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Gaia uses medical data to offer personalised financial plans to remove the financial barriers to accessing fertility care. It is the world’s first IVF (in vitro fertilisation) insurance product that predicts fertility outcomes and insures against the risk of failure. Robin Merttens is joined ...

Member spotlight: Loadsure What was your motivation for founding Loadsure? Over 60% of cargo in transit is reported to be underinsured (a figure which Loadsure estimates to be closer to 80-90%). The 300-year-old freight insurance industry has been slow to embrace new technologies and ways of ...

InsTech event write-up: From MGA to full-stack insurer: Everything you need to know It is a good time to be an MGA. There has been significant growth amongst both new and traditional agencies. Inevitably, many MGAs are looking at the potential next stage of their ...

World Innovation Lab (WiL) is a US & Japan-based venture capital firm with capital from governments and leading global corporations based in Japan and throughout Asia. The company’s vision is to be the bridge between startups and corporates in key hubs across the globe – ...

Member spotlight: Pen Underwriting Can you give us a brief introduction to Pen Underwriting? Founded in 2015, Pen is a multi-class, multi-territory MGA, which brought together twelve different MGA businesses, to create a single cohesive business. The first five years of Pen’s journey were effectively ...

Member Spotlight: bolttech Henry: Can you give a brief overview of what bolttech does? Andrew: bolttech plans to build a technology-enabled ecosystem for insurance. It connects insurers, distribution partners and customers to make buying and selling insurance easier. bolttech’s insurance exchange helps insurers tap ...

It is a good time to be an MGA. There has been significant growth amongst both new and traditional agencies. Inevitably, many MGAs are looking at the potential next stage of their evolution – becoming a full-stack insurer.  According to an Insurtech UK survey, 57% of ...

If we want to understand opportunities for innovation in insurance we need to understand what the customer wants – the people and companies buying insurance. Many companies are now setting up captives to use their own capital as an alternative or to complement the insurance they ...

‘Marketplaces and Exchanges: 10 Ways They Are Reshaping Insurance’, will provide an update on the state of the market, give a progress report on the companies featured last time and details of the new entrants and where they fit in.

Member Spotlight: Open Insurance Can you introduce Open Insurance to those who are not familiar with the company? Jason: Open Insurance was founded in 2016 and is a Sydney-based digital MGA. The company’s mission is “to provide the fastest insurance at the best price for ...

Elizabeth Jenkin is the CEO of Nimbla, Co-founder of the women’s network “Lift as you Climb” and is on the boards of Gallagher, Fidelis and the Women’s Football Association. She joins Robin to discuss why she left her 20-year career as a broker ...

Member Spotlight: Novidea Can you give a brief description of Novidea? Novidea is the creator of a cloud-based, data-driven broker management platform that enables brokers, agents, and MGAs to modernise and manage end-to-end customer insurance journeys worldwide. The platform is built on Salesforce, providing a ...