The launch of a new Insurtech fund – Brewer Lane Ventures – was announced earlier this month. Martha Notaras will be Managing Partner along with founder John Kim.
Martha was formerly part of the team at XL Innovate – investing in successful startups such as Lemonade, Cape Analytics and Slice and she has many years of experience in identifying and investing in technology companies in and outside of insurance.
Read MoreBernard is currently on a posting to New York, having previously been the Insurance Insiders' technology correspondent in London.
We last featured Bernard in June 2019 shortly after he arrived in the US and Matthew caught up with him to see what the world of insurance, technology and insurtech looks like from the US.
Read MoreJacqueline McNamee, a former underwriter, became frustrated with the speed of innovation at her previous employer and launched C-Quence in 2017. Matthew interviewed Jacqueline for one of the keynote presentations at the Cytora conference in November last year and this episode has the highlights of their discussion.
Read MoreWe've interviewed well over 100 people in 2019 and you can hear most of them on the InsTech London podcasts. Our guests share fantastic insights - whether on stage speaking to us at our events, or during Matthew's longer in-depth interviews.
The leaders from insurance companies, the founders and CEO of technology companies (small and large) that they are working with and others that are truly influencing the shape of the industry.
Read MoreMatthew and Robin took some time out from a busy year end to review their personal highlights from the past 12 months, and take look at what's coming up in the next few months.
Read MoreWe've been hearing a lot recently about how Lloyd's of London is looking to harness innovation across many areas to expand the range of insurance it can cover, improve efficiency and find new ways to measure and reduce risk.
The Lloyd's Lab has become an important part of identifying companies that can help Lloyd's and the managing agents writing business there.
Read MoreRyan Kottenstette founded Cape Analytics in 2014 to help companies identify building characteristics based on aerial imagery.
Five years on and Cape has analysed 80% of the US population, in terms of physical property risk, with the resulting data being used to help price and manage insurance policies and reinsurance portfolios by over 30 companies. Today the company ranks as one of the best known technology companies in insurance to have emerged in the last few years.
Bob Reville founded Praedicat in 2011 and the company has gone on to create one of the most credible models for understanding emerging risks.
The idea was born out of a research and development project, with Praedicat now using data science and AI to build products for some of the world’s largest insurers and global investors.
Praedicat recently completed its time in Lloyd's Lab cohort 3 and Matthew finds out how they are helping insurers and others manage large scale liability risks, the impact of regulation and the threat to insurers from a new wave of litigation issues.
Matthew talks to Michele Williams, Head of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty's central innovation unit XSE, to find out what the group is doing, and the areas of analytics and data they are interested in. Michele explains Allianz's strategy for producing new ideas - which are focussed around their clients' needs - and how they work with start-ups, scale-ups and technology providers.
In our previous episode we brought you the first half of our event on the 22nd October on Platforms and Ecosystems.
This time we're back with the second part of the evening and Robin is on stage talking to four companies (three of whom are corporate members and one a start-up), all with very different approaches to providing access to data, analytics from third parties.
One of this year's top topics for insurance and technology is platforms - and we are going to hear a lot more about them in the next year.
Startups have been finding it hard to get the attention of insurers, and experience is showing that most insurers are not really set up to nurture early stage companies. Insurance technology platforms provide a way for insurers to more easily access data, analytics and the related services they need to improve efficiency and engagement - and for technology companies to get to insurers.
CEO Mark Bates founded RDT in 1991 but shows the energy, enthusiasm and tech-driven vision more commonly founded in early-stage start-ups. Matthew Grant caught up with Mark to find out how and why he founded the company, what makes him tick, and exactly why one of their clients is responsible for a staggering 50 million calls on the RDT server each day.
Read MoreFor this week's episode we're back in the Lloyd's Lab talking to Amrit Santhirasenan. Amrit is a qualified actuary and having become frustrated by the lack of available tools he could use to run his actuarial models, he founded hyperexponential.
Read MoreOne of our most animated and most popular events so far - this, the second half of our 'Reverse Pitch' event from The Steelyard that we held on 24 September.
Matthew Grant is the chair, talking to Hayley Maynard, Chief of Staff to the CUO of Allianz ACGS and Karl Stanley VP Technology Ventures, Renaissance Re. Two great guests from two of the world's biggest insurers.
Read MoreWe were delighted to be able to catch some time with Rob Galbraith whilst he was over in London recently. Rob is well known for his commentary on insurtech, insurance and all things related.
Join us to find out why Rob, author of the recent insurance bestseller "The end of insurance as we know it", has been called "the most interesting man in insurance" and "the WD40 of insurance".
The summer is over and we're back in the Steelyard for our autumn season of evening events. There are lots of opportunities to find out what technology companies offering services and products to insurance have to offer, but how often do we know what the insurers really want?
Read MoreThe curse of 'legacy' is often blamed for lack of innovation in established insurance companies, but is that really the problem?
Instanda was founded seven years ago and has proved it can successfully build new systems for insurers and work alongside, and with, legacy and still deploy its solutions quickly and relatively cheaply.
Read MoreLiberty Mutual is the world's fifth-largest property & casualty insurer. James Slaughter is responsible for setting the overall underwriting strategy, which includes pricing, risk appetite, distribution and innovation, for the global commercial & specialty lines of business of Liberty Mutual.
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A short episode for you this time as Matthew and Robin talk about what they have been up to in recent weeks, the latest trends catching their eye and what the autumn has in store for InsTech London and our community of 4,000 people, supported by 80 corporate members.
The finance teams in insurance companies often struggle as much as others when it comes to identifying key business metrics and bringing together multiple sources of data.
Improving efficiency is one of the foundations of the "Future of Lloyd's" strategy and the 3rd cohort in the Lloyd's Lab brings together scale-ups rather than start-ups. Founded in 2010, Phinysys was chosen because of its record in providing systems to speed up and improve reporting capabilities to leading insurers.
