Kin's mission is to reimagine home insurance For Every New Normal. Kin is built for the future and prepared to meet its challenges head on while helping our customers do the same. Levering business tech innovation, they bring affordable pricing without compromising coverage and service to their customers. Our guest for this episode is returning Sean Harper, Co-Founder & CEO of Kin. With almost four years since our first conversation with Sean (Episode 53), it was about time for us to revisit...
May 06, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 218
Sana is building better health plans for small businesses. Founded in 2017 on the belief that quality healthcare should be understandable, accessible, and affordable for all, Sana is going above and beyond the status quo with health plans that provide high-quality healthcare while keeping costs down. Our guest for this episode is Will Young, Co-Founder & CEO of Sana. Prior to Sana, Will helped hundreds of small business owners manage payroll and benefits as the head of operations at Justwork...
Apr 28, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 217
AV8 Ventures (AV8) backs early-stage start-ups focused on healthcare, enterprise, financial services and deep-tech. Their mission is to help founders build category-defining companies; they commit early and partner for the long term. While they are full lifecycle investors, AV8 typically starts their partnership with Seed or Series A investments. They are backed by Allianz, one of the leading integrated financial services providers worldwide. Our guest for this episode is Amir Kabir, General Par...
Apr 22, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 216
Openly provides premium insurance that is robust in coverage and simple to administer. They were created because they saw a gap in the market for premium insurance made simple and rebuilt the insurance technology and operations stack to create a remarkably simple product for agents with robust coverage for consumers. As a previous guest company on the podcast, we bring on Gina Reyes, VP of Claims, to talk about claims, building a claims department, creating the Openly culture, and more. To learn...
Apr 14, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 215
CCC keeps people's lives moving forward when it matters most. Founded in 1980, CCC is a technology leader pioneering solutions that power insurers, automotive manufacturers, collision repairers, parts suppliers, lenders, fleet operators and more through our advanced cloud-based SaaS platform of digital and data services. CCC is a trusted leader in AI, IoT, network management, customer experience, and digital workflows. Returning to the show is Marc Fredman, SVP, Chief Strategy Officer at CCC. Wi...
Apr 08, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 214
Attila Toth is the Co-founder & CEO of ZestyAI, a property risk analytics platform powered by artificial intelligence that offers access to precise intelligence about every property in North America. ZestyAI's value proposition is simple: deliver risk and value insights about each and every property. They leverage aerial imagery, permit, transaction, weather and IoT data, combined with artificial intelligence (AI) to turn more than 200 billion data points into comprehensive digital records a...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 213
Ali Geramian is the Managing Director at Anthemis, a global platform that cultivates change in the financial system by investing in, growing, and sustaining businesses committed to resiliency, transparency, access, and equity. With an impressive portfolio that includes some of our past guests (Branch, flo, and Vouch), we bring Ali on to explore and understand what Anthemis is, their involvement, the current state of insuretech, a typical day for Ali, and much more. Join Ali, Rob, and Lee on an e...
Mar 24, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 212
Michael Konialian is the CEO and Co-Founder of Modern Life, a life insurance company working to transform the life insurance industry and help everyone protect what matters most. Modern Life is aiming to innovate and streamline the life insurance process--from client, to advisor, to underwriter--faster, more confident, and more streamlined than ever before. Join Michael, Rob, and Lee as they discuss what Modern Life is, accelerated underwriting processes, brokerage innovation, building trust wit...
Mar 17, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 211
Kyle Nakatsuji is the CEO and Co-Founder of Clearcover, a next generation insurance company providing smarter car insurance for digital consumers. Since co-founding Clearcover in 2016, Kyle remains laser-focused on his vision to build a company designed to lower operating costs through innovative technology and long-term customer centricity. Join Kyle, Rob, and Lee as they talk about Clearcover, Kyle's history in Clearcover and in venture capital; Kyle's four-pillar approach, startup success, an...
Mar 03, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 210
It's always a pleasure to have American Family Ventures (AmFam Ventures) on the show, and this week we bring on Kyle Beatty, Managing Director, to talk his position and experience; perspective and thoughts on venture capital; personal health, insuretech trends, and much more. AmFam Ventures operates at the forefront of insurance, and has developed an ecosystem of limited partners, founders, and innovators, from across all major lines and beyond, to join them in the pursuit of one goal: To shape ...
