Isaac Hicks, CEO Slipbot, which extracts nuanced information from Facultative and Treaty Slips of all kinds in the Reinsurance space using a novel approach to natural language processing. Issac is an advanced Software Integrations Expert and AI practitioner that combines iPaaS solutions, Robotic Process Automation, and Artificial intelligence to create innovative, state-of-the-art business solutions that produce practical, concrete value for growing organizations. Slipbot is his team's custom AI...
Oct 31, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 43
Les Schlesinger is CEO at ClaimRide. Claim Ride is the leading facilitator of ride share/hailing service providers (Uber, Lyft, YellowCab) for policy holders receiving transportation (rental reimbursement) benefits under their automobile insurance coverage. The solution provides access to ride share services that enhance and or replace a typical rental car benefit received from an insurance company, Motor Club or Roadside Assistance Company. Claim Ride offers an end-to-end solution including a M...
Oct 24, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 42
Sudhama Gopalan is founder and CEO of AveriSana Inc., an insurtech startup that uses data science and machine learning to make customer acquisition in life and health insurance more cost-efficient and productive. Matching customers to products used to be about understanding intent and then looking at insurability (health and medical records) later on in the sales funnel. Technology now enables insurers to aligning intent with insurability simultaneously in order to reduce the total cost of acqui...
Oct 18, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 41
Eyhab Aejaz is CEO at Breach, developing cyber insurance solutions for the growing $2T+ cryptocurrency market. Breach has built a proprietary policy issuance and administration platform and an industry-first solution to insure clients of popular cryptocurrency custodians and exchanges. Eyhab says crypto is built on trust and transparency, yet decentralized markets the product is based on those same standards. Crypto is not illegal because it is taxed, so they see it as a type of asset, with a bu...
Oct 10, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 40
Upasana Unni is the Chief Commercial Officer of Sayata, a marketplace where wholesale brokers can find small business insurance from multiple carriers in just a few minutes. Upasana oversees market partnerships and carrier relationships and says insurance remains a relationships business, with people on the phone. Insurance remains a very relationship-driven place, needing well-respected voices making the calls to place business. She does not see a zero-touch digital-only experience being possib...
Oct 04, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 39
Dr. Holger Bartel is CEO and founder of RealRate. Working at insurers, Holger saw first-hand how the company ratings process is biased and filled with conflicts of interest. RealRate fills a niche of automating company ratings. Instead of analysts conducting personal interviews and spending half-year on a rating, RealRate automates and scales ratings using publicly available data. RealRate uses hybrid AI brain to make the results 'explainable-by-design, by providing a structure that restricts da...
Sep 26, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 38
Mark Breading, Partner at Strategy Meets Action is known for his insights on the future of the insurance industry and innovative uses of technology. Mark says expertise and relationships are at the heart of every business, whether origination or distribution, and digital-only models will not be taking over for a long time. His belief is everyone in the industry needs to develop more relationship skills and responsibilities, and that agencies in particular will maintain their strong role. While r...
Sep 19, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 37
Frank Giaoui is President of Optimalex, a legal predictive analytics insurtech. Wait...What are legal predictive analytics, exactly? Insurance companies today apply their own benchmarks to settling legal cases, and may share medical claims but typically do not have access to external benchmarks. Optimalex adds science to the historical art of claims adjustment. The head of legal claims analysis and/or chief risk officer typically engage with Optimalex, defining key success metrics, ie. reducing ...
Sep 13, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 36
Spyridon Antonopoulos is Director of Solutions Architecture at Solidus Labs, providing trade surveillance, transaction monitoring, and threat intelligence to corporates. In this episode, Spiro discusses how the insurance life cycle can begin to cover crypto assets, for example using photo and video evidence as part of the risk assessment and claims process. Spiro has experience in the Life, Annuities, and Long Term Care insurance verticals, spending the first decade of his career advising senior...
Sep 06, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 35
Joshua Behar is CEO of Mobile2CRM, which solves an organizational blind spot by capturing business communications (Voice, Text, WhatsApp) conducted via cellular devices without violating users' privacy. -The core problem Mobile2CRM solves is customer-facing employees' usage of mobile phones to do business, whether managing customer data in their own personal excel rather than the CRM, or the common high turnover and customer poaching amongst salespeople. -The core product records and documents b...
