Longevity research, applications, and its popularity in dinner conversations are gaining traction; and innovation in the field is growing exponentially. Very soon, people will live to be 130 years old, expanding also their productive years. This means maintaining vitality and living happier and healthier without chronic conditions. The best-selling books…

This summer marks the 30th anniversary of the trip in 1993 that changed my life. It seemed like a summer trip, but in reality, it was the beginning of a lifetime journey. I grew up in Muro, a small town in Spain, in a working-class family without an academic tradition…

Today I read that it costs Google about 1.06 cents to run a search query (including indirect costs), on which it generates 1.61 cents of revenue. According to some rough calculations, a ChatGPT query would cost ~0.36 cents. So a naive integration/addition of ChatGPT-like results into Google would be devastating…

Today marks the 3rd anniversary of the CoverWallet transaction! 🎉 Memorializing the signing of the CoverWallet transaction NYC, 2020youtube.com As we signed the deal, we wanted to take a moment to appreciate what just happened and memorialize the moment — it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience that few will ever experience. Becoming the global insurtech leader in commercial insurance was a…

This week marks 10 years since the acquisition of Pixable by SingTel, the world’s second-largest telco. I started Pixable with Andres Blank and Alberto Sheinfeld in early 2009 while we were at MIT. And we were pioneers in social photos on mobile with 12 million users. …

My last week at CoverWallet, an insurtech pioneer — This is my last week at CoverWallet. And it is very moving to reflect on my journey. The most important and intense chapter of my life started more than 6 years ago when insurtech did not even exist as a word; back then, insurance startups were “fintech’s“ until late 2016…

Today is an exciting day. We announced this morning that Aon has acquired CoverWallet, and we are now officially an Aon company. We launched CoverWallet back in 2016 to reinvent commercial insurance leveraging data science, beautiful design, and technology. And since then we have grown — tens of thousands of…

CoverWallet is excited to introduce a new initiative for high-growth startups It’s a fact: startups need to have insurance. They need to protect their property, their employees, their products and services, their founders and executives, and several other parts of their business. …

And we are also expanding our executive team — I’m excited to share that CoverWallet has raised $18.5 million in Series B funding, led by Foundation Capital, with participation from our previous investors Union Square Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Index Ventures, and CV Starr. The new funding will further our mission to reinvent insurance for small businesses delivering an…