Consolidation and Covid-19 blamed for insurtech investment 'slowdown'
Consolidation and the global coronavirus pandemic have driven a slowdown in insurtech investment in the first quarter of the year, experts have cautioned, with the worst of the Covid-19 impact on funding yet to come.
Last week, Willis Towers Watson reported insurtech investment worldwide during quarter one, which saw almost the same amount of money raised in its first three days as was then subsequently raised in
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