2021: A year of big insurtech deals

With COVID-19 and insurtech, there's a bit of a "chicken and the egg" phenomenon going on. The insurtech sector barely slowed down during the pandemic from an investment perspective. Is that because the pandemic spurred the industry to action and deploy more digital services to meet customers' demands? Or is it simply the natural progression toward digitalization that we're seeing across industries? Either way, insurtech leveled up in a big way this year, and here are some of the big deals that shook out as a result.