Nigel Walsh and David Brear are back this week to talk through the most interesting news of the week just gone. As always, they are joined by some awesome guests: David George - CEO of Bikmo Sahas Katta - CEO of Smartcar Nikki Daniels - Board Advisor for Honcho Markets and Founder & Director of e-Zee Insurance Solutions Together they cove the following news stories from the last week: Lemonade goes public (05:00) Post Office brings back travel insurance - with coronavirus cover (15:36) Lloyd...
Jul 01, 2020•52 min
Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are joined by two great guests to figure out how the ongoing pandemic is having an impact on life insurance. Does life insurance automatically cover COVID-19? Should we get extra coverage? Can I get life insurance now if I didn't have it before? Joining us are these two industry experts: Jonathan Roomer - Co-Founder of Yulife Colleen Wells - Vice President of Product Strategy at Sapiens Small business financial services are only 1% finished. Our latest research ex...
Jun 17, 2020•46 min
Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are back this week to talk through the most interesting news of the week just gone. As always, they are joined by some awesome guests: Jillian Williams - Investment Principal at Anthemis Group Alex Dalyac - Founder and CEO at Tractable Amrit Santhirasenan - Co-founder and CEO of Hyperexponential Together they cove the following news stories from the last week: Big month for funding in insurance (06:02) Sound bite James Blackham, CEO and Co-Founder of By Miles (06:...
Jun 03, 2020•50 min
Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are joined by a panel of great guests to take a look at how loyal customers are in the insurance industry and what factors play in when trying to build a loyal client base. Oliver Baxter - Head of Brand & Product at By Miles Krystian Zajac - CEO and Founder of Hiro and Hero Labs Dr Robin Kiera - Founder of DigitalScouting Insurance should not just be a one off conversation when buying a policy, but how do you encourage your customers to stay with your company ...
May 20, 2020•58 min
Sarah and Nigel are joined by a panel of great guests to talk through the latest and greatest news in the insurtech and insurance industry! Our guests this week are: Sophie Winwood - Investor at Anthemis Niels Thoné - CEO of Sprout.ai Lucas Carlsén - CEO and Co-founder of Hedvig We cover the following news stories: The pandemic is expected to be more expensive than 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina (04:12) Car insurers give back to their customers and NHS workers get a free car (14:31) Staff layoffs in...
May 06, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are joined by a very international panel of guests this week to talk through Covid-19 and how the insurance industry are going to tackle this very difficult situation. Joining them are: Christian Wiens - CEO and Co-Founder at Getsafe Jay Bregman - Founder and CEO of Thimble Lance Poole - CEO of Juniper Labs Kicking off our roundtable discussion, we start by first establishing how badly the insurance industry is struggling right now and what areas have been hit the...
Apr 22, 2020•43 min
On this week's episode of Insurtech Insider, Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are hosting this week and joined by a panel of guests to explore the current market of home and renters' insurance. Joining Sarah and Nigel this week are: Jimmy Williams - Co-Founder of Urban Jungle Tahir Farooqui - Founder and CEO of Canopy Kicking off our roundtable discussion, we start by first establishing what renters insurance was and how it has evolved to what it is now. Between contents insurance and liability i...
Apr 08, 2020•43 min
On this week's episode of Insurtech Insider, Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are in the virtual hosting seat and joined by two special guests to explore how blockchain is changing the world of insurance. Joining Sarah and Nigel this week are: Simon Taylor - 11:FS Head of Ventures Aman Kohli - CTO of Banking & Capital Markets UKI at DXC Kicking things off, we start by establishing what blockchain is. Between Bitcoin, blockchain, crypto and DLT, there are a lot of different terms thrown around...
Mar 25, 2020•48 min
David Brear is on hosting duties in the Big Apple and joined by new and returning guests to to discuss the latest news in the world of insurance and insurtech. This week's guests include: Brett Lotito - VP of Insurance operations of Oscar Daniel Schreiber - Co-founder and CEO of Lemonade Jillian Williams - Investment principal at Anthemis We cover the following stories from the insurtech and insurance space: Lemonade pet insurance products are in the making (03:50) Ford slides into the insurance...
Mar 11, 2020•56 min
This week, David Brear is in New York to talk about all things insurtech. Joining David in our very first New York edition of Insurtech Insider are: Jay Weintraub - Co-founder and CEO at InsureTech Connect Quentin Coolen - Co-founder and CEO at Waffle Labs, Inc Whilst London is considered the global fintech hub and Silicon Valley the US centre of technology, it is New York that is leading the charge in insurance technology. To kick off the show, we start by asking the basics. What is the New Yor...
