Early-stage insurance tech record - CB Insights Research

Early-stage insurance tech trends. The incidental channel opportunity.

Insurance 2.0

Hi there,

If the current pace holds, early-stage insurance tech deals (seed/Series A) will hit a new quarterly record in Q1’16.

Of note, the data highlights early-stage dealflow moving away from the healthcare space – borne out in this past week’s announced deals to pet insurance (Figo) and business insurance management (CoverWallet).

Today’s newsletter features a great guest post from Kyle Nakatsuji (@kylenakatsuji) at American Family Ventures on what he calls “Insurance 2.0”.

Kyle dives into the evolution of insurance distribution and touches on the power of mobile-first approaches to agency and why incidental sales channels will help shape the future of insurance. Be sure to check it out.

Hope you have a great rest of the week.

Matt
@mlcwong

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