Insurance Technology

Insurtech 2019 Funding Hit Historic High

The below chart shows insurtech funding over time and calls out the largest funding round in recent years. As you can see, insurtech funding had steady growth from 2016 through 2018, followed by a big bump in 2019 to $6.6B.

Venture Scanner Innovation Quadrants

Our Innovation Quadrants are a framework to guide you in the startup scouting process. The Innovation Quadrant organizes emerging technology categories into four states of innovation by plotting the categories on two axes. One axis uses average age to show maturity. The other uses average funding to give a sense of traction.

Venture Scanner Sector Maps

Our sector maps are snapshots of our emerging technology reports. We show the categories that make up a sector and a random sampling of the startups that are innovating in each category. In this post we share our most up-to-date sector maps for all of our 17 sector reports. They are all available for download.

Notable Insurtech Startups and Ethos Life Profile

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To give you a view into our client-only research, here is an excerpt from our Insurtech Quarterly Review. Our Quarterly Reviews summarize startup activity in technology sectors, provide key analyst takeaways, and profile notable startups.

Insurance Infrastructure Leads Insurance Technology Exit Activity

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How do the different insurance technology (insurtech) categories compare in terms of exit activity? Let’s find out in the graph below, which shows the number of all-time insurtech acquisitions and IPOs by category through Q3 2019.

Venture Scanner Innovation Quadrants

Our Innovation Quadrants act as a framework to guide you in the startup scouting process. The Innovation Quadrant organizes categories into four states of innovation by plotting the sector categories on two axes. One axis uses average age to show maturity. The other uses average funding to give a sense of traction. Knowing which quadrant each category sits will help in developing your scouting strategy.