{"id":13097,"date":"2021-07-25T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/should-we-be-worried-about-insurtech-valuations\/"},"modified":"2021-07-25T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T19:49:08","slug":"should-we-be-worried-about-insurtech-valuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/tech\/should-we-be-worried-about-insurtech-valuations\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we be worried about insurtech valuations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It\u2019s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Hello everyone, I hope you had a lovely week. I turned 32 after experiencing sleep-destroying heartburn. So, a little good and a little bad. But that didn\u2019t stop the markets. Nope. Not a bit. Which means we have a lot to talk about, including falling insurtech stocks and what the situation might mean for startups, and a raft of IPOs. This will be fun! Before we get into the nitty-gritty of our chats with newly public companies Kaltura, Couchbase and Enovix, let\u2019s talk insurtech. In the last year or so we\u2019ve seen a number of insurtech startups go public, including Root (auto insurance), Metromile (car insurance), and Lemonade (rental insurance). Here\u2019s a quick digest of how their performance looks today: Root: $7.72 per share, 71.4% down from its $27 per share IPO price. Metromile: $7.26 per share, down 64.4% from&#8230; Click below to read the full story from TechCrunch<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/j7Rp8a_Hz3A\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It\u2019s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Hello everyone, I hope you had a lovely week. I turned 32 after experiencing sleep-destroying heartburn. 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