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Nigeria’s insurance startup Curacel raises $450K to expand into 10 new African countries by the end of 2021

Curacel, an AI-powered platform for claims processing and fraud management in Africa, has raised $450,000 pre-seed funding in a round to accelerate Curacel’s expansion across Africa and facilitate the goal of becoming Africa’s premier provider of embedded finance technology for...

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning In The Insurance Sector

Like all businesses, insurance companies see digital transformation as crucial to future survival and growth. Customer experience through personalization and automation is the external manifestation of this transformation. Internally, automation is key to efficiency. Implementing artificial intelligence (AI) and...

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New data science can unlock $20million agriculture insurance business in East Africa-Allianz

Allianz Africa is eyeing the agriculture insurance sector in Kenya and the East African region which they say is set to grow by 200 percent. Allianz experts estimate that the value of the agriculture insurance segment to stand at $10...

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Kenya’s Pula & M-KOPA receive $1.3m to increase women’s access to loans & micro-insurance

Nairobi-based Pula Advisors and M-KOPA have received $1m and $300,000 respectively in grants from the African Development Bank for research that will increase African women’s access to a range of digital financial services including loans and micro-insurance. The grants, disbursed...

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Wazinsure wants to simplify your insurance policies and claims

Wazinsure in Kenya aims at making it easier for insurers to administer their policies competently by providing Al-based insurance solutions which also reduces their operating costs. Wazinsure is an agnostic product established to deliver across numerous lines of business....

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AAR Insurance goes mobile with paperless claims, issuing of medical policies online

Medical underwriter AAR Insurance Kenya has revamped its digital suite with the launch of a mobile app as part of its strategy to become a branchless and paperless insurer. The AAR Mobile App, downloadable on the Android Play Store and...

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Resolution Insurance launches Resolution Now, a self-service portal to reach the digital-first generation

Resolution Insurance has launched its online self-service portal, a platform that will allow the firm’s customers to access its products and services in a faster and simplified way. Dubbed “Resolution Now” the digital platform will enable the insurer to...

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2 out of 3 drivers do not own insurance coverage for their cars

It is well known how important it is to have valuable things insured. Insuring houses and vehicles protect owners from hazards that may be unthinkable at the moment of acquiring the new goods. Being involved in a car accident,...

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OKO, a crop insurance & finance startup wants to transform farming across Africa

OKO, a crop insurance startup serving smallholder farmers in Africa is transforming communications with farmers across Africa to dramatically improve service delivery and provide enhanced customer experiences. Present in Mali and Uganda, the crop insurance startup is using new technologies...

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Want To Compare Insurance Rates? PesaBazaar Is Where To Do It

PesaBazaar is the leading site for people to compare different insurance options. It aggregates insurance comparison information

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How to get an insurance cover on the go during COVID-19

The quarantine season is here with us, and most of us are still working and therefore driving to work across counties or internally in Nairobi. Apart from traveling, a good number of Kenyans are still buying expensive devices as...

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Takaful Insurance Unveils My Cyber Care To Monitor and Protect Personal Digital Assets in Real-time

Takaful Insurance of Africa Ltd (TIA), an insurance company offering ethical and innovative products recently unveiled My Cyber Care insurance cover to monitor and protect personal digital assets in real-time. Takaful, which provides a wide range of risk management and...

Business

Equitel rolls out new bundle with talk time and insurance cover

Equitel has announced the release of a new telephony bundle that offers customers both talk-time and insurance cover. Equitel will offer its customers the budle for as little as Ksh 1,249 per month. These will see customers enjoy 500 minutes...

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Pineapple, SA’s peer-to-peer insurance provider wins $1.5m from VentureClash Global Venture Challenge

Pineapple, a South Africa–based peer-to-peer insurance provider, has won the top investment of $1.5 million at VentureClash Global Challenge, organized by Connecticut Innovations (CI). Pineapple is the only startup from Africa that participated in the 2019 VentureClash competition, the $5 million global investment...

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Careem to provide free in-ride insurance for its passengers and drivers in 15 countries

Careem, the Uber for MEA, has launched a global in-ride insurance programme to provide free in-ride insurance for both passengers and Captains in all 15 countries in which Careem operates. With the deal, the firm would potentially pay up to...