Feb 24, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 209
Join Rob and Lee as they talk with Mike Fulton, former President of Property Estimating Solutions at Verisk and the new President of Property Estimating Solutions at Verisk, Aaron Brunko, in our special edition of FNO: InsureTech, recorded live at the 2023 Verisk Elevate Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Join Rob and Lee as they discuss the present and past with Mike, as well as the future and what's next for Verisk and their solutions with Aaron. Two great conversations that celebrate Verisk ...
Feb 20, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 208
Rob and Lee talk with Ellen Carney, Principal Analyst at Forrester. Ellen serves decision makers in roles such as CIOs and enterprise architects in the insurance and wealth, investment, and asset management industries. Her research focuses on the technology decisions that financial services firms are investing in, including core platforms modernization and replacement and the integration of emerging technologies with legacy systems to drive better digital experiences and improved operational eff...
Feb 13, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 207
Join Rob and Lee as they talk with Joseph "Joe" Petrelli, President and Co-founder of Demotech on this episode of FNO: Insuretech you don't want to miss. Demotech leverages information to help assign an informed Financial Stability Rating® (FSR). FSRs help level the playing field for financially stable insurers and are based upon a series of quantitative ratios and certain qualitative factors. The rating process provides an objective baseline for assessing solvency based upon changes in financia...
Feb 06, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 206
FNO: InsureTech continues its dive into venture capital, and this week we're happy to have Andrew Lerner, Managing Partner of IA Capital Group, on the show. Andrew is responsible for the day-to-day activities of IA Capital and is a member of its investment committee. Join Lee and Rob as they talk with Andrew and learn more about IA Capital Group, their past investments, Insuretech 2.0, chess, and more on this episode you don't want to miss. To learn more about IA Capital Group, visit https://www...
Jan 27, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 205
Aquiline's venture capital group, Aquiline Technology Growth (ATG), is dedicated to making early and growth stage investments across Insuretech, Fintech and related Enterprise. With several of our past insuretech guests having been grown and supported by Aquiline, FNO: InsureTech wanted to bring them on the podcast to learn more about ATG, how they're funding insuretech, and to pick the mind of the Max Chee, Partner and Head. Join Max and Rob on this episode that dives into venture capital and m...
Jan 20, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 204
FNO: Insuretech brings back former guest and friend of the show, Adam Kostecki, Founder & Principal Consultant of Insurtech Innovations, to continue the conversation of innovation in insurance. Join us as we continue to pick Adam's mind in this follow-up conversation you don't want to miss. Listen to Part I of our conversation with Adam. To learn more about Insurtech Innovations, contact Adam via email at adam@insurtechinnovations.com or connect with him on LinkedIn ....
Jan 06, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 203
Mulberri is an intelligent business insurance platform that HR and payroll providers, brokers, small-medium businesses, and carriers trust to help them be more efficient and productive when writing business together. Mulberri leverages technology to connect people and help them make intelligent data-driven decisions to make the business insurance process simple, efficient, and transparent. Join Rob and Lee as they talk with Hamesh Chawla, Co-Founder & CEO at Mulberri. To learn more about Mul...
Dec 30, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 202
FNO: InsureTech revisits with former guest Dan Woods, Founder & CEO, of Socotra. As a modern platform for technology-driven insurers founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, Socotra is the first cloud-native core platform for insurance and the first core system to believe its APIs and configuration formats should be open to the world. Join Dan, Rob, and Lee as they catch on the continued success of Socotra, Dan's experience, insights on insuretech and embedded insurance, and much more. To...
Dec 16, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 201
On this week's episode we celebrate the 200th episode of FNO: InsureTech! While we're away celebrating, some of our guests have left some kind words in our voicemail. Join Rob and Lee keep it short and sweet as they talk about the origin of the podcast, share some special moments, and give shoutouts to notable guests. Like what you hear on FNO: InsureTech? Know someone who would be a great guest for the podcast? Let us know: Email us at almoss@alacritysolutions.com.
Dec 09, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 200
On this week's episode we bring on the podcast an insuretech whose mission is to make it radically simple to get the right business insurance for the best price: Embroker. Embroker is leveraging the latest technology to make policies more tailored, less expensive, and easier to purchase. As the first company where businesses can apply for all types of commercial insurance online and manage their policies through a modern cloud-based portal, they continue to make strides in innovating the busines...
