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AUGUST 10, 2021

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.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Sure , an insurance infrastructure startup, announced today that it has closed on $100 million in Series C funding at a $550 million valuation. Sure launched its first (enterprise SaaS) product in early 2016, and today counts traditional financial services and fintech companies alike among its customers. Berkley and Menlo Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. They originally started Sheltr, which connected customers with trained maintenance professionals and was acquired by Hippo in 2019. Startup insurance provider Vouch raises $90M, now valued at $550M.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

This morning Wunderite , a Boston-based software startup, announced that it has raised $3 million in an early-stage round led by Spark Capital. Wunderite builds and sells software designed to help insurance agencies more rapidly process insurance applications, and automate some of their processes.

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MARCH 13, 2024

So based on early results, the three functional areas where companies see the biggest productivity improvements are in customer service, software development, and general creative and knowledge work. Researchers from Stanford and MIT collaborated on a study, released last April, based on data from over 5,000 customer support agents.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In a recent survey by Zapier — not the most unbiased source, granted, given that the company sells automation software — about 44% of employees say that automation saves them time while almost a third (33%) say it enables them to accomplish more with fewer resources.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Insurance lags behind other financial services in the adoption of digital technologies. Granted, a few unicorns have popped up from the modern digital insurance space such as Tractable and Lemonade; however , this sector hasn’t raced to the stage as quickly as say, payments or lending. Image Credits: Root.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. 61% of respondents rated the performance of OSS as being superior compared to proprietary software.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In banking and financial services applications, for example, GenAI solutions are being developed to analyze customer data, market data, economic trends, and more to help support highly personalized insights and guidance. This can be particularly challenging in heavily regulated industries such as healthcare, insurance, and finance.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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JULY 31, 2023

Natural disasters have been increasing in frequency, severity, and diversity in recent years, pressuring insurers to be more efficient and to anticipate event and claim fallout. In his role, Vasagiri is responsible for the data and software assets deployed to Swiss Re’s clients, as well as the company’s overall data strategy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

But companies like Shepherd — and Blueprint Title earlier this week — are wagering on there being margin elsewhere in the insurance world to attack. For Shepherd, the construction market is its target, an industry that it intends to carve into starting with excess liability coverage.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

If you’ve ever had to file a claim with your insurance company, you know that it’s not exactly fun. And if you’ve ever had to file an auto or home insurance claim, you know that all the back and forth with your carrier and the various vendors can take up so much time.

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2024

Platforms support the software you’ve built to run your business. A platform not only runs that software, but it manages the services your apps need. The main issue here is that it drags down the actual business because an organization’s apps are increasingly how the business functions, and even what the business is to customers.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Construction insurance company Billy announced today the closing of an additional $2.5 The second model uses the data from the SaaS platform to operate a marketplace that provides insurance solutions. In construction tech, nobody has built workflows for the insurance industry,” Gutsa told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

The company claims it has increased operational productivity by over 20% at its initial customer sites. . The stats caught the eye of insurance companies and health-and-safety-conscious warehouse managers alike. The company told me it has grown “ at an unprecedented pace,” decreasing on-site injuries by more than 80%.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Lula , a Miami-based insurance infrastructure startup, announced today it has raised $18 million in a Series A round of funding. Existing backers such as Nextview Ventures and Florida Funders also put money in the round, in addition to a number of insurance and logistics groups such as Flexport. to supplement its supply of vehicles.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

million in seed funding, led by DisruptiveAI, Phoenix Insurance, AXA-backed venture builder Kamet , Moneta Seeds and private investors. The Tel Aviv-headquartered startup, which currently has 16 employees, provides fraud detection for high-risk digital goods, such as electronic gift cards, airline tickets, software and games.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

