The Global Insurance Accelerator has announced seven companies that will participate in the 2024 accelerator program beginning Jan. 10. The 100-day program will operate in a hybrid format with in-person and virtual portions, concluding with the companies’ presentations at the Global Insurance Symposium on April 17. The GIA has also hired Jenni Gruenisen as its new alumni director, who will focus on building relationships and connections with alumni cohort companies as well as the broader insurtech ecosystem to support cohorts after they exit the accelerator program. She has experience as a mediator, attorney, coach, teacher and community volunteer, according to the announcement. She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and her Juris Doctor degree from Drake University.
The members of the 2024 GIA cohort are:
- AppEase, a digital health data company modernizing medical record retrieval for insurance underwriting and claims processing through digital health data access, aggregation and analysis.
- Cybercade, a learning and assessment platform for cybersecurity delivered through video games. We provide incentive-based training for organizations seeking to educate, inform and defend their employees from cyber attacks.
- Innocuous AI creates easy-to-use AI solutions that boost productivity of those in the insurance industry while making their work more enjoyable, and enhancing customer experiences.
- Lotus Fertility Insurance aims to build an affordable, supplemental insurance product designed to help cover the out-of-pocket costs for fertility treatments and services.
- Sehteq Inc. connects prescribing physicians to payers for approvals and connects the patient to a network pharmacy or cloud pharmacy for home delivery.
- Tumbleweed aims to digitize the fragmented and overwhelming experience of funeral and end-of-life planning.
- Tylmen provides non-invasive health data to insurance providers, allowing them to issue life insurance policies digitally, quickly and accurately.