Dec 02, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 199
Rob and Lee talk with Adam Kostecki, Founder & Principal Consultant of InsurTech Innovations, LLC. With over 20 years of carrier experience and innovation expertise, Adam continues his passion of embracing insurance and technology in a new light as he sets out on a new journey with his own consulting and advisory service. Join Adam, Rob, and Lee as they talk origins, experience, IoT, leveraging innovation, Bob Villa, EVs, and more. To learn more about Insurtech Innovations, contact Adam via ...
Nov 29, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 198
Rob and Lee dive into the agent space and talk with Jason Keck , Co-founder & CEO of Broker Buddha . Broker Buddha is empowering agents, bringing a world-class experience and the tools to take client services to the next level. Their vision is simple: A connected, digital world where you can quickly get insurance for your business through a simple online experience. Join Jason, Rob, and Lee as they hear the founding story of Broker Buddha, the agency side of insuretech, changing the way insu...
Nov 18, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 197
Rob and Lee talk with return guest Ali Safavi, Co-founder & CEO of COVU. COVU's mission is to help both everyday people and professional advisors manage risk and insurance better through helping fill in their coverage gaps and achieve true peace of mind. COVU works with a broad range of carriers and hand-picked agents while leveraging artificial intelligence and an outstanding service team to provide customers with simple one-stop shopping for insurance products. Join Ali, Rob, and Lee as th...
Nov 14, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 196
Join Rob and Lee as they talk with Jim Dwane, CEO of bolt. bolt is the world's largest P&C insurance exchange, matching distributors with providers on a single digital platform. With over 100 carriers in their exchange that spans across all 50 states, their network of over 7.5 million active users is driving insurance and insurance innovation forward. Learn more about bolt, their exchange, thoughts on embedded insurance, and much more. Like what you hear on FNO: InsureTech? Know someone who ...
Nov 04, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 195
Join Rob and Lee as they talk with Jamie Trish, President of the recently "out of stealth" insuretech Fairmatic. With their recent raise of $42M, they're on a road to redefine commercial auto insurance with data and artificial intelligence. Join Jamie, Rob, and Lee as they talk Fairmatic, Jamie's experience, the startup culture, and much more. Don't miss this great interview! Like what you hear on FNO: InsureTech? Know someone who would be a great guest for the podcast? Let us know: Email us at ...
Oct 07, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 194
Join Rob and Lee as they talk with Dr. Josephine Wolff, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University; and author of the book "Cyberinsurance Policy: Rethinking Risk in an Age of Ransomware, Computer Fraud, Data Breaches, and Cyberattacks". Don't miss this great episode as they discuss cybersecurity and cyberinsurance, two interesting topics that have only drawn more attention and discussion in the insurance, technology, and their intersection. Check out ...
Sep 30, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 193
Rob heads to Los Angeles on this week's episode to talk with Garret Gray, President of Protect at CoreLogic. Join Rob and Garret as they talk Next Gear Solutions, its acquisition by CoreLogic, Garret's persona experience and journey, and what the future holds for insuretech and innovation. Like what you hear on FNO: InsureTech? Know someone who would be a great guest for the podcast? Let us know: Email us at almoss@alacritysolutions.com.
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 192
In our annual tradition, FNO: InsureTech talks with InsureTech Connect founders Jay Weintraub and Caribou Honig. Join Jay, Caribou, Rob, and Lee in this great conversation as they talk about the annual conference, its history and current state, insuretech 2.0, and much more. ITC 2022 happens from September 20-22, 2022. We wish all the attendees a wonderful time celebrating insurance and technology, and the intersection between that continues to evolve and innovate the verticals. Like what you he...
Sep 19, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 191
FNO: Insuretech talks with Kevin Mitchell, President of TypTap Insurance (TypTap). TypTap provides quality insurance without the hassle, modernizing the way you interact with insurance companies. Policies are created with you in mind, are quick to bind, and are built to offer security, stability, and simplicity. They're not new to insurance - they're just taking a fresh approach to it. Join Kevin, Rob, and Lee in this great conversation as they learn more about TypTap's history, their growth of ...
Sep 09, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 190
Rob & Lee talk with Joseph D'Souza, CEO of ProNavigator, on this week's episode of FNO: InsureTech. Information powers your insurance business. But when that information is buried deep inside many different portals and drives, finding what you need can be painfully slow. ProNavigator puts the information you need at your fingertips, leveraging tech and innovation to drive knowledge management for the on-demand era. Underwriting manuals, policy wordings, job aids, process manuals, bulletins, ...
Aug 29, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 190
