Watch more: Monday Conversation With Hippo’s Rick McCathron Ask most people about their homeowners insurance and you’ll get a shrug. It’s not exactly a dinner-table conversation starter. But behind that ho-hum product sits one of the most structurally complicated, climate-rattled and technologically disrupted markets in...
The insurance sector is colliding with a new customer rhythm. People can move money with a tap and ask an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for advice in plain English. They bring those expectations to insurance: quick answers and fast follow-through. Yet many independent agencies are...
Insurance platform Ethos Technologies hopes to raise $211 million from its initial public offering. The company and some of its shareholders aim to sell 10.5 million shares at a price between $18 and $20 apiece, according to a Tuesday (Jan. 20) securities filing. The filing...
Trucking industry insurance company Nirvana has raised $100 million. The company’s Series D round, announced last week, will allow it to bolster its operating system, which it says it constructed to combat the industry problem of slow decisions and innovation cycles that could stretch into...
July 30, 2026
Watch more: Hippo CEO Says Growth Starts With the Risks It Won’t Take Insurance companies rarely get into trouble because they can’t find enough customers. They get into trouble because they keep writing business after the price no longer covers the risk. That lesson sits at the center of Hippo Holdings’ growth strategy. President and […]
April 13, 2026
Watch more: Monday Conversation With Hippo’s Rick McCathron Ask most people about their homeowners insurance and you’ll get a shrug. It’s not exactly a dinner-table conversation starter. But behind that...
February 10, 2026
The insurance sector is colliding with a new customer rhythm. People can move money with a tap and ask an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for advice in plain English. They...
August 05, 2024
In the connected economy, there are simple business models (think subscriptions), complex business models (think platforms like Uber), and then there’s insurance. The insurance sector is so large and complicated...
January 20, 2026
Insurance platform Ethos Technologies hopes to raise $211 million from its initial public offering. The company and some of its shareholders aim to sell 10.5 million shares at a price between $18 and $20 apiece, according to a Tuesday (Jan. 20) securities filing. The filing was flagged in a report by Bloomberg News, which says […]
December 22, 2025
Trucking industry insurance company Nirvana has raised $100 million. The company’s Series D round, announced last week, will allow it to bolster its operating system, which it says it constructed...
September 26, 2025
Life insurance technology company Ethos Technologies filed for its initial public offering Friday (Sept. 26). The company filed its registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
April 17, 2025
InsurTech startup 1Fort has raised $7.5 million in a funding round to enhance the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities of its platform for business insurance. The company’s platform is designed to...
