Happy New Year! Asia InsurTech Podcast is back with more exciting news kicking off 2021! Grab Financial Group (GFG) starts the year with a bang, securing over US$300 million in their series A funding round. According to Grab, GFG increased its...
For the last News Roundup of 2020, Theresa Blissing, Michael Waitze, and Shefali Sonpar reflected on what 2020 meant for InsurTech and digital transformation and what 2021 might look like. 2020 was the year that insurers all over the world were...
November ends with more news from Singlife. The newly formed holding company Aviva Singlife issues S$550m subordinated notes to be listed on the Singapore Exchange. The money collected will be used for funding the purchase of Aviva Singapore...
July started with major investment news coming out of India. SoftBank made another investment of USD 150 million into PolicyBazaar and holds now a 15% stake while CEO and co-founder Yashish Dahiya calls the investment a ‘mistake’. (Listen to...