TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million seed round to further its insurance payments platform that combines financing, collections and payables. While working with insurance companies they recognized how fast the insurance industry was modernizing, yet insurance sellers still struggled with customer experiences due to outdated payments processes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a cliff last year. However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Last year was a good 12 months of firsts for African tech startups. It turns out that while later-stage investors, mostly international VC firms, grabbed headlines by writing immense checks, pre-seed and seed-stage investors were instrumental to the growth of the continent’s tech ecosystem. billion, according to data from Partech.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

That’s where Puls Technologies come in. Puls raises $50 million for in-home technical support. Puls Technologies app. Image Credits: Puls Technologies. It saw some of that demand related to the global pandemic, when the need for home repairs increased due to people spending more time at home.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

David is passionate about open-source and infrastructure software and previously worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley. Because the best go-to-market (GTM) strategies for startups are like hamburgers: The bottom bun: Bottom-up GTM. The top bun: Enterprise sales. The hamburger go-to-market strategy.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To ensure vendor relationship help their organizations achieve their goals, IT leaders should establish a comprehensive technology vendor management strategy focused on maximizing fit and value. A few years ago, supply-chain snags had CIOs looking for new technology,” Beasley says.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

CEO Ryan Anderson said that the proceeds will be put toward pursuing new market opportunities, specifically in the nonprofit, insurance, and public sectors, and “further evolv[ing] the [Filevine platform] to meet changing legal demands.” “[I] built Filevine alongside co-founders to fill this void in the enterprise.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. Rising software costs create headaches Another example is Ameritas Life Insurance, which has operations in the US, but the current 3.7%

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” But it’s not the only one.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. The company is embedding AI into each level of the tech stack it sells to customers, he says. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

And lastly, wealth tech made an impressive showing in terms of investor interest. Wealth tech companies brought in $1.7 Either way, let’s hope 2023 brings with it greater due diligence, less ego and more viable business models. announced] the launch of its insurance arm.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Nigeria-based health tech startup Helium Health has acquired Meddy , a Qatar-headquartered and UAE-based doctor booking platform for an undisclosed amount. So, for enterprise clients to get a holistic EMR experience, they will need to stack these different products on top of each other. Helium Health. “You

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

One of the biggest challenges enterprises face is processing all the data that they gather, and — by extension — deriving insights from that data. “We conducted several successful pilots with banks and insurance companies,” Danilos said. ” Processing data at scale. Image Credits: Enso.

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In recent Gartner research, C-suite executives from all lines of business reported that “technology remains probably the biggest factor in achieving new business outcomes,” Tyler says. That is enabling them to even further increase their overview of the entire enterprise. But everybody’s priority is a technology priority.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. ’s auto-enrollment provisions (among others), will make 401k plans more impactful at the lower end of the market, and Human Interest is well-positioned to execute.”.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Layoffs to cost Zendesk $28 million The layoffs are estimated to set Zendesk back by about $28 million, primarily due to costs incurred on severance payments and employee benefits, the SEC filing showed. It’s a good bet that tech companies that haven’t yet laid off employees are carefully considering whether or not to do so.

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

Across the world, climate change has bitten hard into the economies of tech-centric California, again due to wildfires. So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. But Spain’s predicament isn’t unique.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Koop Technologies (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) — Presenter: Sergey Litvinenko, co-Founder and CEO. “Koop Technologies is an insurance platform for autonomous vehicles and robotics. Koop provides autonomy insurance through data collection and proprietary analysis, wrapped up in the UX/UI provided by the portal.”

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Financial services institutions need the ability to analyze and act on massive volumes of data from diverse sources in order to monitor, model, and manage risk across the enterprise. Cloudera offers an enterprise data platform to comprehensively support risk transformation . Cloudera is that platform. End-to-end Data Lifecycle.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

On top of this, combined with Laika’s other co-founders Sam Li and Eva Pittas (respectively the co-CEO and COO), the three (pictured above) have collective exposure and experience across insurance, data science and risk protection that speaks to the bigger opportunity that the company is tackling.

