ANNUITIES
Unqork, SE2 | December 22, 2020
Unqork, the leading enterprise no-code platform, today announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with SE2, a life and annuities insurance technology and services firm, to use the Unqork platform as a feature of its pre-incorporated, end-to-end life and annuity digital ecosystem. This partnership will empower SE2 to offer life and annuity insurance carriers a suite of solutions to streamline and modernize across the whole strategy lifecycle.
"SE2's partnership with Unqork provides insurers with a pre-built and fully integrated ecosystem, now with the added benefit of Unqork's no-code platform, to drive efficiencies and cost savings for insurers," said Mark Schultis, CEO, SE2. "I'm excited to partner with Unqork and jointly accelerate the digitization efforts of the insurance and retirement solutions industry."
SE2 has utilized Unqork's absolutely visual, intuitive no-code platform alongside the SE2 Aurum® digital platform to additional improve its insurance ecosystem for supporting the whole arrangement lifecycle, from beginning, new business, however strategy administration, servicing, claims, and payout. Together, SE2 and Unqork have made industry-specific digital capabilities needed for the end-to-end transformation of life and annuity insurance carriers. These capabilities support all distribution channels, including direct-to-consumer for both digital self-service and back office processing.
"Our partnership is driving the much-needed replacement of legacy systems and accelerating the trend towards automation and digitization in the life insurance and retirement solutions industry. Unqork's no-code platform is uniquely positioned to address this need in the market," said Rabih Ramadi, Head of Financial Services, Unqork. "Joining forces with an industry expert like SE2 provides an opportunity to showcase the real power of our platform and to build fully digital experiences for insurance carriers and the clients they serve."
About Unqork
Unqork is the industry pioneer no-code enterprise application platform that helps large companies build, deploy, and manage complex applications without writing a single line of code. Organizations like Goldman Sachs, Liberty Mutual, the Cities of New York and Washington, DC and Maimonides Medical Center are using Unqork's drag-and-drop interface to build enterprise applications faster, with higher quality, and lower costs than conventional approaches.
About SE2
SE2, an Eldridge business, is a life and annuities insurance technology and services firm. SE2 has a proven track record of enabling technology driven transformations. SE2 uniquely combines industry knowledge stemming from its 125+ years of life insurance heritage along with its end-to-end SE2 Aurum® technology platform to enable the rapid launch of new and innovative products through both traditional as well as digital channels. SE2 currently administers nearly 2 million active policies on behalf of its 25+ clients. SE2 has over $100 billion in assets under administration and handles more than 200,000 new business applications annually.
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Cision PR Newswire | August 06, 2020
Pie Insurance, one of the nation's leading insurtechs providing workers' compensation insurance to small businesses, today unveiled its partner portal. The portal uses proprietary technology that makes it easier for partner agents to submit their clients for workers' comp coverage and track their status in real time. The partner portal features an integrated appetite checker and can make automatic decisions on more than 70 percent of class codes. Pie's ability to auto-decide such a high percentage of class codes ensures agents get the information they need faster to better serve their clients.
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INSURANCE TECHNOLOGY
NEXT Insurance | September 16, 2021
NEXT Insurance, the leading digital insurtech company transforming small business insurance, today announced its strategic rebrand which will integrate small business owners from across the country into every part of the company's business, culture and ethos. NEXT's new brand ambition is inspired by the company's mission to help entrepreneurs thrive and is reflected through new creative work, still photography, visual assets, a website refresh and a commercial campaign to embolden small businesses to "Get Going." Additionally, the company will devote $4 million over the next three years to small businesses.
NEXT's commitment to small businesses is more than just a tagline on our website. It's deeply ingrained into our culture, Beyond our visual rebrand, we've commissioned small business owners across the U.S. to develop our company apparel and team gifts like sweatshirts, notebooks, sustainable tote bags and custom patches. We've engaged independent photographers and videographers to help capture real small businesses for new visual brand assets and have worked with independent musicians to create custom on hold music. Small businesses are more than just our customers - they make up our identity.
- Melanie Chase, Chief Marketing Officer at NEXT.
A key aspect of NEXT's latest brand is to elevate small businesses and demonstrate the company's support in helping them "Get Going." To bring this to life, NEXT partnered with local black and female-owned small businesses, independent musicians and other small business owners for activations to support its strategic rebrand. For example, NEXT purchased its corporate apparel from Stuzo Clothing, a woman-owned gender neutral street wear brand in Los Angeles, and licensed its "on hold" music directly from independent musicians across the country. Customers who contact the company's call center will enjoy songs from independent musicians as well as an exclusive artist introduction to each song.
Between the ongoing struggle of the legacy insurance industry's one-size-fits-all coverage and the immediate impact COVID-19 had on small businesses, NEXT's rebrand came at a critical time for small business owners. To better align the brand to its company ethos, NEXT partnered with independent strategy and design company COLLINS to bring to life and shape its small business-focused mission through a reimagined brand strategy, visual identity, logo, communications and website. Additionally, NEXT worked with global creative company BUCK and sound design company Barking Owl to create an animated advertising campaign to launch the new brand.
About NEXT Insurance:
NEXT Insurance is transforming small business insurance with simple, digital and affordable coverage tailored to the self-employed. Trusted by 300K business owners, NEXT offers policies that are easy to buy in 10 minutes or less and provides 24/7 access to Live Certificates of Insurance, Additional Insured, and more, with no extra fees. Revolutionizing a historically complicated insurance industry, NEXT utilizes AI and machine learning to simplify the purchasing process and drive down costs by up to 30% compared to traditional policies. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, has received a total of $881 million in venture capital funding, is rated "A- Excellent" by AM Best and has been recognized by Forbes Fintech 50, JMP Securities InsurTech 50 and Forbes Best StartUp Employers.
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