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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. AI also helped agents to be more empathetic, researchers said, leading to more positive customer experiences.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Cultivating a culture of creators Power Home Remodeling’s business model is centered on remodeling the exterior of homes while its IT organization — what it calls the Business Technology (BT) Group — serves as the creative force behind a build-your-own software platform that operates in service to the business.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Organizing information from providers, insurers and patients not only takes a lot of time, but increases private healthcare costs. Smarter Health , a Singaporean-based startup, develops technology that allows smoother exchange of data between different parties in the healthcare system, improving patient care and reducing administrative costs.

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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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DECEMBER 1, 2022

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software In today’s digitalized world, customers value transparency and accessibility above all else. For over 130 years, Hastings Mutual Insurance Company has served and protected its clients throughout the Midwest.

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MARCH 19, 2024

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. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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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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MARCH 4, 2021

Insurance agents spend hours handling paperwork and grabbing client information over the phone. A new seed-stage startup, InsurGrid , has developed a software solution to help ease the process, and make it easier for agents to serve existing clients — and secure new ones. Image Credits: InsurGrid.

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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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MARCH 26, 2024

IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance. AIOps platforms are one relatively new driver of such partnerships. Last June, for example, Dun & Bradstreet launched D&B.AI

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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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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. 18), but those problems were resolved by the afternoon, the bank said.

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JUNE 14, 2021

million in seed funding, led by DisruptiveAI, Phoenix Insurance, AXA-backed venture builder Kamet , Moneta Seeds and private investors. The round will help the company bolster the predictive AI and machine learning algorithms that power nSure AI’s “first of its kind” fraud protection platform.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Shrems told TechCrunch he needed a system that was employee-focused, but found many of the HR software he interacted with to be “very complex”, with “a lot of features, a lot of functionalities focused on making life easier for HR managers”, but with little regard for ease of use by employees. For instance, in Saudi Arabia, palm.hr

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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.

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APRIL 5, 2023

Construction insurance company Billy announced today the closing of an additional $2.5 The company has two revenue models: First is a SaaS platform that collects, verifies and tracks compliance documents like business licenses and W9 forms for general contractors, developers and property managers.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moreover, four out of every five IT executives plan to leverage gen AI to augment and enhance developers’ productivity, with more than 40% of those IT leaders expecting to do so within the next year. in concert with Microsoft’s AI-optimized Azure platform. CarMax CITO Shamim Mohammed confirms his company was using OpenAI’s GPT-3.x

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Metromile , the pay-per-mile auto insurer that earlier this year laid off a third of its staff due to economic uncertainties caused by COVID-19, is taking the SPAC path to the public markets. Metromile is credited for disrupting some of the inefficiencies of the auto insurance business model, notably how consumers are charged.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Groundcover , a performance monitoring platform for cloud apps, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Zeev Ventures with participation from Angular Ventures, Heavybit and Jibe Ventures. million, which CEO Shahar Azulay says will be used to “raise awareness” of the platform. The reason?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

No-code is the name of the game in enterprise software , and today a startup called Ushur that has built a platform for any business to create its own AI-based customer communication flows with no coding required is announcing some funding to help fuel its growth.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

Created by developer who needed to test apps at scale, TestGrid is an on-demand platform that lets users run tests on websites and apps across browsers, operating systems. As a result, they needed to optimize their entire software architecture. But as they grow, the found that many infrastructure providers were too expensive.

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JUNE 7, 2022

In a business setting, factor analysis is often used to explore things like customer loyalty. This is often used to understand customer segments. It can be used to reveal structures in data — insurance firms might use cluster analysis to investigate why certain locations are associated with particular insurance claims, for instance.

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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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MAY 26, 2022

“We want to focus on building products and finding customers” while the startups are participating in its accelerator program, he insists. Its platform aims to enable businesses to host meetings and events in some of the world’s most unique venues. What it does: Software platform powering independent Medicare agents.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A startup with a freight shipping platform for small- and mid-sized shippers, MyCarrier raised $22 million in a venture round led by NewRoads Capital with participation from Greycroft and Lerer Hippeau. MyCarrier gives customers the ability to quote, ship and track a shipment, connecting them with carriers that meet specific shipping needs.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Back in 2018, Refael Angel, a former security software engineer at Intuit, had an idea for a new approach to protect encryption keys — the random string of bits created to scramble and unscramble data — on the cloud. In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens.

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MARCH 22, 2021

Currency devaluation is a common economic nightmare faced in most African countries and other developing countries worldwide. The second is lack of insurance which means people don’t have the confidence to join saving cycles. However, this isn’t a traditional insurance contract from an insurance company. .

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It’s developing a finance super app that is bringing together what founder and CEO Robert Cornish calls “the best of fintech for the customer.” That’s why you see a lot of platforms starting out with one thing and then trying to be a super app. Now meet Fierce , a new company out to change that. cash back on all spending.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

So, for instance, it’s not surprising that retirees represent the largest growth segment in Israel’s insurance sector. Yet the system for claiming pensions through insurance companies is known to be slow and cumbersome. Something had to give. So a new project was devised by the company’s digital and innovation section. “I

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JUNE 15, 2023

So she needs to keep tabs on the spectacular rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and its use cases, while also monitoring developments across topics that have been around for years, like big data, RFID and cybersecurity. The first isn’t about emerging tech, but modernizing the business and knowing the customer.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Coastal towns continue to allow widespread sprawl and development, chasing ever more property taxes and residents even as sea levels get ever more uncomfortably high. There are a lot of hard decisions that these communities must make,” he said, but “our software makes it a bit easier to do these things.”

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

A company may have a good contact center, but ideally they are able to help customers before they need to make a call. Operative Intelligence helps contact centers figure out what customers want more quickly, improving automated inquiries and cutting down on wait times.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

And even when approved, customers pay high interest rates that are up to 30% per year. It operates an asset-light model, in that it does not buy vehicles but instead has inked rental agreements with OEMs such as Toyota and Volkswagen to offer vehicles to gig workers, including insurance and maintenance. Image Credits: Kovi.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The platform launched Wednesday across all 50 states and is designed for any type of employee leave, like parental, medical, caregiver or bereavement. It factors in all company government and insurance benefits and manages all facets of the leave from compliance to claims management to payroll calculations. This includes a $5.5

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Alation’s platform organizes data across disparate systems. For example, the platform suggests ways customers can centrally manage their data and compliance policies through the use of integrations and data connectors. Image Credits: Alation. billion and growing toward $11.6 billion over the next four years.

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JANUARY 15, 2023

As reported by Life Insurance International: “Level has created a tech-driven underwriting process for early-stage fintech startups that is claimed to have brought new efficiency and speed to the debt-raising process. The startup later confirmed the development over an email.” Equity management platform Carta had a rough week.

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APRIL 24, 2023

Banks are more and more careful with their own funding of development projects, which means they will also slow down payments on their own side,” Constrafor CEO Anwar Ghauche told TechCrunch. million in equity and debt in 2022, and since then, Constrafor has grown from 15,000 customers to 23,000.

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