Insurtech Spotlight: Zelros

“The insurance industry has a long way to go to become a customer centric industry”

Jaskeet Briah
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In the final part of a series of profiles on insurtech firms that are doing something different, Jaskeet Briah speaks to Damien Philippon, co-founder and chief executive of Montréal-based software as a service (SaaS) provider, Zelros, about its business proposition and growth plans.

Founded in 2016, Zelros is a business-to-business (B2B) independent software vendor developing artificial intelligence (AI) for insurers, carriers, brokers, reinsurers and bancassurance players within life insurance and Property & Casualty (P&C). Zelros offers personalised insurance recommendations for both personal and small business lines based on artificial intelligence (AI), supports automation from cover subscription to claim handling, and deploys and monitors AI-driven processes in production. "Insurance organisations are historically product-centric organisations and the indust...

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