InsurTech Publications We Actually Read — And What Each One Is Good For
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, brokers and investors, so this is a working list rather than a highlight reel. Nobody named the same thing. One person doesn’t follow anything at all. We’ve sorted the results by the question each source answers.
The daily and weekly signal
Who raised, who launched, which carrier moved, and what everyone will be talking about by lunch.
Coverager
Three people named Coverager independently. Vanessa Fajardo goes to it for funding news, product launches and carrier/startup moves. Ting Lin values how direct the coverage is, and how little of it reads like marketing. Tony Lew’s reason is more practical:
Tony
Ting
InsurTech Insights
Roi Hansraj calls this the quick-and-dirty end of his stack: a weekly format he can get through without turning it into a research project. Tarun Chopra and Ting Lin use it the same way — a pulse, not diligence.
Bijon Mehta’s FinServ Reading Roundup
Bijon Mehta pulls dozens of financial-services stories into one organized roundup. Most of David Gritz’s regular reading is public markets and stock analysis, so for FinServ he’d rather someone else handled the volume.
David
InsurTech Weekly
Sokhiba Mukhitdinova’s counterweight to the traditional trade press: insurance innovation through a venture-capital lens.
Sokhiba
Editorial, strategy and market intelligence
News tells you what happened. These are the sources the team reaches for when the question is what it changes.
Carrier Management
Aaron Caton reads Carrier Management for the questions it asks about where the industry is heading, and for a willingness to push against the status quo that most trade press avoids.
Aaron
Oxbow Partners
Vanessa Fajardo’s pick for the layer between a headline and a decision: market intelligence, insurance strategy and open innovation.
Disclosure: the InsurTech Fund is working with Oxbow Partners on a research project examining InsurTech M&A.
Vanessa
Leader’s Edge
Tarun Chopra reads the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers’ publication for the broker and commercial side of the market — a view InsurTech-native coverage tends to miss.
Tarun
Funding, M&A and company research
Not morning-coffee reading. This is where a thesis meets the data.
CB Insights: State of InsurTech
Vanessa Fajardo’s go-to for the quarterly picture: funding totals, deal count and M&A. Roi Hansraj uses it to validate a company, a funding history or a vendor shortlist. Both treat it as a check rather than a habit.
Dealroom
Roi Hansraj uses it to get past an investor-only view into company-level detail.
Roi
Gallagher Re Global InsurTech Report
Isaac Espinoza’s pick for sector trends and deal activity, with the insurance specificity general venture data misses.
FT Partners InsurTech Reports
Also Isaac’s: a transaction-first view — financing rounds, M&A, and who is buying whom.
None of these will tell you when applications open
Every publication above covers the industry. Ours covers what we’re seeing inside it — notes from our team, our events and our partners’, and program announcements: Startup Competition, MGA Lab, Match.
Regional and global sources
One advantage of an international team: the list doesn’t stop at the US market.
Hugues Bertin — LatAm InsurTech Journey
Vanessa Fajardo follows Hugues Bertin for reports and running commentary on the Latin American ecosystem — a region she thinks the global insurance press underserves.
Vanessa
Insurance POST
Sokhiba Mukhitdinova’s first stop for UK general insurance.
Sokhiba
Insurance Times
The other half of Sokhiba’s UK coverage — read alongside POST, not instead of it.
Sokhiba
InsurTech Analyst
Sokhiba’s wider-scope InsurTech read, covering ground the UK trade press doesn’t reach.
Sokhiba
InsurTech Digital
Roi Hansraj’s read outside the usual US and European orbit, especially for Asian market developments.
Roi
InsurTech Amsterdam
Tyrel McAllister’s pick for the mix — articles, interviews and short features from several corners of the industry.
Tyrel
Financial Times & The Economist
When the question is bigger than insurance, Sokhiba goes here for the economic and political weather around the market.
Sokhiba
Somil Jain
Somil doesn’t follow anything on a schedule. He scans insurance and InsurTech outlets, reinsurer updates, automotive reports and actuarial newsletters, and stops when a subject surfaces — usually MGAs launching products, securing capacity, or new entrants.
A reading list should be useful, not definitive
No single source covers insurance well enough on its own. That’s why eleven people gave us eleven different answers.
So the question worth asking probably isn’t which publication is best. It’s what you’re trying to understand this week.
This list is incomplete. Some of the best work comes from small newsletters and independent analysts that deserve a wider audience — if we’ve missed one you rely on, tell us.