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Scouting for Growth

Kristian Feldborg: Building Versuvio Labs

Scouting for Growth

Sabine VanderLinden

Business:entrepreneurship, Business, Entrepreneurship, Technology

4.835 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Insurance doesn’t suffer from a lack of ideas. It suffers from a lack of execution infrastructure. In this episode of Scouting for Growth, Sabine VanderLinden sits down with Kristian Feldborg, Founder of Vesuvio Labs, to unpack the mechanics of venture building in FinTech and InsurTech. Kristian has always been drawn to startups and new ideas. After years working globally with entrepreneurs, he recognized a pattern: brilliant founders often lacked the technical muscle and structural framework to bring their ideas to life. So he built a lab. Vesuvio Labs operates as a venture builder — not simply a consultancy or investor. Instead of writing early cheques, they invest sweat equity. They partner with founders at the earliest stage, helping design, build, and launch the first version of a platform before meaningful capital or revenue exists. This approach carries risk. But it also creates alignment. The secret lies in infrastructure reuse. Vesuvio often works across 15 ventures simultaneously. Rather than building bespoke tech stacks from scratch each time, they create shared baseline architecture — a reusable “pizza base.” Founders then add their differentiation — the toppings — on top. This dramatically reduces: Time-to-market Technology risk Early-stage capital burn Duplication of effort Insurance is particularly suited to this model. The value chain is complex, but repeatable. Underwriting, distribution, claims, compliance — these components can be modularized and standardized, then customized for different business models. Yet technology alone is not enough. Kristian highlights a common founder failure: strong individuals without clear frameworks for collaboration, governance, and execution. Structure and process aren’t bureaucracy — they are safety nets when plans go wrong. Venture builders must also be selective. Choosing startups that look too similar creates concentration risk. The most resilient portfolio covers different segments of the insurance value chain, enabling cross-learning and shared leverage. This episode is essential listening for: Founders seeking technical co-build partners Corporates exploring venture-building strategies Investors evaluating infrastructure-driven models Innovation leaders designing scalable execution frameworks Because the future of insurance innovation will not be built one-off. It will be modular. Reusable. Composable. And powered by shared infrastructure that lets founders focus on what truly differentiates them. The question isn’t whether insurance will innovate. It’s who will build the stack that makes it scalable.

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0:00.0

The Today I'm joined by Christian Ferpo, founder of the Vese Review Labs, a venture builder dedicated to FinTech startups and the Inthutek space as well.

0:29.0

Vasevio Labs call themselves the digital rocket fueling the entrance sector.

0:37.0

Vasevio Labs is led by Christian and the lab has been running for a few years and Christian will tell you more about how long he has been shaping the lab and for it to become one of the most renowned lab here in the United Kingdom and the Emirates I think soon. So one of the key goals that Christian wants to achieve is faster, cheaper and more accessible access to technology.

1:07.0

Today I want to review Christian's journey as a FinTech venture builder and how he made the shift from traditional tech to new tech.

1:20.0

Welcome, Christian.

1:22.0

Thank you so much for the introduction.

1:24.0

So I want to hear about who is Christian.

1:28.0

When did you decide to move in the venture building world.

1:33.0

Tell us about, you know, what excites you,

1:37.9

and what brought you from maybe old world to new world today?

1:44.6

Okay. old world today. Okay, so I think in terms of being a venture builder, I've always been interested in new things and startups and in tech. I think for most of my career, I've traveled, lived in different countries, and I worked for other entrepreneurs.

2:07.2

And that's why I enjoy doing, that's what I'm good at doing. I'm good at understanding what someone is trying to achieve and to help them do that. So I did that as a as a job. I did that as a as a as a consultant and as a as a person who were involved in in a number of different things and eventually decided that I wanted to turn that into a business, into a lab.

2:39.0

I wanted to create an ecosystem where we were able to work with many entrepreneurs and help them execute on the great ideas that they have.

2:57.0

So that was the, that was the idea, that's how it became Vesuvial Labs and a business. It was all about finding great people with great ideas that perhaps do not have the technology expertise to execute on those ideas and then see if we could partner with them and create great companies together.

3:26.3

So we started that about three, you know, company I've been running for a while before that,

3:32.1

but probably three years ago was when you could say we became what we are today.

3:38.4

That's wonderful and how many people do you have on your team today Christian?

3:45.6

I mean we are growing quite a bit. I would say we are something around 60, 60, 65 people today.

3:57.0

I think we're looking at adding about five people a month in the next probably year.

4:06.8

So it's growing, it's growing at a good pace.

4:16.0

Congratulations, very pleased for you. Thank you.

4:17.0

Tell us a little bit more about your business model.

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