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South African Insurtech startup Pineapple accepted into major US Insurance accelerator

Pineapple has been accepted into The Hartford Insurtech Hub more than a year and a month after the peer-to-peer insurance tech startup raised R5.2m from Lireas Holdings, the strategic investment arm of Hannover-Re Group Africa. The Johannesburg-based startup will get to...

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Mass-market microinsurance platform Bluewave Insurance to represent Kenya at Seedstars Africa

After hosting competitions in 16 countries in Africa in only five months, Seedstars World has identified the most promising startups in each country, highlighting local startup ecosystems. These African startups will be representing their countries in the finals in...

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InsureTech company Oko Finance is using mobile technologies to bring crop insurance to emerging markets

InsurTech company OKO Finance is using satellite and mobile technologies to bring crop insurance to emerging markets. OKO uses satellite information to define the risk and create insurance products for farmers in emerging markets. These products are then distributed...

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GreenTec Capital invests in Kenyan insurance company Bismart

GreenTec Cpital, a Frankfurt-based Firm has made an investment into Kenyan insurance company, Bismart, a Pan-African blockchain-powered insurance tech startup providing a digital surface to offer insurance products and services across Africa. Bismart’s vision is to enable every African to access...

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DaktariPap.com launches to connect rural farmers in Kenya to veterinary aid, affordable credit, insurance & agro dealers

DaktariPap, Swahili for emergency doctor is a Nairobi-based startup that has developed a unique Mobile, Web and SMS technology platform to connect rural farmers and agro dealers to credible and affordable vet, agronomy and insurance service providers bundled with innovative...

Tech

5 Reasons why you need Cyber Risk Insurance

Did you know that 60% of small businesses fail within 6 months after they have been a victim of cyber-attack? At the same time, 55% of businesses that bring in less than $10 million in annual revenue report that...

Business

AON Kenya unveils cyber insurance cover to online enhance safety for businesses

Businesses in Kenya will now be able to operate in a safer online environment thanks to a range of cyber insurance solutions unveiled by AON Kenya. According to AON Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sammy Muthui, the move was in response...

Business

Riovic is the Uber of Insurance

Riovic is an on-demand insurance platform founded by Phiwa Nkambule. It works like Uber and Airbnb. Consumers who do not have insurance policies can buy protection where and when they need it without the assuming of responsibility to pay...

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Kenyan mobile insurance startup InukaPap wins local seedstars world

Seedstars World is a Switzerland based startup competition that takes place in emerging markets. As it has been quite obvious, Kenya has been involved in almost every startup competition that you could possibly imagine. As the seedstar competition began...

Business

MTN Group & MMI Holdings launch aYO, a micro insurance solution for Africa

MTN Group and MMI Holdings, an insurance-based financial services player have launched aYo, a micro insurance solution for their customers across the Africa to increase penetration on the continent. Commenting on the partnership, Herman Singh, Group Chief Digital Officer of MTN...

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Increased cyberattacks in Insurance & Banking sector caused by luck of cybersecurity enhancement

CyberSecurity experts have urged the insurance and banking sector to implement their security levels in Information Communication Technology (ICT) practices. Currently over 20 million Kenyans access the internet through mobile devices, many of who use the same single device for...

Tech

Emerging cyber risks to take centre stage at Insurance conference

Insurance leaders and experts will next week converge in Nairobi at a major conference that seeks to stimulate growth in the industry and among the major topics will be insurance emerging cyber risks and application of analytics in making...

Business

APA launches Linda Salo Micro-insurance Product Targeting Low Income Workers

APA Insurance in association with Citadel Micro Insurance today launched the Linda Salo micro-insurance product for workers in Kenya expected to provide financial relief to employees against loss of their jobs, hospitalisation or loss of life. Linda Salo is designed...

Business

Resolution Insurance is investing $3m into technology to disrupt insurance in East Africa

Resolution Insurance is set to invest $3 million on technology to bring insurance services to the region’s 150 million plus people. Speaking to TechMoran, Resolution Insurance’s founder and CEO Peter Nduati said, ”We will use the money to launch new...

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Madison Insurance Deploys SAP’s Planning Solution For Enterprises

Kenya’s Madison Insurance Company that specializes on Life, Health, Home, Business and Auto covers has announced it has incorporated a planning solution from SAP that is currently live beginning January, this year. Personalized for Insurance companies, the Enterprise Resource Planning...

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