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Weekly News Roundup Top InsurTech Headlines from October 5–11, 2026 Curated by InsurTech NY • Sources: company announcements and industry reporting Ledgebrook’s $200 million financing leads this week’s insurtech news, alongside fresh capital for Bitcoin life insurance, commercial broking and claims automation. Sapiens also introduced a new insurance-specific AI foundation, while Insurity expanded its implementation […]

Weekly News Roundup Top InsurTech Headlines from September 28–October 4, 2026 Curated by InsurTech NY • Sources: company announcements and industry reporting Subscribe on LinkedIn $10.9B Zurich–Beazley Deal $355M Outmarket Valuation 500+ Insurers Using Radar M&A Zurich Closes $10.9B Beazley Deal Zurich completed its acquisition of Beazley on October 2, combining the two businesses into […]

Halifax • September 30, 2026 From the InsurTech Fund Portfolio We’re pleased to share this announcement from QuickFacts, a portfolio company of the InsurTech Fund. QuickFacts has formalized a strategic partnership with Intact Insurance, Canada’s largest property and casualty insurer, building on a relationship brokers already see every day inside the QuickFacts platform. In its […]

Weekly News Roundup Top InsurTech Headlines from September 21–27, 2026 Curated by InsurTech NY • Sources: official company announcements and industry reporting Subscribe on LinkedIn 7 Top Stories 2–4 Weeks Typical Placement Time £40M Alpha TR Capacity Distribution Insurify Tells Meta’s AI Agent: Not Like This Insurify blocked Meta’s Muse personal AI agent from accessing […]

Weekly News Roundup Top InsurTech Headlines from September 14–20, 2026 Curated by InsurTech NY • Sources: official company announcements, regulatory filings, research and industry reporting Subscribe on LinkedIn $7.7B Baldwin Take-Private $2.7B Angle Valuation $240M Orion180 IPO Acquisition Sword to Acquire Headspace After a Massive Valuation Reset Sword signed an agreement to acquire Headspace, bringing […]

Cork, Ireland • September 15, 2026 From the InsurTech Fund Portfolio Kayna, a portfolio company of the InsurTech Fund, has launched Kayna Risk Manager, a stand-alone module for third-party insurance compliance. Rather than stopping at the certificate, it reads the policies, endorsements and contracts behind it, then flags where vendor, franchisee, subcontractor or tenant coverage […]

Raising money for an InsurTech startup comes with a few considerations that founders in other sectors never have to think about. Insurance is a specialized industry where distribution, regulation, and partnerships all take time, and depending on what you are building you may also need carrier relationships, reinsurance, capacity, licenses, actuarial expertise, or a way […]

Weekly News Roundup Top InsurTech Headlines from September 7–13, 2026 Curated by InsurTech NY • Sources: official company announcements, industry research and reporting Subscribe on LinkedIn 7 Top Stories 95%+ AI Underwriter Accuracy $1.68B Orion180 IPO Valuation AI & Underwriting Prudential Hong Kong Launches AI Underwriting Assistant Prudential Hong Kong launched an AI-powered underwriting assistant […]

Weekly News Roundup Top InsurTech Headlines from August 31–September 6, 2026 Curated by InsurTech NY • Sources: official company announcements, industry research and reporting Subscribe on LinkedIn 7 Top Stories $2B McGill Valuation $700M Chariot Re Raise Private Equity McGill and Partners Reaches a $2 Billion Valuation Just Seven Years After Launch EQT agreed to […]

Weekly News Roundup Top InsurTech Headlines from August 24–30, 2026 Curated by InsurTech NY • Sources: official company announcements, regulatory filings and industry reporting Subscribe on LinkedIn 7 Top Stories $17B Reported Aon / USI Deal $10B Data Center Capacity IPO Bamboo Files for an IPO as InsurTech Tests the Public Markets Again Bamboo Insurance […]

The MGA market is attracting a new generation of insurance entrepreneurs. This year, we saw that shift firsthand. A record 93 companies applied for the 2026 InsurTech NY MGA Lab, up 50% from the previous year. From that group, 13 companies were selected for the new cohort. The headline is the volume of applications. The […]

Weekly News Roundup Top InsurTech Headlines from August 17–23, 2026 Curated by InsurTech NY • Sources: official company announcements, industry research and reporting Subscribe on LinkedIn 7 Top Stories $575M At-Bay Deal 47.2% Auto Policies Shopped Acquisition Munich Re Buys At-Bay for $575M, Far Below Its 2021 Valuation Munich Re agreed to acquire cyber insurance […]

Weekly News Roundup Top InsurTech Headlines from August 10–16, 2026 Curated by InsurTech NY • Sources: official company announcements, industry research and reporting Subscribe on LinkedIn 7 Top Stories $4B+ Accelerant Deal $17.5M Axle Series A Take-Private Accelerant Goes Private in $4 Billion Thoma Bravo Deal Thoma Bravo agreed to acquire specialty insurance platform Accelerant […]

What We’re Reading InsurTech Publications We Actually Read — And What Each One Is Good For Eleven people, one question, and no consensus. We asked our team one question: when you want to know what’s actually happening in insurance, what do you read? The answers came from people who spend their days with founders, carriers, […]

Weekly News Roundup Top InsurTech Headlines from August 3–9, 2026 Curated by InsurTech NY • Sources: official company announcements, industry research and reporting Subscribe on LinkedIn 7 Top Stories 99.1% Q2 Funding to AI $2.44B Q2 InsurTech Funding Industry Report Is InsurTech Funding Becoming an AI-Only Game? Gallagher Re reported $2.44 billion in global InsurTech […]