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Travel insurance startup Faye raises $8 million in Seed funding

The Israeli company’s platform covers travelers’ trips, health, belongings, and even their pets, all via an app that sends real-time proactive alerts

Maayan Upasana Sayata

Sayata expands senior management with two new hires

24.02.22|James Spiro

Maayan Sanderovitz Eshed is its new VP of Operations in Tel Aviv and Upasana Unni was appointed Chief Commercial Officer in Boston

ינון דולב דיאה שרידי איציק לביא מיטל שביט

Israeli startup GEOX to assess damage to millions of Japanese buildings for insurance giant Sompo

The company’s AI technology for analyzing 3D aerial images will help the Japanese conglomerate to improve the accuracy of the risk assessment and underwriting processes

עמליה לנדאו דנה פולג עופר מילבסקי שני גל

Five Sigma expands team with four new appointments

The insurtech startup appointed a new CMO, COO, VP of HR, and VP of Product

תיאודורה גוונובה נקסט

Former Airbnb and PayPal executive joining NEXT Insurance as CFO ahead of potential IPO

13.01.22|Meir Orbach

Teodora Gouneva supported successful IPOs at both PayPal and Airbnb and also has extensive acumen in M&A, equity and debt financing, international expansion and new product launches

עמית בציר רומה ברונשטיין גיא סלמה Spott

Startup Spott announces arrival with digital insurance platform for e-commerce sellers

13.01.22|Meir Orbach

The Israeli company’s insurance enables e-commerce businesses to protect their stores against claims and comply with up-to-date insurance requirements from leading marketplaces, most notably Amazon

חברת אינשורטק VOOM Insurance

VOOM raises $15 million to provide insurance to more mobility vehicles

05.10.21|James Spiro

Already providing insurance for drones, the company will expand to motorcycles, light aircraft, rideshare and delivery drivers

Financial consumerism gets personal in the digital age

As the world turns to digital – a process highlighted by Covid – increasingly more services and products are becoming personalized

מייסדים Five Sigma עודד ברק דרור שולומון ו מיכאל קירחלי

Insurtech startup Five Sigma raises $12 million Series A

13.09.21|Meir Orbach

The Israeli company aims to deliver a cloud-native, data-driven claims management platform with embedded AI/ML capabilities that enable insurance firms to handle customers’ claims better and faster

מימין תמיר כרמל נטע רוזי יונתן חצור אורי כהן Parametrix

Down, but not out: Parametrix ensuring uptime glitches aren’t destructive

12.09.21|Allon Sinai

Israeli startup Parametrix is disrupting the insurance industry with its IT downtime policy, recently expanding into Europe after already entering the U.S. market with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London, and partnering with Japanese insurance giant Sompo

אסף וונד מנכ"ל היפו hippo

The Hippo in the room: How the insurtech unicorn lost half its value in two weeks

22.08.21|Sophie Shulman

Hippo has become the poster boy for everything that is problematic with SPACs, with 83% of the capital raised by its SPAC being withdrawn prior to the IPO and disappointing reports leading to a dramatic drop in its stock price

Next Insurance targeting mergers and acquisitions to increase market share

08.07.21|Hagar Ravet

The insurtech company announced the appointment of Eran Liron as its Chief Strategy Officer, with Liron telling Calcalist “our agenda is very aggressive, to expand and secure a much larger market share"

מימין ניצן צעיר-הרים יוחנן דנינו אמיל וינשל

Insurtech company WeSure boosts portfolio with $110 million acquisition of Ayalon

27.06.21|Golan Hazani

WeSure is buying 50.4% of insurance company Ayalon's shares at a $216 million valuation, 33% higher than its Tel Aviv Stock Exchange market cap

דיה שרידי יונתן חצור ינון דולב Parametrix

Insurance powerhouse Sompo signs strategic collaboration with Parametrix to insure e-commerce stores

The Israeli startup, which specializes in insurance policies in the event of cloud-based crashes or downtime, plans to provide service to millions of customers in Japan and the Far East over the next few years

מימין תמיר כרמל נטע רוזי יונתן חצור אורי כהן Parametrix

Insurtech company Parametrix raises $17.5 million led by FirstMark Capital

26.05.21|Meir Orbach

The Israeli startup's offering ensures that companies with mission-critical services in the cloud can quickly recover from IT downtime events

Libra targeting TASE IPO at NIS 400 million valuation

23.05.21|Golan Hazani

The digital-insurance company became profitable in 2020, less than three years after its founding, and is now looking to raise NIS 50-100 million

אפסטרים Upstream יואב לוי יונתן אפל

Japan's largest insurance company investing $36 million in Upstream Security

20.05.21|Meir Orbach

The Israeli vehicle cybersecurity startup will use the new funds to accelerate the growth of its cloud platform

מייסדי פלאנק מימין דיוויד שפירו אמיר כהן ו אלעד צור

Ex-Salesforce execs raise an additional $20 million for insurtech startup Planck

12.05.21|Meir Orbach

The Israeli company provides an AI-based data platform for commercial insurance and works with top U.S. insurance companies to increase premiums while reducing loss and expense ratios

Alon Zilberberg Rumble

Ready to Rumble? Israeli health app pays you for your health

09.05.21|James Spiro

With Rumble, every step can be converted into tokens with purchasing power in real stores and communities

Assaf Wand Hippo

"To attract the right talent, you need to let go and let them run their own stuff and not intervene"

Michael Matias is joined by Hippo CEO and co-founder Assaf Wand, who shares what it means to bring innovation to an otherwise lagging industry

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