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Life insurance startup Getlife becomes Life5 and raises $10.7 million

Spanish startup Life5 has raised its third funding round and has been growing nicely since my previous post. The company also has a new name as it used to be called Getlife. In addition to its home co...

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When an Annuity Is a Good Idea for Retirement (and When It's Not)

When it comes to planning your retirement, there's often a lot of confusion. While socking money away to earn tax-deferred interest is a pretty simple concept, the wide variety of ways you can do that...

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Ole Life wants to make buying life insurance for Latin Americans easier

Life insurance isn't something that young, healthy people typically consider buying. It also isn't always that accessible to those with lower income or easy to buy: It can mean a medical exam and lots...

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Pale Blue Dot backs Amini, an African climate tech startup solving environmental data scarcity

Amini, a Nairobi-based climate tech startup focused on solving Africa's environmental data gap through artificial intelligence and satellite technology, has raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding rou...

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Insurtech bolttech gets $196M at $1.6B valuation from investors like MetLife

Embedded insurtech is still hot, as the $196 million in funding landed by bolttech proves. The company, which started in Singapore but now has operations around the world, said it is now valued at $1....

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Cold-chain startup Figorr raises $1.5M, backs the roll out of data-driven perishables insurance

Oghenetega Iortim built Nigerian-based cold chain startup Figorr after imagining better means of storage and transportation of temperature-sensitive products, following the post-harvest losses from hi...

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How Soon You Should Update Your ID and Registration After Moving

The list of places to update your address when you move is long and the process tedious, whether you're heading to a new neighborhood or across the country. While some of these updates are important b...

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The crackdown on pixel tracking in telehealth is a warning for every startup

Healthcare startups are scrambling to reassess how their websites and apps are built, and how third parties may, inadvertently or not, be putting patients' protected health information at risk.In Marc...

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Here's What Happens When Everyone Panics and Pulls Money Out of Banks

Last month, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was the second-biggest bank failure in U.S. history. News of bank failures naturally fuels concerns for bank customers everywhere, so you might be...

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Gradient Ventures backs Axle's 'Plaid for insurance' approach to data verification

The inability to accurately assess risk for insurance purposes is costing the industry a lot of money. Earlier this year, State Farm reported that its property and casualty underwriting business took ...

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Daily Crunch: Don't post your darkest, deepest secrets on Twitter Circle

To get a roundup of TechCrunch's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Happy Monday Crunch! There's just one month left to submit nominatio...

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Selling insurance is hard, but that's not bad news for insurtechs

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When healthcare is decided by algorithms, who wins?

I'm starting this with a personal story. My mother was a New York City public school teacher for many years. When she joined the school system, part of the deal was that, when she retired, many of the...

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