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YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance

TechCrunch

Curacel , the YC-backed startup that is developing insurance infrastructure for the African market, has launched a new interface that allows digital businesses like those in retail, fintech, e-commerce and logistics to add insurance to their core products. Insurance companies were losing a lot of money to fraud.

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Gradient Ventures backs Axle’s ‘Plaid for insurance’ approach to data verification

TechCrunch

The inability to accurately assess risk for insurance purposes is costing the industry a lot of money. Earlier this year, State Farm reported that its property and casualty underwriting business took a $13 billion hit in 2022 due to “rapidly increasing claims severity and significant additions to prior accident year incurred claims.”

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State of IT jobs: Mixed signals, changes ahead

CIO

The industry saw unprecedented growth in certain areas — such as AI and ML — alongside massive layoffs from tech vendors and cooling (or even contracting) salaries for a wide range of IT roles. Recent layoffs have been cast in part as a corrective for that period, when the average tech salary increased nearly 9%.

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The Role of Due Diligence in Business Transactions

Strategy Driven

Due diligence involves reviewing information thoroughly before a transaction takes place. There are two types of due diligence. Hard DD investigates data and facts, including legal structures, ownership, securities laws compliance, stockholder agreements, insurance information, and regulations.

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EvolutionIQ secures $21M to streamline insurance claims processing with AI

TechCrunch

Processing claims at scale presents a challenge for insurers, particularly where the claims entail factors like complex underlying health conditions. A growing cohort of startups including Alan, Tractable and Snapsheet offer tools to help customers navigate through the insurance claims process. ” Accelerating insurance claims.

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Proptech in Review: Investors predict slower growth in 2023

TechCrunch

It’s not a huge stretch to say that today, as tech increasingly permeates property development and housing, few except those operating in the sector can truly pinpoint what’s happening in the fast-developing world of proptech. TC: There’s a lot of overlap between construction tech and proptech. And where do they overlap?

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Planck, the insurance data analytics platform, raises $20M growth round

TechCrunch

Planck , the AI-based data platform for commercial insurance underwriting, announced today it has raised a $20 million growth round. Planck said it currently works with “dozens of commercial insurance companies in the U.S.,” including more than half of the top-30 insurers. It will use its new funding to build its U.S.

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