Market Trends of Insurtech Industry
This section covers the major market trends shaping the Insurtech Market according to our research experts:
Leading trends among insurtech firms worldwide
Digital technology is disrupting industry after industry. Most insurers, though, do not have innovation in their DNA. Regulation has curbed incumbents’ ability to experiment, while limited competition has given them no particular need to do so. Although there is a significant opportunity to capture value in the short term by digitizing their current business, they will get left behind if they fail simultaneously to use digital technology to innovate and build new business. Digitization and ubiquitous data communications have enabled companies to build global supply chains. The infographic shows the % share of insurers planning to invest in selected innovations worldwide.
Insights on Investments into Insurance Tech Companies
It's hard for big carriers to innovate as they have so much to contend already such as legacy issues. But to be in the game they tune up their IT spending which is used by collaborating with insurtech startups. NOt just the legacy players, insurtech attract investors also. Overall investment in InsurTech start-ups increased from USD 0.3 billion in 2013 to US$2.2 billion in 2017 at a CAGR of 69.2%. The investment reached USD 2.7 billion at its peak in 2015. We observed that the volume of early-stage investments into insurance tech companies is on a rise over the years. Early-stage (Seed/Series A) funding accounted for more than 60% of the number of InsurTech deals that took place in 2017, while the funding amount only accounted for around 30%. Early-stage funding increased by a CAGR of more than 50% from 2013 to 2017. 46% of the deals in 2017 took place in North America, followed by Europe. Property & casualty was the most dominating segment of the global investments followed by multiline and health insurance segments.