Feb 26, 2020•48 min
On this week's episode of Insurtech Insider, Nigel Walsh is in the hosting seat and joined by a panel of guests to explore how insurance is changing in our modern world. Joining Nigel this week are: Freddy Macnamara - CEO and Founder of https://www.cuvva.com/ James Blackham - CEO and Co-Founder of By Miles Out with the old, in with the new. Kicking off our roundtable discussion, we start by first establishing what's so wrong with the old method of getting insurance. Where is the need for new way...
Feb 12, 2020•44 min
On this week's episode of Insurtech Insider, hosts Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are joined by new and returning guests to discuss the latest news in the world of insurance and insurtech. This week's guests include: Antton Pena - Founder of Flock Jeremy Wood - CEO and Founder of Legerity Financials Sophie Winwood - Investor at Anthemis We cover the following stories from the insurtech and insurance space: SMEs increase insurance for Brexit (04:30) Death fraudster sentenced to almost 6 years in...
Jan 29, 2020•53 min
Sarah Kocianski is hosting this week's episode of Insurtech Insider and is joined by a panel of guests to explore the changing world of direct-to-consumer insurance. Diving into this topic, this week's guests are: Phil Zeidler - Co-Founder at DeadHappy Stephen Brittain - Director and Co-Founder at Insurtech Gateway Oke Eleazu - COO at Bought by Many Kicking things off, the panel first take a look at what direct-to-consumer insurance is, how it differs from other models and the current challenges...
Jan 15, 2020•53 min
In this Insurtech Insider 2020 predictions show, Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are on hosting duties and joined by some returning guests to discuss their industry predictions for the new year. Joining the hosts are: Lea Nonninger - Research Analyst at Business Insider Dylan Bourguignon - CEO at So-Sure David Vanek - Co-founder & CEO at Anorak Sarah kicks things off with predictions about large financial institutions working with insurtechs (02:10) and is followed by predictions from Lea (1...
Dec 25, 2019•47 min
On this week's episode, Sarah Kocianski hosts alongside Nigel Walsh and the pair are joined by a panel of guests to explore the recent wealth management and insurtech crossover. Diving into this topic, this week's guests are: Geoff Keast - Co-CEO at Montoux Scott Walchek - CEO & founder at Trov Melanie Palmer - CMO at Nucoro Kicking off the show, the panel and hosts first take a look at wealth management. What is wealth management and how has this industry changed? In recent years we've seen...
Dec 11, 2019•43 min
On this week's episode of Insurtech Insider, host Sarah Kocianski is joined by some wonderful guests to take a deep dive into the world of technology and insurance! Our guests include: Stephanie Taylor - Insurance AI lead at Microsoft William Maunder-Taylor - AI impact strategist EMEA at Sparkbeyond James Breeze - Digital Artificial Intelligence Lead at AXA XL Luke Bewley - Product and partnerships at Certua On this episode, we're focusing on all things AI and automation. According to McKinsey &...
Nov 27, 2019•44 min
On this week's episode of Insurtech Insider Sarah Kocianski is joined by some wonderful guests to discuss the latest news in the world of insurtech! Our guests include: James York - Founder of Worry+Peace Shaun Meadows - 11:FS Chairman Sabine Vanderlinden - CEO of Startupbootcamp and Partner at Rainmaking Insurance We cover the following stories from the insutech space: Insurance broker offers employees unlimited holidays and contracts based on trust (01:29) Lloyd's reveals $110 billion cost of ...
Nov 13, 2019•41 min
Sarah Kocianski is joined by two awesome guests to talk about all things attracting and retaining talent in the insurance industry. Our panel of guests are: Sophie Winwood - Associate at Anthemis Sebastian De Zulueta - Founder and Director at Market Minds Kicking off the show, the panel ask themselves why young people don't want to work in insurance? Is it a branding issue? The panel go on to discuss how the insurance industry might have fallen behind when it comes to culture and ways of attract...
Oct 30, 2019•44 min
Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are joined by some great guests to talk about all things SME insurance! Joining us today are: Andrew Rear - Chief Executive Officer at Digital Partners, Munich Re William Wood - Head of UK SME Propositions and Board Trustee at Crossroads Care at Aviva We cover the following topics in the SME insurance sphere: Why is this such an underserved market? What types of insurance do SMEs need? Where is the need for change in this industry? How do you offer something to ev...
Oct 16, 2019•43 min
Sarah Kocianski is joined by some of the most frequently returning guests from our last 50 episodes! Together they go through some of the top news, topics and trends in the insurtech sphere. Our guests include: Tobi Taupitz, CEO and co-founder of Laka Oliver Ralph, Insurance Correspondent, FT Jimmy Williams, CEO and Co-founder, Urban Jungle We cover the following topics and trends: Insurtech funding surpassed $3bn in 2018 and is up 280% in Q2 compared with 2018 (03:55) Lemonade’s Brexit proof st...
