TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Founded in 2018 by Alex Thomson, Sumarie Greybe and Ernest North, Naked is a digital insurance platform covering cars, content, homes and standalone items. Africa’s insurance sector is worth more than $68 billion in annual gross written premiums. However , only a fraction of personal insurance is sold without human intervention.

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Trigent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Usage-based insurance, often referred to as UBI, has shot to popularity due to its immense potential for insurers when it comes to customization and cost savings. In-car technologies and the surge in connected cars significantly contribute to the growing market size of usage-based insurance. percent between 2023 and 2032.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

Wefox is a digital insurer focused on personal insurance products, such as household insurance, motor insurance and personal liability insurance. trillion industry that has been stuck in the pre-internet era. We nailed how to disrupt it in our core market,” Teicke said. We’re tackling that $5.2

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Keys to ascending the consumer-internet throne. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. Each stage of this evolution unlocked billions of dollars in value, and many of the names listed above remain the largest consumer internet companies today. Going after very large markets.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Last week, I wrote four companies with an insurance technology angle. This is notable if you consider the fact that many general insurance technology companies have struggled over the past year. In particular, the company sees huge potential in the e-bike market, which is expected to surge in the coming years. Weekly News.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Insurance provider Coalition said in its “ 2023 Cyber Claims Report: Mid-year Update ” that cyber claims rose 12% in the first half of 2023 compared with the second half of 2022, a surge driven primarily by ransomware attacks. Other ransomware insights from the report include: The number of ransomware attacks in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Fintechs dominated the fundraising, accounting for nearly $3 billion, or two thirds of all the investment realized by startups across the continent last year, a report by markets insights firm Briter Bridges shows. It is also poised for greater growth as the adoption of lending, digital payments, banking and insurance services grows. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

To get a better handle on the Indian startup market more broadly, The Exchange got ahold of Accel investors Arun Mathew (based in the United States), and Prayank Swaroop (based in India), for a bit of digging. All told, 2019 was a huge year for the Indian startup market in venture capital terms, and 2020’s recovery is underway.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

There have been rare cases in the past, for instance, when Rocket Internet had to include Jumia’s financials in its yearly reports after going public. The brothers started the company in a niche digital lending market, but now, the company offers a plethora of services from savings to payments and investments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The tumble has pushed the market cap of Delhivery to below $3.4 The tumble has pushed the market cap of Delhivery to below $3.4 The company counts SoftBank, Tiger Global, Times Internet, The Carlyle Group, Steadview Capital and Addition among its backers. apiece to as low as 382 Indian rupees ($4.62) before slight recovery.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Tiger Global’s earliest portfolio investments on the continent were in consumer internet companies. Back then, a lot of people were not on the internet, so it was really about consumer services to get people on the internet,” said Opeyemi Awoyemi , whose company, Jobberman, received $1 million from Tiger Global.

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CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Generative AI is starting off a new age of exploration in IT,” says Frank Schmidt, CTO at insurance firm Gen Re. For this reason, out-of-the-box LLMs such as Bedrock from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and those from Microsoft may give CIOs the speed to market they desire. However, developing and deploying an LLM is costly.

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Tenable

APRIL 26, 2023

The research firm’s latest report also provides market insights security professionals can use to improve their vulnerability management strategy. IDC recently published its Worldwide Device Vulnerability Management Market Shares, 2021: The Stakes Are High report to highlight the top worldwide vulnerability management vendors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Quick thoughts : Off the back of DoorDash’s IPO, Y Combinator seems set on replicating that success in other markets, including Africa, where the likes of Glovo and Jumia Food are ramping up efforts to grab market share. What it says it does : Building Plaid for insurance in Africa. Founded in : 2019. Team size : 30 .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2023

The entity will build on the success of Robinhood’s popular daily markets newsletter, Snacks, and will serve as a branding and customer acquisition tool. announced] the launch of its insurance arm. Currently live are mobile and pet insurance products, with more to come in the first half of the year….This

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If the rules are too strict or costly, non-EU firms will just make the decision to ignore the EU market,” said Ray Wang, principal analyst and founder of Constellation Research. And it’s extremely important for innovation and business,” Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for internal market, said at the press conference.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The world’s second largest internet market has delivered 43 startups in the new batch, another record figure in the history of the storied venture firm. ZOKO is helping businesses do sales, marketing, and customer support on WhatsApp. billion market, which consists of over 400,000 private schools.

