Nigel Walsh and John Bean are joined by a fantastic panel of guest to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of insurtech. Joining us today: Janthana Kaenprakhamroy, CEO of Tapoly Nikki Daniels, Founder and Director of e-Zee Insurance Solutions We cover the following stories: Cost-of-living crisis hits insurtech start-ups as deals dry up - 3:10 Ian threatens Florida's already unstable insurance market - 18:45 Zopper raises $75m to solve India’s insurance problem - 32:40 Insurtech...
Oct 19, 2022•58 min
Benjamin Ensor and David M. Brear are joined by some fantastic guests to discuss open insurance. Open banking has been at the forefront of news over the last couple of years, and for good reason - it has affected the wider financial services industry massively in recent years. However, what does that mean for insurtech and the insurance industry more generally, and what could open insurance look like? Join us while we explore what open insurance could mean, what the opportunities and challenges ...
Oct 05, 2022•53 min
Nigel Walsh and John Bean are joined by some fantastic guests to discuss climate insurance. Join us while we take a look at climate insurance. Climate change is curently affecting our planet in catastrophic ways, and insurance is playing a big role in how we can think about our future. So today we’re asking : “Our climate is changing – should insurers be doing more?” Join us while we take a deep dive into this very urgent topic, and take a look at what the insurance sector is currently doing, wh...
Sep 28, 2022•53 min
Benjamin Ensor and John Bean are joined by a fantastic panel of guests to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of insurtech. Joining us today: Andy Cohen, President of Snapsheet Nikki Daniels, Founder and Director of e-Zee Insurance Solutions We cover the following stories: Insurtech funding bounces back after global downturn Lloyd’s to end insurance coverage for state cyber attacks Swiss insurtech startup grape picks up €1.7 million to reinvent employee insurance Lemonade clos...
Sep 07, 2022•1 hr
Nigel Walsh and John Bean are joined by some fantastic guests to discuss designing and building for trust and transparency in insurance. Join us while we take a look at how important design is in insurance, how things currently stand today, and how big of a role trust and transparency play in creating a good relationship with your customer. Joining us today: Jacqueline Legrand, CEO and Co-founder, Maptycs Ali MacManus, Lead Designer, 11:FS Ventures All that and much more on this week's episode o...
Aug 24, 2022•51 min
Nigel Walsh and John Bean are joined by a fantastic guest to talk about insurance brokers. We’ll be taking a look at what they do and when they’re needed, explore some more of the in and outs of the role in the current landscape, and then turn to look at what their future looks like. Will technology erase the need for them, or will it simply force them to change and adapt? Joining us today: Mark Costello, CEO of Hubb All that and much more on this week's episode of Insurtech Insider! Subscribe s...
Aug 10, 2022•48 min
Nigel Walsh and John Bean are joined by a fantastic panel of guest to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of insurtech. Joining us today: Antton Pena, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Flock Tim Hardcastle, CEO of Instanda Ruth Foxe Blader, Partner at Anthemis We cover the following stories: No-code insurtech scale-up Instanda raises £37m - 3:37 Insurance start-ups face credibility crisis - 21:00 YuLife picks up $120m at an $800m valuation for gamified, wellness-focused li...
Jul 27, 2022•55 min
Nigel Walsh and Benjamin Ensor are joined by a fantastic guest to take a deep dive into insurance education. Education has been the focus of many financial campaigns and initiatives over the last few years - but what about insurance? Is insurance getting the attention it needs? Filled with jargon and complex policies, our sector is notoriously hard to figure out. Join us while we take a deep dive into the challenges in education, what we can do to invest more back into our customers, and how we ...
Jul 13, 2022•47 min
Nigel Walsh and John Bean are joined by a panel of fantastic guests to talk through all things culture in insurance. Culture is a very wide topic and can cover a variety of lenses: the culture of innovation, the move towards a digital culture, social culture, which is a topic that we have covered here on the podcast quite a lot - especially with our recent ESG podcast, and many more cultural lenses. Culture in insurance has a bad rep, and for good reason with recemt press reports, but it might n...
Jun 29, 2022•57 min
Nigel Walsh and John Bean are joined by a fantastic panel of guest to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of insurtech. Joining us today: Mark Musson, CEO, Humn Charlotte Halkett, Chief Underwriting Officer, ManyPets Shân Millie, Founder of Bright Blue Hare, & co-founder of Delegated Authority specialists, GreenKite Associates We cover the following stories: Aviva’s Blanc calls out industry sexism 3:09 LEVL and Humn partner to offer tailored EV Insurance 20:23 UK and EU hi...
