insurtech

French embedded insurance startup Neat secures $55 million

It’s not every day that you hear about a large funding round for a French startup in the current funding environment. But Neat, a Paris-based insurtech startup, has managed to raise €50 million (around $55 million at current exchange rates). There is some fine print however. In addition to the traditional equity-for-cash financial transaction, a […]

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Feather raises €6 million to go pan-European with its insurance platform for expats

As a foreigner, navigating health insurance systems can often be difficult. German startup Feather thinks it has a solution and raised €6 million to help some of the 40-plus million expats working and living in Europe. It is not that there are no options for foreign nationals to get insurance; there are plenty. But it

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Insurance provider Understory gets into renewable energy following $15M Series A

Back in 2014, Understory co-founder and CEO Alex Kubicek was on a mission to deploy a network of ground-level weather stations to track weather in real time and anticipate needs, for example, in terms of committing resources to an area after or during a storm. At the time, Kubicek teamed up with Bryan Dow to

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Honeycomb Insurance grabs $36M Series B from solo VC-led Zeev Ventures

When Itai Ben-Zaken’s first startup failed in 2018, the former BCG consultant and Wharton MBA spent months trying to understand what he could have done differently during the five years he ran the company. After analyzing most of his major decisions, he concluded that while Comprendi, a digital ad recommendation business, was an interesting offering,

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Honeycomb Insurance grabs $36M Series B from solo VC-led Zeev Ventures

When Itai Ben-Zaken’s first startup failed in 2018, the former BCG consultant and Wharton MBA spent months trying to understand what he could have done differently during the five years he ran the company. After analyzing most of his major decisions, he concluded that while Comprendi, a digital ad recommendation business, was an interesting offering,

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