We’d earlier highlighted that as early-stage investments move beyond health coverage to small business, renter’s, life insurance and other areas, 2016 could see about-face in US insurance tech deal share. That appears to be bearing out from the early Q1’16 data.
By the numbers
A few highlights from our weekly round-up of insurance tech articles below.
17 – percent of US small business insurance premiums will be underwritten digitally by 2018, according to estimates. 15 – Estimated dollar amount of cyber insurance premiums in billions by early 2020s. 2 – automakers announcing or launching car sharing services this week. One of them, Jaguar Land Rover, is also set to launch a new insurance product in the coming weeks. 3 – investments made by Aviva’s venture arm to date.