Aug 29, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 34
At the GIA, Dan Israel is responsible for the overall strategy and operations of the organization - emphasizing the growth, development, and success of the programs, as well as ongoing support of all of the accelerator’s portfolio companies. His goal is to bring together strategic and forward-thinking investors with innovative founders who can enhance both groups’ opportunities for growth and the insurance space overall. Key things to know about working with the GIA: -GIA lets the enterprise's s...
Aug 22, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 33
Jon R. Sabes is the founder, chief executive officer and chairman of FOXO Technologies Inc. a technology startup using the science of AI and epigenetics to reinvent the life insurance industry. Insights in this episode: - How longevity science is becoming core to the life insurance industry, better predicting mortality risk - How to create and use an epigenetic clock of how people are biologically aging from your zygote double-strand starting from mom and dad's genetics through an entire lifetim...
Aug 15, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 32
Jason Gross is Vice President & Head of Platform for ManchesterStory an early-stage InsurTech venture capital in Des Moines Iowa. Key insights in today's episode: ✅Leaders often assume employees are resistant to change, but as it turns out the most experienced employees are the most excited about change because they have felt the 'pain points' for the longest time. ✅ManchesterStory is 6-years old, is US-focused on seed-stage insurtechs and fintechs and will lead early rounds, having invested...
Aug 08, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 31
Tomas Vykruta is CEO at EvolutionIQ, a claims guidance AI platform for Group & Individual Disability, Workers Compensation and Casualty & Liability that has processed millions of bodily injury claims. Customers include Sunlife Financial, Reliance Standard, Argo, Matrix and Fullscope RMS. Claims officers are dealing with up to 70 injured employment cases a day. EvolutionIQ acts as an expert medical doctor, understanding provider data, procedure codes, and partnering with carrier teams. In...
Jul 26, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 30
Delanea Davis is the co-founder and CEO of Cloud9 Online, a Hartford-based medical-grade meditation tech company. Delanea is an accomplished Senior Executive and Thought Leader, with 25 years of success in P&C market research and the health & wellness industries. The practical application of Cloud9's white-label B2B solution is to get injured workers back to work on-time and healthy, which improves P&C loss ratios and adds a new datapoint to behavioural datasets that can drive better...
Jul 18, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Anthony Habayeb is founding CEO of Monitaur , an AI governance and ML assurance company. ✅ Monitaur guides enterprises to build and deploy responsible AI and machine learning models that business leaders, regulators and consumers can trust. ✅ Large enterprises don't have good oversight and controls to have enough confidence in AI systems, Monitaur delivers software for internal risk teams to build auditability and enable access to verify machine learning with tangible evidence. ✅ Monitaur is in ...
Jul 11, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Adrian Jones is a partner at HSCM Ventures, the venture capital investment arm of Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., an alternative asset manager in re/insurance and transport. Today's episode is an in-depth look at capital-raising, whether funding losses is a viable model, revising business plans, and what types of people become successful. ✅Carriers remain 'followers' rather than fast followers, because culturally the industry has been operated more conservatively than other industries...
Jul 05, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Rashid Galadanci is CEO of Driver Technologies, an AI-based mobility tech company that delivers a safer driving experience, co-founded in 2018. Rashid was inspired to start Driver Technologies to share the benefits of advanced vehicle technologies without barriers to access and improve safety for everyone. Rashid's dad survived a car accident in Africa because he was in a Volvo, but the passengers of the other car were not so lucky. This life-changing incident catalyzed Rashid to devote himself ...
Jun 28, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 26
Daniel Demetri is the founder and CEO of Trellis, an insurtech company leading a fundamental shift in how businesses and consumers engage with insurance. Trellis provides insurance optimization, depending on consumer needs for higher coverage, lower deductibles, better service quality, or lower cost. Daniel believes consumers deserve financial services and experiences that automatically work cohesively to support and simplify their lives. Daniel built Trellis to enable consumers to compare their...
Jun 21, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Roma Bronstein is Co-Founder and CTO at Spott, an eCommerce insurance solution that stops unexpected losses from taking down online stores. ✅Spott tackles the risks of lawsuits and sales disruptions with a new breed of dynamic insurance products. By offering merchants one-click coverage at the fairest price, Spott makes eCommerce businesses resilient. ✅e-Commerce more frequently leads to miscommunicatons between sellers and carriers, which can lead to misaligned pricing or coverages. ✅Spott acts...
