Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing,

blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Future Tech Podcast. I'm your host, Juliet Lamar. And we have

with us in the line, Alex Mofaio, the founder and CEO at Booth Insurance. Welcome, Alex. Hi, Julie. Thanks for having me.

So, Alex, tell us what are you giving insurance a boost. How Alice is working.

Sure. So I can give you a quick background of really how we got here because there was some personal

motivation to starting Boost. I spent the last 10 years or so in the venture capital

world, and I was focused on investing in early stage and growth stage technology companies in

the financial services industry. And one of my main areas of focus were companies that were

innovating in the insurance industry. And, you know, my investment experience kind of ranged from both, you know,

your traditional sleepy insurance investments.

And then more recently, this whole wave of innovation started happening in the insuretech world.

And you saw a whole batch of really talented technology-focused

entrepreneurs investing a lot of time, energy, and brainpower in the insurance industry for the first

time, basically ever. I think what they saw was, you know, a really huge, slow-moving, low-tech industry that was

ripe for, at minimum, improvement, but at most, actual disruption. And, you know, in our

experience at the VC firm, I was at, we had a lot of actual insurance experience. So we were pretty

well positioned, we thought, to take advantage of early stage opportunities. We understood both the

technology component, but also, and most importantly, the insurance aspect of things. So we started

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