Plug and Play Tech Summer Summit 2019

Scouting innovative startups in InsurTech and Health

AXA Next Lab US recently attended Plug and Play’s annual Summer Summit to scout and view startup demos relevant to AXA Next’s verticals of focus. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Plug and Play is a leading innovation ecosystem that brings the best startups together with the world’s largest corporations with the objective to catalyze technological advancement. The organization offers 50+ accelerator programs annually, as well as empowers corporate innovation and venture capital investments in over 26 global locations. Since its inception, their startup network has raised over $6 billion in venture funding across InsurTech, Health, Mobility, IoT, Enterprise 2.0, Travel, Real Estate & Construction.

Over the course of two demo days, AXA Lab observed new solutions and approaches to help solve some of insurance and healthcare’s biggest problems.

Themes observed in the InsurTech sessions were centered around:

Areas of focus in Health sessions were on:

Below are a selection of startups that presented at the conference, categorized in InsurTech, Health, and Mobility. These mini-profiles also note which startups received Plug and Play’s esteemed Corporate Innovation and People’s Choice awards in their respective categories.

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