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Arbital Health Announces Esteemed Leadership Team and Advisory Board Accelerating Shift to Value-Based Care

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Tuesday, December 19, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arbital Health, a technology startup focused on accelerating the healthcare industry's transition to value-based care, today announced its leadership team and advisors. Arbital Health announced its launch in November 2023 to solve the problem of misaligned incentives in healthcare. By creating a neutral, 3rd party utility that enables all market participants to better design, measure, and adjudicate value-based care contracts, the company will accelerate the $1 trillion shift to value-based care in the US healthcare system.

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  • Arbital Health announced its launch in November 2023 to solve the problem of misaligned incentives in healthcare.
  • Arbital today announced its leadership team made up of experienced healthcare and technology leaders.
  • To support the management team in its mission to solve incentive misalignment in healthcare, Arbital Health has also assembled an exemplary Senior Advisory Board.
  • "A key first step in building Arbital Health was assembling an all-star management team and advisory board," said Travis May, CEO of Shaper Capital and Chairman of Arbital Health.

Overture Maps Foundation Names Amy Rose as Technical Director

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Overture Maps Foundation (OMF), a collaborative effort to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map data, today announced Amy Rose as its first technical director.

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  • Rose brings decades of experience in geospatial science, tech to the new role
    SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Overture Maps Foundation (OMF), a collaborative effort to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map data, today announced Amy Rose as its first technical director.
  • "We welcome Amy to OMF to help us set and carry out the technical direction to become the global, collaborative home for building and maintaining high quality open map data," said Marc Prioleau, executive director, OMF.
  • "OMF is putting resources behind something that is long overdue: interoperable map data  that's essential to building the best possible map services," said Rose.
  • I look forward to collaborating with the entire OMF ecosystem as we create this foundation of open map data for others to build upon."

Overture Maps Foundation Releases First World-Wide Open Map Dataset

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Overture Maps Foundation (OMF), a collaborative effort to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map products, today announced the release of its first open map dataset. 

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Overture Maps Foundation (OMF), a collaborative effort to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map products, today announced the release of its first open map dataset.
  • Initial dataset establishes a baseline of open map data, including newly released data of 60 million places worldwide.
  • "The Overture 2023-07-26-alpha.0 release is a significant step in establishing a comprehensive, market-grade open map dataset for our constantly changing world.
  • The Places dataset, in particular, represents a major, previously unavailable open dataset, with the potential to map everything from new businesses big and small to pop-up street markets located anywhere in the world," said Marc Prioleau, executive director of Overture Maps Foundation.

Everspan and Aurenity Partner on Excess Casualty Buffer Program

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Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Everspan Group, Rated A- (Excellent) by AM Best, and tech-enabled MGA Aurenity have launched a new program to provide excess casualty buffer coverage for mid-market construction, hospitality, real estate, premises, and products risks.

Key Points: 
  • Everspan Group, Rated A- (Excellent) by AM Best, and tech-enabled MGA Aurenity have launched a new program to provide excess casualty buffer coverage for mid-market construction, hospitality, real estate, premises, and products risks.
  • The program addresses the demand for buffer layer coverage between the primary market and increased average attachments in the excess space.
  • The program will be underwritten by Aurenity’s excess casualty team led by Janet Beaver, and distribution will be through wholesale E&S brokers.
  • “We are thrilled to partner with Aurenity on this program,” said Steve Dresner, President of Everspan Group.

Aurenity Leverages Verisk Solutions for Risk Insight and Pricing in E&S Market

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Thursday, September 8, 2022

The MGA is enabling its market-leading underwriting talent with cutting-edge technology from Verisk to create differentiated risk insight and pricing as part of its Augment models.

Key Points: 
  • The MGA is enabling its market-leading underwriting talent with cutting-edge technology from Verisk to create differentiated risk insight and pricing as part of its Augment models.
  • Aurenity has used a variety of Verisk products and services to help develop its platform, including:
    Insurance consulting: Actuarial experts in Verisks Insurance Consulting unit have helped Aurenity develop customized rating plans.
  • Aurenity is poised to capitalize on the speed, accuracy and consistency of underwriting data, predictive modeling and hands-on actuarial expertise only Verisk can provide.
  • Aurenity is blending market leading underwriting talent withcuttingedge analytics to create a new MGA for the E&S market.

Aurenity Partners With Origami Risk for Underwriting Technology Platform

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Friday, July 15, 2022

Aurenity, a newly launched tech-enabled E&S MGA, today announced it has selected Origami Risk as its technology partner to develop its core underwriting platform.

Key Points: 
  • Aurenity, a newly launched tech-enabled E&S MGA, today announced it has selected Origami Risk as its technology partner to develop its core underwriting platform.
  • Founded by leading underwriting executives and technology experts, Aurenity is building a cutting-edge underwriting ecosystem to deliver sophisticated pricing, speed-to-market adjustments, and best-in-class service.
  • Origami Risk is a highly configurable solution that will be central to our underwriting ecosystem, said Patrick Safino, COO of Aurenity.
  • Were delighted that Aurenity has selected our versatile, true SaaS insurance technology solution for its underwriting platform, said Chris Bennett, president, Core Solutions at Origami Risk.

Agman Launches New Tech-Enabled Managing General Agent via $10 Million Investment in Aurenity

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Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Chicago-based investor Agman has announced the latest addition to its expansive insurance platform with the launch of Aurenity, a new tech-enabled Managing General Agent (MGA) targeting the Excess and Surplus (E&S) market.

Key Points: 
  • Chicago-based investor Agman has announced the latest addition to its expansive insurance platform with the launch of Aurenity, a new tech-enabled Managing General Agent (MGA) targeting the Excess and Surplus (E&S) market.
  • The new venture has received $10 million in seed investment from Agman.
  • Agman is built around backing entrepreneurs and we have no doubt Aurenity will flourish under his leadership.
  • Aurenity is blending market leading talent with cutting edge underwriting analytics to deliver a new MGA for the E&S market.