Technology

Near Space Offers Insurers a Unique View on Risk, Claims & More

Near Space Labs, the cutting-edge geospatial intelligence and Earth observation company, today announced the launch of its 10 cm per pixel Earth imagery resolution. This highly detailed imagery will be offered at the same affordable […]

Global insurance trends

Chloris Geospatial Secures $2.5m in Funding Round

Chloris Geospatial, a Boston-based start-up that is pioneering advanced approaches to produce accurate planetary-scale terrestrial biomass accounting, has secured first round seed investment today. Chloris closed the round with a $2.5 million investment from At One […]

Flood Insurance

AXA XL Launches Coastal Flood Mapping Tool

At COP26, AXA XL launched the Coastal Risk Index (CRI), an innovative tool that maps current and future flood hazard resulting from climate change and integrates for the first time the protective benefits of coastal […]

Insurance claims

MIS Partners Up With Yokahu on Parametric Cover

Leading geospatial imagery and re/insurance intelligence company, McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with digital first Managing General Agent (MGA) McCosh Holdings Ltd, trading as Yokahu. Yokahu uses parametric underwriting and […]

InsureTech

Previsico Secures £1.75m Seed Funding

InsurTech Previsico has announced that it has gained £1.75mil Seed Plus funding, led by Foresight Group, a listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, to support the next stage of their product development, including IoT […]

Emerging Risk

Amica Insurance and Zesty.ai Team Up on Fire Cover

Today Amica Insurance announced its partnership with Zesty.ai, the leader in climate risk analytics powered by artificial intelligence (AI), to integrate Zesty.ai’s predictive wildfire risk analytics solution, Z-FIRE™, into Amica’s homeowners product line. This gives […]

Flood Insurance

Global Flood Trends Analysed By Willis Towers Watson

New research published by Willis Research Network partner Cloud to Street, now provides ground-breaking insights into the rising global flood risk. Cloud to Street uses direct satellite observations of flooding and refines this geospatial data […]