Jun 15, 2022•52 min
John Bean and Benjamin Ensor are joined by a panel of fantastic guests, to talk about all things personalisation. Most people are of the opinion that personalisation is great - in the end, we are all unique. However, how far is it too far for personalisation? How open are customers to their data being shared, and how do we overcome that? Are we close to passing the threshold of too far? And of course, what should we expect in the next few years in the industry? Join us while we try to get to the...
Jun 01, 2022•48 min
Nigel Walsh and John Bean are joined by a fantastic panel of guest to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of insurtech. Joining us today: Ruth Foxe Blader, Partner at Anthemis Jeff Radke, Co-founder and CEO of Accelerant Brian Fritton, CEO, Havoc Shield We cover the following stories: UK launches post-Brexit shake-up of insurance rules - 2:48 Insurtech investment drops 58% in Q1, deal flow stays high - 12:36 Insurtech start-up Turtlemint bags $120m as valuation tops $900m - 27...
May 18, 2022•52 min
John Bean and Nigel Walsh are joined by some amazing guests to talk about all things ESG in insurance. ESG - Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance - is far from a new concept, but it has taken off in popularity over the past few years. And rightly so: ESG has the potential to reduce costs, boost stock performance, and increase customer and employee loyalty — among other things. Join us while we take a look at what the current landscape looks like, the challenges and opportunities in the...
May 04, 2022•53 min
Benjamin Ensor joined by a fantastic panel of guest to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of insurtech. Joining us today: Louise Birritteri, CEO and Founder of Pikl James Harrison, UKI Head of Insurance at Dun & Bradstreet Karn Saroya, CEO and Co-founder of Cover We cover the following stories: Cowbell raises $100m to build out its AI-based cyber insurance platform for SMBs 1:54 Lloyd's of London fines insurer Atrium over initiation games 13:23 Water leak insurtech Ondo c...
Apr 20, 2022•46 min
Coming in from Rise Up Insurtech London: Nigel Walsh and John Bean are joined by some amazing guests to talk about all things insurance in web3 - a topic that’s been on almost everyone’s lips lately. Web3 and the Metaverse seem to be here to stay, and with this new era - we want to take a look at what insurance might become. Joining us today: Sophie Winwood, Early Stage VC Investor at Anthemis Simon Taylor, CPO at 11:FS All that and much more on this week's episode of Insurtech Insider! Subscrib...
Apr 06, 2022•45 min
Nigel Walsh and John Bean are joined by a fantastic guest to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of insurtech. Joining us today: Victoria Roberts, Director of Fintech Delivery Panel & Insurtech Board We cover the following stories: Ukraine Invasion likely to have 'substantial impact' on insurance industry 2:17 Live near an ocean? Kin Insurance’s data aims to more accurately predict home risk 22:43 African healthtech start-up, Susu, raises €2m in pre-seed funding 33:10 Comp...
Mar 23, 2022•48 min
Nigel Walsh and John Bean are joined by an amazing guest to take a deep dive into data. Data is incredibly important in insurance, and we want to take a look at how it’s evolving. We’ll cover the massive explosion in data in the past few years and the reasons behind it, the blockers it currently faces and how we can get over them, and we try to predict what we might see in the future! Joining us today: Jason Reichl, CRO at TrustLayer All that and much more on this week's episode of Insurtech Ins...
Mar 09, 2022•46 min
Nigel Walsh and John Bean are joined by joined by a great panel of guests to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of insurtech. Joining us today are: Benji Markoff, CEO at Founder Shield Vicky Wills, CTO at Zego We cover the following stories: Binance user protection insurance fund reaches $1bn valuation 2:38 UK insurtech Zego Expands in Europe, Targeting £20bn Fleet Insurance Market 14:38 Revolut enters insurtech - as it launches pet insurance 26:06 National Insurance: Opposit...
Feb 23, 2022•54 min
Nigel Walsh and John Bean are joined by an amazing panel of guests to take a deep dive into new insurance products in this space, with a focus on how the landscape has changed since the start of a new decade. We’ll cover the scene so far, the good, the bad, and the ugly, their successes and what the future holds! Joining us today are: Andrew Bate, CEO and Co-Founder of Safely Jules Veyrat, CEO and Co-Founder of Stoïk Rachel Jenkins, EVP at Founder Shield All that and much more on this week's epi...
Feb 09, 2022•57 min
Nigel Walsh and John Bean joined by a great panel of guests to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of Insurtech. Joining us today are: Sophie Winwood, Early Stage VC Investor at Anthemis Dr Robin Keira, CEO of Digitalscouting.de We cover the following stories: UK insurers to be banned from offering cheaper deals to new customers 2:07 Markerstudy snaps up Comparethemarket owner's insurance arm in £400m deal 12:45 Insurers seek to block injury claims from illegal e-scooter rider...
