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Corridor launches with $25m to fix health benefits for small businesses

“For decades, small businesses have been sold the leftovers of the health insurance market,” said Nikhil Aggarwal, chief executive and co-founder of Corridor.

His company launched its AI benefits brokerage on Monday with $25m. Its plan is to change that with agents.

Bain Capital Ventures led the round. BoxGroup and Definition Capital took part. So did a long list of angel investors, whom the company describes in its announcement as founders and executives from OpenAI, Modal, Ramp, Scale AI, Oscar, Rogo, Decagon, Medallion, Reducto and Tennr. Dominic-Madori Davis reported the round for TechCrunch, which also carries the founders’ account of how the company started.

Why small companies get the leftovers

Corridor describes the gap it is aiming at as a question of economics rather than technology. A 20-person account earns a brokerage a fraction of what a large enterprise account earns. The work of quoting it, placing it and...

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Paramount settles lawsuit blocking $110 billion Warner Bros. merger

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Hideo Kojima Details Sony's Cold Breakup Call Over Zoom That Pushed Him To Xbox

It’s only been about two weeks since Hideo Kojima rocked the gaming world with the announcement that the much anticipated Physint, which is the successor to the iconic Metal Gear series, would now be happening in collaboration with Microsoft instead of Sony. In an interview with IGN, Kojima provided

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Dyson Won't Say What's Wrong With Its CameraJet Toothbrush

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Hyundai’s answer to the EV slowdown is building tens of thousands of robotaxis

Hyundai will build tens of thousands of Ioniq 5 robotaxis for Waymo at its plant in Georgia, chief executive Jose Munoz said, calling robotaxis the biggest new opportunity inside a slowing electric market. In Europe the only type approval route that works across the whole union for a fully automated

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