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February 28, 2020
Organising the world’s data
After honing his skills and gaining experience in other industries, David King settled on insurance and, with co-founder Johnny Bridges set up Artificial Labs in 2013.
Today Artificial is helping deliver major efficiencies for insurance companies in how they collect and analyse third-party data.
David ...
February 11, 2020
Underwriting analytics for commercial insurance
As data becomes more widely available, underwriters may have more information to select and price the business they are taking on, but they don’t have more time.
Matthew Grant spoke to Richard Hartley CEO and co-founder of Cytora about how the company has ...
January 31, 2020
Delivering Data Certainty
Data is at the heart of many decisions in insurance – pricing, risk mitigation, claims and capital management. But data needs to be high quality – and that requires constant diligence.
CEO and founder of DQPro Nick Mair is Matthew’s guest on Episode 66. ...
January 24, 2020
Discovering the data to drive decisions
Ask someone to name some of the more successful UK insurtech scale-ups and Digital Fineprint (DFP) often gets a mention.
In three years CEO and Founder Erik Abrahamsson has taken DFP from holding meetings in a garden shed to raising £7m in funding and ...
January 20, 2020
Investment, insight and influence
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 ...
January 14, 2020
Modelling Reimagined – Amrit Santhirasenan, hyperexponential
A qualified actuary, Amrit Santhirasenan co-founded hyperexponential, or hx for short, in 2017 after becoming frustrated by the lack of available tools to build and run his models when he was Head of Pricing and Analytics at his previous employer.
hx went on to become ...
January 6, 2020
Building a Management Liability MGA
The role and potential for MGAs was much discussed in 2019, with some significant fundraising and acquisitions.
Jacqueline 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 ...
January 6, 2020
Geospatial Imagery and Aerial Insights – Ryan Kottenstette, Cape Analytics
Founded in 2014, Cape Analytics use AI and geospatial imagery to provide intelligence to insurers. To date, they have analysed 80% of the US population, in terms of physical property risk.
The resulting data is being used by over 30 companies to help price and manage insurance policies ...
December 9, 2019
Geospatial imagery and aerial insights
Ryan 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 ...
December 2, 2019
How to build a liability model
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 ...
November 25, 2019
Michele Williams: Head of XSE, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty
How does an organisation like Allianz – one of the world’s largest insurance companies – stay ahead when it comes to innovation?
Matthew talks to Michele Williams, Head of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty’s central innovation unit XSE, to find out what the group is ...
October 8, 2019
Highlights from our Reverse Pitch: What the Industry Wants from Insurtech?
24th September 2019
Reverse Pitch: What the Industry Wants from Insurtech?
Over the years InsTech London has successfully brought hundreds of emerging tech, data and analytics companies to talk to the insurance community about the solutions they can offer insurers, MGA’s and brokers.
This time ...
