PARIS & ATHENS, Greece--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hellas Direct and Akur8 are delighted to announce their collaboration to strengthen Hellas Direct's top-notch pricing process for motor and home insurance! Hellas Direct is a fast growing, digital-first, full-stack insurtech leveraging cutting-edge technology and AI. With this new alliance, Akur8 enters the Greek insurance market, extending its already strong presence in Europe, and reinforces its footprint among tech-fuelled disruptive insurtechs. Specifically developed for insurers, Akur8's solution enhances pricing processes by automating rate making, using Transparent Artificial Intelligence proprietary technology. Core benefits for insurers include increased predictive performance of pricing models and accelerated speed-to-accuracy, unlocking higher market reactivity and immediate business impact, while maintaining full transparency and control on the models created.

Automating insurance claims is a big business, and the world of AI is coming at it'full pelt'. The latest is Akur8, an insurtech automating insurance platform whose'Transparent AI' product is trying to eat into the incumbent large business of Willis Towers watson, among others. It's now closed a Series B funding round of $30m led by an undisclosed investor. This brings its total funding to $42m. The round is to support international expansion.