Jun 14, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Bob Frady, CEO of HazardHub decided to start a company when a family member’s home unexpectedly flooded. HazardHub's goal was make those tools available to every single homeowner in the United States. "While we can’t prevent disasters from happening, we can give you a leg up in preparation." Today Bob provides direct, no-nonsense insights into what it takes to bootstrap your vision, not take early capital, having enough confidence in your vision to walk away from partners who are not ready, and ...
Jun 07, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Vinod Kachroo, CEO Innoveo is focused on guiding product strategy and partnerships, scaling delivery, raising brand awareness, and accelerating market momentum and growth. Backed by Everstone Capital and Paulson & Co, Innoveo’s cloud based, AI enabled no-code platform is currently in production globally at over 30 industry leaders across insurance, financial services, healthcare and real estate. Innoveo helps the c-suite and CTO/CIO launch new digital brands, create new experiences and new b...
May 31, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Kegan Greene is a Managing Director and Head of Insurance Technology investment banking at Jefferies, a multinational investment bank that provides M&A transaction support including capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research, and asset management. Kegan works with later-stage insurtechs, Series B, C or beyond who are leaving the initial VC-raise stage and can start yo consider other options such as private equity. This content is great compe...
May 24, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Andrew Lerner is Managing Partner of IA Capital Group, having launched IA Capital's venture capital business which is now the firm’s core activity. Andy is a Director of Credit Sesame, SmartAsset, Matic, and Marble. Andy notes the VC industry has matured from being the Wild West to become a founder-friendly industry. IA's sweet spot is Series A or five years before the potential sale of a company versus the seed stage where you have to wait ten years or more. The right time to reach out is when ...
May 17, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Brian Fritton is CEO at Havoc Shield, having built his previous startup into a crowdfunding machine that originated over a billion dollars in real estate loans which led to a successful exit. Brian has also been responsible for defending a small business from cyberattacks as CTO at Patch of Land and the VP of Engineering for a an enterprise data science software maker. He is a 2020 TechStars Alumni and Founding Member of Forbes Technology Council. Today Brian talks about the founder’s perspectiv...
May 10, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Qiyun is Co-Founder the co-founder of Amplify Life Insurance, a digital life insurance platform. Amplify is building a comprehensive life insurance platform to provide financial security for millions of individuals and families and bringing consumer choice, efficiency, and customer centric experiences to the industry. At its core, Amplify is a digital platform that creates customer-centric, permanent life insurance, offering quoting, recommendation and end-to-end policy management to the end con...
May 03, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Bill Conners is the CEO and Woody Klemmer is the Head of Growth at ForMotiv, a behavioral intelligence platform that helps insurance carriers predict user intent, in real-time, by analyzing digital body language as users engage with insurance applications and claims forms. ForMotiv uses Java snippets that embed in tags or source code to collect data at-scale, so know which behaviors are indicative of certain outcomes, which are the good and bad customers, and provide insurers these insights in r...
Apr 26, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Matt Chesky is the President of Insuritas a leading provider of embedded insurance solutions for financial institutions in the U.S. Matt says the process of ensuring you are getting the right coverage at the right price is painful. Insuritas believes part of the solution is to embed access to insurance products in environments where customers are already used to spending time. Insuritas is an 'original' insurtech, founded in the late 90s to help banks and credit unions run their own insurance ag...
Apr 19, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Meet Bobbie Shrivastav, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Benekiva where she leads the product development, customer care, and delivery of transformational technology solutions to help modernize the insurance industry. Bobbie’s unwavering commitment to innovation, her customer-centric approach and thoughtful development of industry-evolving solutions have earned her the reputation as an industry leader. She is instrumental in Benekiva’s evolution to become the only technology solution on t...
Apr 12, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Harry Croydon is the founder of STP Group and the President and CEO of MIC Global. MIC Global provides simple insurance that is accessible, affordable, and relevant, by creating highly relevant insurance products that attract and retain customers enhancing customers' brand and drive growth. Their overarching goal is to make the safety net of insurance available to all. The big idea behind MIC Global was to focus on straight-through-processing (STP), with high volume sales, and the ability to pro...
Apr 05, 2022•12 min•Season 3Ep. 14