Oct 02, 2019•40 min
Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are joined by Paul Prendegast, CEO of Blink and Alex Rainey, CEO and co-founder of Pluto to discuss all things travel insurance! How is insurtech shaking up the travel insurance industry? Are traditional insurers being left behind? Why are millenials so bad at getting travel insurance? Are young people more intruiged by newer products? What are value-added services and how do they work? All that and much more on this week's episode of Insurtech Insider. Subscribe ...
Sep 18, 2019•42 min
On this episode of Insurtech Insider, host Sarah Kocianski is revisiting insurance in the rental market, taking a look at how insurtech is changing the way consumers are protected. She is joined by some top insurtechs trying to shake things up in this industry: Jude Greer, CEO and Co-founder, Reposit Nick Willis, Head of Growth at Wrisk The panel discuss: The origin stories of both companies; how is insurtech shaking up the traditional models at all ends of the home rental market, from deposit p...
Sep 04, 2019•44 min
On this episode of Insurtech Insider Nigel Walsh is joined by a briliant host of guests to talk about the latest and greatest news in the insurtech sphere! Our guests include: Phoebe Hugh - CEO and founder of Brolly, Nikolaus Suehr - CEO and founder of Kasko Ed Leon Klinger - Cofounder and CEO of Flock We cover the following stories from the insutech space: Lloyds turns to Trov for InsurTech offering (02:24) Brolly launches flexible contents product (09:01) InsurTech Previsico launches solution ...
Aug 21, 2019•39 min
On this episode of Insurtech Insider, our expert hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are joined by Shaun Meadows, the newly appointed 11:FS Chairman! Together they are taking a detailed look at a new report titled, "Quarterly InsurTech Briefing Q2 2019," topics discussed include: What "Quote, Bind, Issue" means in a lay persons terms How the sector performed in Q2 Which countries is the sector is performing best in The types of insurance recieving the most investment The size and stage of the...
Aug 07, 2019•45 min
Sarah and Nigel are joined by two great guests to talk about fintechs and insurtechs teaming up! The guests joining us today are: Dylan Bourguignon, CEO and founder of So-Sure David Vanek, CEO and founder of Anorak First, up the guests explain how they go about establishing partnerships with fintechs. Dylan's So-Sure was able to join Starling's marketplace after having dinner with the company's CEO, Anne Boden. David on the other hand, didn't have dinner with anyone, but by building an interesti...
Jul 24, 2019•49 min
On this episode of Insurtech Insider Sarah Kocianski brings you a series of interviews conducted at an event held by 11:FS in partnership with the FCA and the HM Treasury at Level39 in London. We were able to record some really interesting interviews with some of the most interesting people there, including: John Glen, MP and Economic Secretary to the HM Treasury Francesca Hopwood Road, Head of RegTech & Advanced Analytics at Financial Conduct Authority Sophie Winwood, an associate at Anthem...
Jul 10, 2019•32 min
Sarah and Nigel are joined by a host of fantastic guests to take a look at the biggest news stories in insurance and insurtech over the last few weeks. Our brilliant guests include: Lea Nonninger - Research Analyst at Business Insider Intelligence Oliver Ralph - Insurance Correspondent, FT Andy Rear - Chief Exec, Digital Partners at Munich Re Kicking off the show, we take a look at how US insurtech Lemonade has arrived in Europe! Lemonade was launched on the 11th of June in Germany, and they are...
Jun 26, 2019•51 min
In today's episode, we bring you three incredible interviews with some of the most interesting players on the American Insurtech start-up scene! First up, Sam Maule sits down with Quentin Coolen from Waffle! Waffle is an insurtech company that offers one insurance policy that covers, well, basically everything. At least what you need, including your friends and your family. What about the name; Waffle... insurance? Quentin explains how the name came about, and, spoiler alert, it has nothing to d...
Jun 12, 2019•38 min
Sarah and Nigel are joined by Antton Pena, founder of Flock and Sophie Winwood who is the Associate Investor at Anthemis! Kicking off the show, Antton tells us about Flock and what they do. Flock offers flexible drone insurance and they have three models, one of which is "pay as you fly"! Flock is powered by risk intelligence technology and it uses a model that allows you to pay for what you need and the risk you are undertaking. Anthemis as a company is very interested in how drones can aid the...
May 29, 2019•41 min
Sarah and Nigel are joined by some fantastic guests today who are all here to talk to us about Insurtech UK, the self-proclaimed alliance of insurtech startups and partners in the UK aiming to disrupt the insurance industry. This episode is also our big 4-0, our 40th episode in this series and here to celebrate with us are: Louise Birritteri, CEO and founder of Pikl Bruce McIntyre, Partner at IMAS Corporate Finance Shelley Lyddon-Mills, Head of M&A and Ventures at Hiscox James York, CEO at W...
May 15, 2019•57 min
