ACKO GENERAL INSURANCE
ZHONGAN
“ Offering more personalisation and greater speed and efficiency of services , insurtechs are using artificial intelligence
( AI ) machine learning , the Internet of Things ( IoT ) and other tools to reimage the way insurers do busines ”
49 members ’ first visits to the doctor being routed through its technology and customer service teams .
ACKO GENERAL INSURANCE
With investors including Amazon , SAIF Partners , Accel Partners and Catamaran Ventures , Acko General Insurance is digital insurance firm based in India . The company raised a total of $ 42mn in funding and earned the 2nd spot on the Post Insurtech 100 ranking . The Mumbai-based startup was founded in 2017 by Varun Dua .
ZHONGAN
Touting itself as “ China ’ s first complete online insurance company ”, ZhongAn has claimed the top spot on the Post Insurtech leaderboard . The company ’ s CEO is Jin “ Jeffrey Chen ” but it was initially cofounded by some of the country ’ s most renowned business magnates including Alibaba ’ s Jack Ma , Tencent ’ s Pony Ma and Ping An Insurance ’ s Mingzhe Ma . In 2017 , the Chinese insurer raised $ 1.5bn in its IPO in what the Financial Times described as “ the world ’ s first insurtech public offering .”
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