AI-powered Jerry raises $28M to help you save money on car insurance
When Art Agrawal was growing up in India, a car ride was a rare treat, and car ownership was a dream. When he moved to the U.S. and bought his first car, he was shocked by how much it cost and how difficult it was to maintain a car.
In 2012, he co-founded a company called YourMechanic (and won TechCrunch’s Disrupt that year) that provides on-demand automotive mobile maintenance and repair services. Over the years, the challenge of helping consumers more easily find car insurance was in the back of his mind. So in 2017, he teamed up with Lina Zhang and Musawir Shah to found Jerry, a mobile-first car ownership “super app.” The Palo Alto-based startup launched a car insurance comparison service using artificial intelligence and machine learning in January 2019. It has quietly since amassed nearly 1 million customers across the United States as a licensed insurance broker.
Jerry Raises $28M in Series B Funding
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Jerry Debuts with $57 Million in Total Funding
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Teens from 12 to 15 now qualify for Pfizer s COVID vaccine. But they won’t be counted towards the state’s benchmarks for reopening the state.
Federal officials are expected to lay out guidelines for inoculating younger teens on Wednesday, May 12. But Governor Gretchen Whitmer said during a stop in Kalamazoo the day before that rolling back pandemic restrictions still depends on the 16-plus standard. She says that’s why the statistics for adolescents will be kept separately, for now. We re not going to immediately roll on those numbers because it would artificially slow the progress that we re making, and we want to give people predictability and goals to focus on, and that s why the Vacc-to-Normal plan was so important.
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Voters in the Portage School District will consider a large bond issue in August. School Board trustees put the $175-million request on the ballot Monday, May 10.
If it s approved, Portage Superintendent Mark Bielang says the bond won t raise tax bills. That s because an older bond is expiring. We re fortunate to be in a very good financial situation in the district. And this is huge that you can do this amount of work with no increase to the existing debt levy. So, we re very fortunate to be in that position.
The money would be used to replace or upgrade aging elementary buildings. Bielang says it’s the third and final phase of a long-range plan to rebuild the district’s schools.