Home-Based Care. Humana’s $100 million investment last year into telehealth startup Heal, which enables the delivery of in-home primary care services to Humana members, is one of many recent forays by the insurer into home-based care. But through the Heal partnership, primary care services are delivered to a patient’s home on-demand through an app.

Leading US insurtechs Metromile and Hippo are collaborating on a discounted auto and homeowners insurance bundle. This will help the insurtechs better compete in the US’s crowded P&C market.

As Hurricane Ida and the Caldor and Dixie fires continue to haunt the US insurance industry, Amica Insurance is partnering with Zesty.ai to use its solution to better assess wildfire loss.

Founded in 2017, the insurtech offers policyholders the convenience of purchasing and managing all of their insurance needs in one place, including home, car, motorbike, and smartphone coverage. Users can easily change their policy coverage directly on the app if they need to add more home items or a second driver. Leocare also uses data to help avoid accidents.

But with global housing markets going gangbusters since the pandemic started, Urban Jungle’s home insurance made quite the splash. Drops in a multibillion-dollar bucket: Venture fund FinTLV raises $120M (2/2). We know, $120 million is a lot of money. But back in February, we had no idea just how much money would change hands in the fintech world (hint: It was roughly $120 billion).

In submitting its IPO plans, TypTap joins a wealth of fellow insurtechs also going public during another banner year for insurance IPOs.

Venture investments include Branch, which bundles home and auto insurance; Eigen, an intelligent document processing provider; and LocoNav, a telematics-based fleet management platform. What problem is it solving? Fintech has a gender diversity problem. As Deloitte put it, “It starts to look like an industry founded for men, run by men, making products for men.”.

The insurtech has added homeowners insurance alongside its existing renters coverage—combined with its flexible, affordable approach to policies, this could accelerate growth.

Insurify’s mega-round came on the back of strong revenue growth—adding new insurance lines and embedded partnerships should power further growth.

The IoT company has created a device that helps protect homes from water damage—as well as save water and decrease building material waste—to reduce insurance claims and payouts. Here’s how it works: A single sensor that a policyholder can install by themselves monitors a home’s water use.

More on Getsafe: The insurtech offers several lines of insurance across the P&C space, including home contents, personal liability, and auto insurance. Getsafe provides a fully digitized experience that lets users buy, manage, and cancel policies all within the app.

Insurtechs are disrupting numerous insurance lines with preemptive solutions that mitigate costly claims and help customers avoid damages—home insurtech Hippo’s policies come with smart home monitoring devices to identify issues like water leaks before they cause more damage.

The insurance comparison marketplace is eyeing a SPAC merger as it diversifies its product suite—yet another insurtech taking this route to enter the public markets.

But many of Tractable’s existing partners, including Geico and Covéa, offer home insurance and could potentially expand Tractable’s solution to cover new segments. This wouldn’t be the first time Tractable strengthened existing partnerships; it has been working with Covea since 2016 for claims management.

Another real estate app, roOomy, lets sellers virtually stage homes and create VR tours. With more broadband and lower latency, the sophistication of these renderings will grow. Banks can build on these experiences by creating APIs that feed information into these apps, such as estimated taxes or home insurance.

What’s been on our mind: In the wake of home insurtech Hippo’s SPAC merger earlier this week, we’re digging into what the future holds for companies using SPACs to go public. Hippo joins a wealth of fintechs that have opted to take the same path to a public listing: Fintech SoFi and payments firm Payoneer both completed SPAC mergers in June, while insurtech Clover made its public debut in January.