Jan 26, 2022•55 min
Sarah Kocianski makes a welcome return alongside John Bean in the hosting seat for today's predictions episode! Together, they take a deep dive into some of the predictions that have already come out for 2022, as well as making some of their very own. Join us to find out what they had to say! As always, they are also joined by a fantastic guest: Rick Fox, VP and Head of Agency Sales at Vertafore All that and much more on this week's episode of Insurtech Insider! This episode is sponsored by Trus...
Jan 12, 2022•48 min
Nigel Walsh is joined by a great panel of guests to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of Insurtech. Joining us today are: Ruth Foxe Blader, Partner at Anthemis Reny Vargis-Cheriyan, Insurance lead for Risk Analytics TrueVoice Product lead, Deloitte We cover the following stories: Chubb and Chile Insurtech Betterfly Form Partnership for LatAm Offering 3:35 Climate Insurtech Demex raises $9m 14:47 Lyanne, the French startup making insurance companies pay up, raises €1.2m seed ...
Dec 22, 2021•59 min
Nigel Walsh is joined by a fantastic panel of guests to take a deep dive into the gender disparities in the world of insurance. We’re going to be talking to our wonderful panel about what their experiences have been like, what the challenges and opportunities are in this landscape, why inclusivity and diversity is incredibly important, of course, and how we can build a better future! Joining us today are: Shân Millie, Founder of Bright Blue Hare, GreenKite & EDII Megan Bingham-Walker, Co-fou...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Nigel Walsh is joined by new co-host, John Bean, Client Director and Insurance Lead here at 11:FS, as well as a great panel of guests to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of Insurtech. Joining us today are: Ben Jennings, Chief Revenue Officer of Embroker Nikki Daniels, Founder and Chair at e-Zee Insurance Solutions Phil Terrill, CEO and founder of SoleSafe We cover the following stories: Lemonade taps new revenue stream with car insurance launch, and plans to acquire Metromi...
Nov 24, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Benjamin Ensor and David Brear are joined by a great panel of guests to take a deep dive into new business models in Insurtech. What does the current landscape look like, can we pinpoint where innovation is currently coming from, what is the role of open finance in insurance, and what does the future hold? Joining us today are: Stuart Winchester, CEO at Marblepay Victoria Roberts, Director of Fintech Delivery Panel & Insurtech Board at TechNation All that and much more on this week's episode...
Nov 10, 2021•49 min
Nigel Walsh and Benjamin Ensor are joined by a great panel of guests to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of Insurtech. Joining us today are: Susan Holliday, Senior Adviser, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Mark Musson, Founder of HUMN We cover the following stories: London-based insurtech Humn secures £10.1M funding to enable real-time fleet insurance 3:03 Egyptian insurtech startup Amenli closes a $2.3M seed round 18:07 German insurtech startup Getsafe adds $63 mill...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Nigel Walsh and Gwera Kiwana are joined by a great panel of guests to take a deep dive into African Insurtech. Cross African Insurtech is booming, and deserves to have some time in the limelight. In this episode, we want to take a look at what the African insurtech landscape looks like right now, who it’s helping, what reaching a potential customer is like, how it can lock in long term growth prospects, and what the future holds! Joining us today are: Roy Perlot, CFO/COO, Lami Francis Ngari, Hea...
Oct 13, 2021•55 min
Nigel Walsh and Benjamin Ensor are joined by a great panel of guests to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of Insurtech. Joining us today are: Dr Robin Keira, CEO of Digitalscouting.de Shân Millie, Bright Blue Hare, GreenKite & EDII We cover the following stories: Ascend raises $5.5M to provide a BNPL option for commercial insurance 1:50 Black-owned start-ups in the UK are hitting billion-dollar valuations for the first time 14:20 UK claims bill for Covid-19 BI tops £1bn,...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 1 min
David Brear, Benjamin Ensor, Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh reunite to cover the past five years in insurance and reminisce about their favourite moments. Starting all the way back in 2017, the quartet look at the first wave of established insurtechs and partnerships, massive cost savers in claims, operations and customer acquisition, and arrive in 2021 where Blockchain and e-scooters are all the rage. How have things changed? All that and much more on this week's episode of Insurtech Insider! ...
Sep 15, 2021•52 min
Nigel Walsh and Benjamin Ensor are joined by a great panel of guests to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of Insurtech. Joining us today are: Jillian Williams, Principal at Cowboy Ventures Alex Wheal, Commercial Client Manager, Hiscox We cover the following stories: Extreme weather blows out catastrophe insurance losses to $40bn 3:19 Aon chief defends logic of failed $30bn Willis tie-up 15:44 Connected car insurance startup Flock raises $17M Series A led by Chamath Palihapit...
Sep 01, 2021•57 min
