PicPay Wins Bacen Approval for Kovr, Adding Underwriting to 10M Policies
PicPay Kovr acquisition wins Bacen's final approval, moving Brazil's fintech giant from distribution into underwriting across its policy base.
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Lemonade’s Revenue Jumps 79% to $294.4M as Cession Rate Falls
Lemonade Q2 2026 revenue rose 79% to $294.4 million, but a lighter reinsurance cession rate drove much of the jump, not organic growth alone.
Hugging Face Confirms Autonomous AI Breach With 17,000 Logged Actions
Hugging Face's autonomous AI breach exposed 17,000 logged attacker actions, a wake-up call for cyber insurers pricing 2027 agentic-AI treaty risk.
Lemonade Lands $250m Hannover Re Facility to Fund Growth Spend
Lemonade Hannover Re financing: Hannover Re's $250m growth facility replaces General Catalyst as Lemonade approaches EBITDA breakeven in 2027.
Turaco’s Policy Sprint Reframes Microinsurance as Priceable Credit Risk
Microinsurance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Turaco ASA LifeCare enrolls 500,000 policies in four months; insured borrowers 60% less likely to default on loans.
Sixfold’s AI Underwriter Tests the Limits of Point-Solution Automation
Sixfold's AI Underwriter — the autonomous underwriting agent its $30M Series B was raised to build — is now in production at Skyward Specialty,…
Descartes & Nextpower Launch $80M Parametric Wind Cover for Solar Farms
Descartes Underwriting and Nextpower launch the first parametric straight-line wind solution for solar farms, with limits up to $100M and on-site sensor triggers.
HCI Group Brings $12M in Tokenized Reinsurance to Solana via SurancePlus
Tokenized reinsurance reaches the live market: SurancePlus issues three Solana-native HCI Re 2026 securities with a $5,000 minimum, targeting up to $12M in capital…
ICEYE’s €1bn+ Series F Bets on Satellite Data to Close the Global Nat-Cat Protection Gap
ICEYE closes €450M primary Series F led by General Atlantic at €10bn+ valuation, funding scale to 100 SAR satellites/year by 2028 to close nat-cat…
3IF Ventures Closes $12m First Round to Back Africa’s Inclusive Insurance Infrastructure Layer
3IF Ventures closes $12m first round — anchored by FSD Africa ($6m), Swiss Re Foundation ($5m) and Zep Re — to fund embedded insurance…