This document is a digest focusing on the latest news and insights in the insurtech industry, emphasizing innovations and investment opportunities. It discusses the evolving landscape of insurance, including the shift towards digital and AI-driven operations, and highlights a call for startups in supply chain innovation. Key topics include regulatory developments, investment trends, and articles to watch in the field, as well as a post about autonomous trucks making deliveries.

1. Issue #43 • January 27 • View online • Suggest a link
Insurtech
The latest report, news and information about startups and innovations in the
insurance industry, with a focus on best #insurtech initiatives and venture
capital investments
Hello and welcome to your weekly Insurance and Insurtech digest. This
week we have 12 resources you shouldn’t miss.
Enjoy the reading!
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2. Insurtech Reports and Studies
What Lies Beyond Digital for Insurance Bionic
Operations?
The rapid maturation of AI-driven digital technologies is reshaping the
insurance industry. Insurtechs and digital insurance champions have
flooded the market with personalized and proactive services, simpler claims
processes, and seamless digital experiences—and their net promoter
scores are sky high. The pressure is on for traditional insurance companies
to keep up. To outperform their digital attackers, these companies need to
reach the next level of insurance operations—or what we call bionic
operations.
www.bcg.com • Share

3. Must-read insurtech stories
The Word of the Year Is…’Ecosystems’
Ecosystems should produce key changes in two areas:
how we touch customers and how we organize internal
processes…
www.insurtechinsights.com • Share
Unbundling and re-bundling cover
Traditional distribution models within general insurance
are changing quickly and moving to insurance becoming
much more of a part of ecosystems with third party
distributors. “These may be e-commerce, or travel, or
mobility, or all sorts of insurance purchased in the
context of everyday life,”
www.asiainsurancereview.com • Share
Focus on Insurtech Regulatory evolution
in US
This is the first installment of a two-part look at the top 10
insurance regulatory developments of 2020 by attorneys
at Locke Lord. The first part covers COVID-19,
Insurtechs, Data Privacy, Race Equality
www.insurancejournal.com • Share

4. The disruption of Insurance is already
happening
Disruption is already happening and will only speed up. Just like with the
advent of the personal computer disrupting mainframes it’s a gradual
process and once the corporate notices the disruption financially it’s too
late. There’s plenty of opportunities to disrupt, even in the insurance
industry where distribution channels are changing, more touchpoints are
needed and consumer behaviour will completely reshape how people
interact with this over a century old product.
stryber.com • Share

5. Post of the week
Ronald van Loon
@Ronald_vanLoon
Progress being made: Volvo's latest #Autonomous truck just made its first delivery
by @DigitalTrends
#Transport #SelfDrivingCars #DriverlessCars #Driverless #SelfDriving #AI #Mobility
#InsurTech
Cc: @jeroenbartelse https://t.co/SKjNBPMns1
1:01 AM - 19 Jan 2021

6. Investment and Startup Use Cases
Venture's role in supporting insurtech diversity
We asked our VC panelists six questions. The sixth: How can
insurtech VCs do more to find, elevate and support companies
founded by women and BIPOC?
www.dig-in.com • Share
Are investors still interested in insurtech?
Technology continues to be a primary growth driver in insurance
dealmaking worldwide. Notable deals completed in 2020 include
investments into US-based startup Openly, Belgium’s Keypoint,
and yallacompare in the United Arab Emirates. Look at trend
expected to roll on through 2021
www.insurancebusinessmag.com • Share
Arbol raises $7 million in Series A
NY-based insurance platform for parametric
products Arbol announced that it has raised ~$7 million in a
Series A round that included Finch Finance, Space Capital, and
Mubadala Capital-Ventures.
coverager.com • Share
Most Read
Techstars Insurtech Digest #42 🔎
AIoT: When Artificial Intelligence Meets the Internet of Things.
Read this and more articles on insurtech topic
www.getrevue.co • Share

7. Techstars Insurtech Digest #40 🔎
Now, New, Next: How and When Insurers have to acquire key
capabilities. Read this and more articles on insurtech topic
www.getrevue.co • Share
Techstars Insurtech Digest #39 🔎
11 Insurtech predictions for 2021; Unleashing growth through
new business building. Read this and more articles on insurtech
topic
www.getrevue.co • Share
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