InsurTech

Avante targets rising insurance costs with $30m funding

Avante targets rising insurance costs with $30m funding

Seattle-based Avante has raised $30m in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered employee benefits platform internationally, as employers look for ways to manage...
How Vellum is tackling insurance’s AI-ready data problem

How Vellum is tackling insurance’s AI-ready data problem

The seed of Vellum traces back to challenges Julianna Muir, the company’s founder and CEO, identified consistently throughout her career. She began as a reinsurance...
PolicyMe launches AI copilot to speed up complex underwriting

PolicyMe launches AI copilot to speed up complex underwriting

Canadian InsurTech firm PolicyMe has launched an in-house AI underwriting copilot that has reduced the time underwriters spend processing complex life insurance cases by...
How bolttech is rethinking protection: preventing risk before it happens 

How bolttech is rethinking protection: preventing risk before it happens 

Insurance has traditionally been built around paying customers after something goes wrong, sometimes taking months to complete. But as customer expectations evolve, bolttech is...
Contour Underwriting taps KYND for global cyber push

Contour Underwriting taps KYND for global cyber push

Contour Underwriting has chosen KYND, a provider of cyber risk analytics, to support the worldwide rollout of its new cyber insurance proposition. KYND was picked...
Ebix expands COI platform with AI financial risk tools

Ebix expands COI platform with AI financial risk tools

Ebix, a provider of digital platforms for insurance, FinTech and healthcare, has expanded its certificate of insurance (COI) management offering with two tools designed...
World Insurance expands Texas reach with Zoom deal

World Insurance expands Texas reach with Zoom deal

World Insurance Associates, a US-based insurance brokerage, has acquired Zoom Insurance, a Texas agency specialising in convenience stores and fuel retailers, as it looks...
Guidewire agrees $2.1bn acquisition of hyperexponential

Guidewire agrees $2.1bn acquisition of hyperexponential

Guidewire, a cloud software provider serving more than 570 property and casualty (P&C) insurers worldwide, has agreed to acquire London-based underwriting technology company hyperexponential,...
How technology is transforming water risk management

How technology is transforming water risk management

Insurance has always been a reactive industry. An incident happens, and the insurers pays out on the claim. However, with advances in technology, is...
Earnix uses AI to close insurers’ execution gap

Earnix uses AI to close insurers’ execution gap

Earnix, an AI provider specialising in insurance decisioning, has launched its Q4 2026 Release, introducing updates to its pricing, rating and customer engagement tools...

News Stories

Bloomberg: AI skills open doors to quant investing

Bloomberg: AI skills open doors to quant investing

Bloomberg, the financial data, media and technology firm, has published new research suggesting that competence with AI and coding tools is overtaking conventional academic...
Phase lands $45m founder backing for AI agent blockchain

Phase lands $45m founder backing for AI agent blockchain

Phase, a company developing the operational backbone for an economy driven by AI agents, has switched on its Layer 1 blockchain mainnet with $45m...
Bdeo deploys Vonage API to speed up AI claims

Bdeo deploys Vonage API to speed up AI claims

Madrid-based InsurTech Bdeo has taken Vonage’s Quality on Demand (QoD) Network API into full commercial production, marking one of the technology’s earliest enterprise deployments...
Zigram: Why siloed checks miss trade-based money laundering

Zigram: Why siloed checks miss trade-based money laundering

Trade-based money laundering (TBML) remains one of the hardest threats to detect across the global financial system. Criminal networks manipulate cross-border trade to move...
Savvy Wealth opens private markets to independent advisors

Savvy Wealth opens private markets to independent advisors

Savvy Wealth, an AI-native registered investment advisor (RIA) serving independent financial advisors, has rolled out its own private markets programme, giving advisors on its...

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