The company will soon be “rolling out an influencer campaign where creators will dive into #dolltok by building narratives around their #shoppergangers (dolls customized to their own unique shopper personas) in their miniature worlds,” according to the spokesperson. announced] the launch of its insurance arm.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Just four months after announcing $27 million in Series A funding , Overjet , a company developing dental artificial intelligence software, came forward again with another $42.5 Boston-based Overjet’s dental AI software supports dentists in understanding what the scans show with regard to disease identification and progression.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Hover — which has built a platform that uses eight basic smartphone photos to patch together a 3D image of your home that can then be used by contractors, insurance companies and others to assess a repair, price out the job, and then order the parts to do the work — has raised $60 million in new funding.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

CRM software provider Zendesk has decided to lay off 300 employees from its global workforce of 5,450 employees to reduce operating expenses, a recent filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showed. The decision comes just months after the company was acquired by a consortium of private equity firms for $10.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

is significant and growing, but the way that Americans go about getting much-needed medical supplies, particularly for those with chronic conditions, relies on outdated and clumsy sales mechanisms that often have very poor customer experiences. The home medical supply market in the U.S. million in a new seed round to pursue its goals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“For global customers in energy and infrastructure, Zeitview delivers advanced inspection software that improves asset performance and longevity while lowering operating cost.” The algorithms screen for anomalies such as damaged turbine blades and classify them, alerting customers to issues as they crop up.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

For payroll services company ADP, it has paved the way to becoming a SaaS provider capable of taking on big names in enterprise software. These HCM services include applicant tracking, compensation, talent, and learning management, as well as insurance and retirement services. An early partner of Amazon, the Roseburg, N.J.-based

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It factors in all company government and insurance benefits and manages all facets of the leave from compliance to claims management to payroll calculations. We talked to hundreds of employees and HR managers across all industries, and to everyone, it is a nightmare.

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MARCH 6, 2024

An engineer by training, he started his career interning at semiconductor companies, then switched to software and was an early employee and co-founder of smaller companies in infrastructure and security that were later acquired. You can generate output from expensive software engineers making $300,000 to $400,000 a year using Copilot.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

For companies in India, founders no longer have to spend three months away from their customers or teams. Covid has also taught us that building a program that is remote and more software based makes YC more accessible to founders around the globe,” the firm said in a statement to TechCrunch. Its app has been downloaded over 1.4

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JULY 7, 2022

Also among Adaptive’s backers is an unnamed construction accounting firm with 100 customers across the country. . Put simply, Adaptive’s goal is to automate spend management, and thus save its customers time and money while delivering real-time reporting and insights. And then of course at the end, we’ll let them pay.”.

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APRIL 6, 2022

He also added insult to injury by days later publicly accusing affected workers of “stealing” from their colleagues and customers by being unproductive. Many workers reported that they initially found out by seeing a severance check in their Workday accounts — the payroll software the company uses.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

There’s an industry-wide push to reduce technical and data debt and reallocate those resources toward building the future, Conyard says. “CIOs From a people perspective, analytical and quantitative skills are now more pressing than software engineering skills,” Krantz states.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

x natural language model on pilots well before Microsoft’s highly publicized OpenAI investment and is moving full steam ahead on streamlining content creation for car research pages and encouraging its programmers to scale use of GPT-4 to further enhance the customer experience. in concert with Microsoft’s AI-optimized Azure platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

“Greece is one of the global superpowers in shipping, so when I was working in consulting, I became close to the industry and really fell in love with it.”. After consulting, Diakogiannis spent time in venture capital, were he saw how labor marketplaces are disrupting industries like construction, manufacturing, oil and gas.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Justin Da Rosa. Contributor.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Almost two months after cloud-based CRM software provider Salesforce announced it would be cutting around 950 jobs , the company has announced it will lay off about 10% of its workforce, roughly 8,000 employees, and close some offices as part of a restructuring plan. CRM Systems, Technology Industry.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Health care IT companies were pushed into a new frontier — needing to facilitate a vastly different operating environment for their customers, dealing with surges in claims, billing, staffing, video appointments, vaccine scheduling and many more dynamics. Here are five predictions for where the health care IT industry is headed this year.

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