Start-ups
Spotlight: Motor data: Taking today's customers into the fast lane
Having grown up in the internet age, Millennials have very different expectations to previous generations. Young people are getting into the driver’s seat and motor insurers need to understand how to build a relationship with them
Blog: Overcoming inhibitors to product delivery
Many insurers are stuck trying to figure out how to get their digital initiatives off the ground and are overly focused on how to create the next Uber for their industry.
Blog: Building the business case for digital insurance
The ever-increasing range of digital applications in insurance drives a host of opportunities to provide products and services that are more useful, convenient and appealing to the individuals and businesses that the industry serves. Digital technologies…
Blog: Smart world - unlearning the past
We're living in an increasingly ‘smart' world. Smartphones have become indispensable to our day-to-day lives and the concept of smart homes and driverless cars is becoming reality.
Roundtable: How to connect with the Millennial market
Penetration into the under-30s market remains low despite new app-based products and innovative solutions. Post, in association with GMC software, hosted a roundtable to find out what more the industry can do to address this
Startup Bootcamp reveals 10 start-ups for insurtech acceleration programme
Startup Bootcamp has revealed the top 10 insurtech start-ups for its 2017 acceleration programme.
Industry welcomes £23bn investment in innovation in Autumn Statement
Plans by the government to contribute £23bn toward tech innovation have been welcomed by insurtech firms.
Trov partnership is a model for how to handle disruptors, says Blanc
Insurers should embrace 'disruptive' insurtech start-ups like Trov, said Amanda Blanc, Axa UK CEO.
Innovation in Insurance 2016: Insurers are adapting to emerging risks
Insurers have been quick to adapt to emerging risks, a conference heard.
Innovation in Insurance 2016: Insurtech start-ups are an opportunity, not a threat
Insurers should see insurtech start-ups as an opportunity rather than a threat, a conference heard.
Insurtech start-up targets barriers faced by Generation Rent
An insurtech start-up will enable tenants to take up a rental contract without putting down a deposit.
Only one insurance product will take part in FCA's regulatory sandbox
Out of the 24 applications submitted to join the FCA’s regulatory sandbox, just one of those was an insurance product.
Editor's Comment: Shout out to the start-ups
Several times in my life I've stopped and taken stock and upon realising things weren't quite as they should be, I've chosen a new path.
Women entrepreneurs: Insurance start-ups
Five female insurance entrepreneurs give Jonathan Swift the lowdown on the start-up sector
Blog: Think like a start-up or face digital insurance failure
Last week, Post gathered more than 150 people together at the Business Design Centre in Islington for the first ever Digital Insurance World.
The gig economy needs cover as flexible as it is
In the good old days, the point where work ended and leisure began was obvious. Home and office were clearly defined spaces, and uniforms, working hours and management structures all helped to reinforce these boundaries. But those days have gone and in…
Startupbootcamp and Eos sign £1m investment deal
Startupbootcamp has signed an agreement with Eos Venture Partners that will see up to £1m of funding put into its cohort 2017 start-ups.
Digital Insurance World 2016: Connected home offers insurers huge opportunity to tap
There is a huge opportunity for connected home insurance with three-quarters of consumers being interested in monitoring their home via a mobile app, according to a survey by Consumer Intelligence.
Insurtech start-ups: Funding the future
Insurtech start-ups have a range of options to fund their business: from private equity to crowdfunding, from partners to business angels, from incubators to accelerators. Innovators are using old and new ways to raise money - and each of them has its…
Where are all the full-stack insurance start-ups?
Capital requirements and regulations have been blamed for putting off new full-stack insurers from establishing in the UK but Brexit won't necessarily help start-ups.
Startup Bootcamp partners with Talanx
Startup bootcamp Insurtech has brokered a partnership with German insurer Talanx.
Insurtech start-up Wrisk gets BMW innovation lab backing
Insurtech provider Wrisk has been selected as one of five finalists to join the BMW Innovation Lab, the first-ever fintech business incubator in the automotive sector.
Could other start-ups follow the Beyonce name-checking Lemonade in seeking musical inspiration
This week saw the launch of the much trumpeted and anticipated peer-to-peer insurer Lemonade.
Insurtech booms as investment triples in the UK
Investment in insurtech so far this year is already triple that of the whole of last year, making it one of the UK's fastest growing sectors.