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Tenable

JANUARY 12, 2024

In addition, cyber insurance demand is forecast to grow robustly. Those are some key drivers fueling demand for cybersecurity insurance, a market expected to grow at a 22.3% Those are some key drivers fueling demand for cybersecurity insurance, a market expected to grow at a 22.3% And much more! billion in 2023.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 6, 2024

The technology revolutions we’ve seen so far — whether it’s cloud or mobile, or even personal computing or internet — took some inefficient mechanism and tried to provide some technology to make it easier,” he said. AI goes much further. And so, we’re seeing this innovation fully impact productivity in the tech sector.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The company received its license to operate as a full depository bank in Mexico, and is slowly working toward being the premier internet-based financial services provider for Mexico’s large and growing middle class, Sahagún said. “We are targeting a similar target market to Chime,” the albo founder and chief executive said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It remains at a relatively nascent phase expansion in the technology industry but is at the same time developed enough to have a 400-million-strong internet user base. Sea is the 65 th most valuable company in the world with a market cap of $187 billion, while Bukalapak was Indonesia’s largest-ever IPO at $1.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Her focus areas include high-growth software, marketplaces, and consumer internet. Part paradigm, part category and part multibillion-dollar market , CX is a broad term used across a myriad of contexts. Rebecca Liu-Doyle is principal at Insight Partners , a global private equity and venture capital firm.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

I recently had the pleasure of attending HCIC – The Healthcare Internet Conference with Perficient’s Senior Healthcare Strategist, Kayla Brown. No longer can we rely that there is a pool of staff large enough to fill all our open positions – and keep marketing to our highly competitive roles.

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2024

Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets. per share, a premium of around 60% over the market price. Hewlett-Packard’s insurance will pay out $100 million to those who purchased HP shares between Aug. billion or $11.7

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 6, 2022

This infrastructure comprises a scalable and reliable network that can be accessed from any location with the help of an internet connection. It also provides patients with the option to share or keep their medical histories out of the hands of insurance companies or hospitals. Need for Cloud Solutions for Healthcare.

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Hacker Earth

MARCH 29, 2018

Like every other industry, the global insurance sector, worth over $5 trillion, has undergone an immense overhaul because of disruptive technologies in recent years. According to PwC’s 2017 Global InsurTech Report, the challenges the insurance industry faces in their ability to innovate are. Talent (87%). IT security (53%). Blockchain.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

CEO Matt Bahr and Curt Hasselschwert got the idea for the company in 2018 while helping e-commerce brands solve marketing attribution through “how did you hear about us?” Typeform takes $135M to tickle more marketers. questions after the customer made a purchase. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As he left for the day, he could be overheard muttering, “I hope there’s a bit of internet left when I come back.”. Insuring the doggie : Mike reports how pet insurance startups chase the market as pet ownership booms among Gen Z and Millennials. Take a breather, you can always implode with stress next week instead.

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Trigent

JANUARY 5, 2023

The digital transformation of the Insurance industry, combined with advances in emerging technology, has disrupted the traditional insurance product stack. Explore more on the Unbundled Insurance Stack and Opportunities. Explore more on the Unbundled Insurance Stack and Opportunities. 5 opportunities with InsurTech 2.0

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Early-stage startups tend to claim that their go-to-market strategy is fully operational. “You can calculate it by taking new ARR divided by your marketing and sales spending,” Nahm writes. Few startups go to market with the exact product their founders first envisioned. How we built an AI unicorn in 6 years.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The gap in the market WeTravel is going after is one that seems to have been created, ironically, with the growth of online travel services. In the old, pre-internet days, travel agents ruled the roost when it came to booking tickets and overall vacations for many consumers and businesses, both as individuals and groups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

One company that is planning to drive the wave of telemedicine across the continent, as the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, is mPharma , a Ghanaian health tech start-up that is set to open 100 virtual centers across seven markets in Africa over the next six months.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

now offer online appointments, and many patients are familiar with getting live medical advice over the internet. These companies market this as a virtual house call, but for patients, the experience may feel more like being stuck on a conveyor belt. Insurance companies love this model because it is cheap to operate.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

They also have a USSD service for those without internet connection too. Also, 12 insurance companies have signed up, giving it access to a pool of customers within Uganda and across East Africa since most of them have a regional presence. “We The opportunities are countless, from data analytics to innovative distribution channels.”.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In this challenging revenue market, everyone is chasing government dollars,” Anderson said, observing that: “Governments are continuing to spend regardless of market cycles.” He attributes the enthusiasm to broader bullishness around defense tech and sectors with government funding. “In billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

“We conducted several successful pilots with banks and insurance companies,” Danilos said. “ This … funding allows us to double down on bringing Enso Cloud to the market as early as next year.” ” Processing data at scale. We want Enso to become the go-to solution.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We’re going on Day 5 with no power, heat or internet. In his blog post, Soman said the company wound down its health insurance product in anticipation of signing on a partner, who recently backed out in what the founder called “a massive and unexpected setback.” Who would have expected this to happen here?

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