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CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2022

One of the most important parameters for measuring the success of any technology implementation is the return on investment (ROI). Providing a compelling ROI on technology initiatives also puts CIOs in a stronger position for securing support and funds from the business for future projects. Align projects with business goals.

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Tenable

JANUARY 12, 2024

In addition, cyber insurance demand is forecast to grow robustly. Advances in technology will break down barriers to entry – borders, languages, skill sets – opening alternate revenue streams, particularly in the cyber domain, and allowing transnational criminal networks to spread,” the report reads. And much more! billion in 2023.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

With the market for call center software estimated to be worth tens of billions, there’s a strong incentive to crack the code — or to come close, at least. for health insurance). One 2019 survey found that 88% of people prefer speaking to a live service agent instead of navigating an automated system. Image Credits: PolyAI.

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CIO

AUGUST 24, 2022

One of the most important relationships a technology leader can forge is with the chief human resources officer (CHRO). In addition, in a tight talent market, IT must rely heavily on HR to gain an edge in recruiting and retaining valuable IT talent. Honing strategic hiring priorities. Principal Financial Group.

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Trigent

MARCH 29, 2023

Modern enterprises are on their way to upgrading automation capabilities beyond conventional automation of manual tasks. Gartner predicts the market for software enabling hyperautomation to grow at a CAGR of 11.9 percent, touching almost $1.04 The answer lies in hyperautomation!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

DeepSee.ai , a startup that helps enterprises use AI to automate line-of-business problems, today announced that it has raised a $22.6 The company argues that it offers enterprises a different take on process automation. million Series A funding round led by led by ForgePoint Capital. argues that what it does is different.

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CIO

APRIL 12, 2022

Accenture was the only IT service provider that performed well across all market segments that Everest Group evaluates. Beating or meeting this performance will require similar persistence on capability development and value proposition across markets.”. There were no ‘also rans,’” Singh says. Top 10 IT service providers of the year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

“Through our work on the visual privacy side we identified a critical gap in the market for services that allow businesses and governments to manage visual data protection at scale on security footage. On top of that is what Randall calls a layer of “intelligent tools” — letting users quickly review and edit results.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

This week, we published a four-part series about how Klaviyo co-founders Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen bootstrapped their startup into an e-commerce marketing automation platform now valued at $4.15 Part 2: How Klaviyo used data and no-code to transform owned marketing. Part 3: Marketing in 2021 is emotional and not just transactional.

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CIO

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The company just raised a $3 million seed round to continue building its tech and rolling out beyond its first set of beta customers. MTech Capital — a VC fund focusing on insurance tech — led the funding round, and its insurance focus suggests the direction Voxel has been moving with its technology.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Fund III’s limited partners include Black Kite Investments, the family office of Singaporean businessman Koh Bon Hwee; Wasson Enterprises, the family office of former Walgreens Boots Alliance chief executive officer Greg Wasson; and PIDC, the investment arm of Taiwan-based retail conglomerate Uni-President Enterprises Corp.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Today, an insurance startup called Kettle that believes it has built a better product — specifically, reinsurance underwriting product to insure insurers — to account for catastrophic events like these, by way of better data science, is announcing some funding on the heels of (sadly) more need for its services.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Go on, then, here’s a few more stories (and some delightfully weird music by Cosmo Sheldrake to go with it): Ramp ramps rev growth : Mary Ann reports that Ramp reports accelerating revenue growth , showing that fintech companies with good product-market fit still have plenty of growth in them. Can Medicare save the insurtech market?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Last month, enterprise reporter Ron Miller spoke to executives who’ve managed acquisitions to learn about how they oversee the process. The deal may serve as a reminder that bad times don’t last forever, and if your business tanks due to market conditions, those old conditions may come back.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

While most startups today are creating software, not every upstart enterprise is taking a code-only approach to building a business. In more technical parlance, Albedo wants to provide 10-centimeter visual imagery and 2-meter thermal imagery. There’s some tech risk to what Albedo aims to do, however.

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