250 million round, valuing the SMB-focused insurance provider at $4 billion. The company last raised another $250 million in September 2020, at
Insuretech startup Counterpart raises $10M in funding round led by Valor Equity Partners
Insuretech startup Counterpart, has raised $10 million in funding led by Valor Equity Partners. Also participating was Susa Ventures and Felicis Ventures. Counterpart works in the “management li
Investor Alexa von Tobel on the biggest driver of social media-fueled stock trading
Alexa von Tobel has always felt strongly that too many people are shut out of the stock market. She felt this as a 23-year-old who didn’t have $5,000 to open a brokerage account. She felt it whi
Hot IPOs hang onto gains as investors keep betting on tech
How many recent tech IPOs are down from their opening price? We looked at 14 debuts from the last year to find out.
Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change
But it’s been hard to argue against this position in the last 10 years, as the country powered ahead, famously producing ground-breaking startups like Waze, which was eventually picked up by Google
One final $100M ARR company and the startups we want to meet in 2021
As we head toward the exits of 2020, we have one more name to add to our roll call of private companies that have reached the $100 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) milestone. Well, one and a hal
Lemonade launches its renters insurance in France
Lemonade is launching its renters insurance in France. This is the company’s third European launch after the Netherlands and Germany. Originally from the U.S., Lemonade is now a public company with