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Insurance IT leaders herald new era for digital customer experience

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The insurance industry is undergoing a sea change, with IT playing a crucial role in rolling out digital customer experiences for policyholders and agents, as in-person meetings all but vanish in the post-pandemic era. IT as industry differentiator Insurers and financial services firms like MassMutual, of Springfield, Mass.,

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Superscript, a bespoke insurance provider for SMEs, raises $54 million

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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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CIOs in financial services embrace gen AI — but with caution

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Highly regulated, customer-centric, and dependent on layers of human involvement and manual processes, financial services are ripe for automation through artificial intelligence (AI). Generative AI is starting off a new age of exploration in IT,” says Frank Schmidt, CTO at insurance firm Gen Re.

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How strategic partnerships are the key to AI-driven innovation

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But things have gotten a little more complicated now, as the large-scale roll-out of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has introduced the need for a multidisciplinary approach to innovation. This can be particularly challenging in heavily regulated industries such as healthcare, insurance, and finance.

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6 VCs explain why embedded insurance isn’t the only hot opportunity in insurtech

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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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Cowbell raises $100M to build out its AI-based cyber insurance platform for SMBs

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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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Insurify, a ‘virtual insurance agent,’ raises $100M Series B

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How many of us have not switched insurance carriers because we don’t want to deal with the hassle of comparison shopping? Insurify raises $23M Series A to add new coverage varietals, boost its marketing efforts. There are others in the insurtech space, but none that we know of currently tackling home, auto and life insurance.

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