A LifeTech incubator.

Joel Albarella, head of New York Life Ventures, discusses New York Life’s pioneering and present-day efforts around InsurTech and LifeTech. Some key points:

• New York Life has been focused on innovative startups in the insurance space since 2012—before InsurTech even existed. InsurTech evolved as a subset of FinTech.
• New York Life coined the phrase “LifeTech” to classify startups that were decidedly not InsurTech but were germane to life insurance.
• These startups help accelerate New York Life’s ‘speed to insight.’
• The marketplace is validating our approach of investing outside of the traditional InsurTech vertical.

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