{"id":76710,"date":"2025-04-04T12:34:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=76710"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T03:37:41","slug":"friendly-ai-gets-a-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2025\/04\/04\/friendly-ai-gets-a-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendly AI Gets a Boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xceedance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xceedance<\/a>, a global provider of insurance-focused consulting with a offices in NSW, has invested in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendlycares.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friendly<\/a>, an AI company focused on life and health underwriting, claims management, and risk assessment processes.<\/p>\n<p>Friendly\u2019s flagship platform transforms complex medical and third-party data into structured, AI-ready insights, for life, disability, long-term care, critical illness, casualty and reinsurance underwriters assessing risk, states\u00a0Xceedance CEO <strong>Arun Balakrishnan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_76713\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76713\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76713\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/04\/Arun_Balakrishnan.jpg\" alt=\"Arun Balakrishnan, CEO, Xceedance\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arun Balakrishnan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Friendly\u2019s AI-driven technology stands out for its ability to enhance underwriting and claims decisions with speed, accuracy and security,&#8221; said Balakrishnan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This investment reflects the shared vision of Xceedance and Friendly to make life and health insurance operations more intelligent and efficient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFriendly empowers underwriters, claim teams and internal data science teams with AI-driven insights that simplify complex decision-making.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xceedance, a global provider of insurance-focused consulting with a offices in NSW, has invested in Friendly, an AI company focused on life and health underwriting, claims management, and risk assessment processes. Friendly\u2019s flagship platform transforms complex medical and third-party data into structured, AI-ready insights, for life, disability, long-term care, critical illness, casualty and reinsurance underwriters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":76715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8286,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","category-company-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}