Erik Abrahamsson: CEO & Founder, Digital Fineprint: Discovering the data to drive decisions (65)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ask someone to name some of the more successful UK insurtech scale-ups and Digital Fineprint (DFP) often gets a mention. In 3 years CEO and Founder Erik Abrahamsson has taken DFP from holding meetings in a garden shed to raising £7m in funding and securing an impressive list of clients. He joined Matthew on Episode 65 of the InsTech London podcast for a conversation that covered: Using new data sources for selecting and pricing SME insurance Tips for a new company on pitching to prospective clients Why in a world that is turning digital, personal contact still matters in insurance How DFP is able to recruit senior people from established insurers Lessons learned from working in the Lloyd’s Lab If you liked what you have heard then please leave us a review or a comment on your chosen podcast platform. Look out for the shareable summary of this episode at https://www.instech.london/podcasts Membership details and other enquiries: [email protected] InsTech London Podcast Host: Matthew Grant Produced by Simon Fyles: [email protected] Edited by Peter Roach: visualmonkeys.co.uk

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome or welcome back to hear from another fantastic guest on the INSTEC
0:13.3	London podcast. Eric Abrahamson is CEO and founder of Digital Fineprint or DFP and one of the
0:20.2	most well-known figures in the London
0:21.9	in Suretech world from the last few years. In this episode, Eric not only explains what the company
0:27.9	does, but he's got some great tips if you're looking to build a company, hire staff,
0:32.4	pitch to insurers and a whole lot more. Now, the other great news is that you can listen to
0:37.2	this whether you are walking, running, great news is that you can listen to this, whether you are
0:38.4	walking, running, driving, or whatever else you get up to while still listening to our podcast,
0:42.9	but you don't need to worry about missing out on these great insights. We're now providing you
0:47.4	with an easy-to-read summary of our podcasts, and these are also, by the way, a great way to share
0:52.2	what you've heard with other people that may not yet have discovered the joy of podcasts.
0:56.6	I caught up with Eric in the DFP office in London.
1:08.8	All right.
1:09.6	Delight to have you for the Instant London podcast.
1:11.6	We've been in each other quite a few years about we actually met in Lloyd's when you were sitting there about to pitch your business.
1:18.6	And here we are three years further on.
1:20.6	You've got a wonderful business game.
1:22.6	Believe me. Thanks much for allowing me.
1:23.6	Now you started off, you were at the early stage of your career.
1:26.6	You were an analyst at Proctor and Gambleble you then went on to work at Twitter today digital
1:32.8	fine print has got a mission to protect small businesses by you say on your
1:36.8	website equipping empowering and enabling the insurance industry with the right
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