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

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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. without the outsized market of South Africa.

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

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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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Ivorian healthtech startup Susu has $1M to scale its family-centric insurance product across Africa

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This isn’t an issue in developed markets, as healthcare systems change with the times to adequately provide healthcare when necessary. But in Africa, that’s not the case, as most people do not have access to quality healthcare due to the ill-equipped nature of hospitals and lack of insurance. .

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Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

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“Soci became an essential partner to brands for this transformation, which led to an increased need for brands to turn to technology to manage their presence in local digital market channels.” Khoury says he was inspired to found Soci by the dearth of options for brands to manage their presence across digital marketing channels.

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Exploring the digital impact in Northern Ireland’s health and social care system

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Although progress is being made that should be recognized and celebrated, Dan West, CDIO for Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland’s Department of Health, understands that the pandemic still casts a lingering shadow over national health and care systems, contributing to continuing rampant fatigue among staff and subsequent strikes over pay.

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8 investors weigh in on the state of insurtech in Q3 2022

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Insurtech companies have been among the biggest victims of the public market selloff, especially those that went public in 2021. “I do not believe the insurtech market to be dead, because it is still a multi-billion-dollar market,” Hélène Falchier, partner at Portage Ventures, told TechCrunch.

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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

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investment giant Carlyle Group , French corporate and investment bank Natixis , Japanese multinational insurance holding company Tokio Marine , and U.K.-based Companies can access Sesamm’s flagship product, TextReveal , via several conduits, including an API that brings Sesamm’s NLP engine into their own systems.