Martha Notaras: Managing Partner, Brewer Lane Ventures: Investment, insight & influence (64)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

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 and Slice and she has many years of experience in identifying and investing in technology companies in and outside of insurance. Martha is also well known as a lively and informed presenter and panelist at insurance and technology conferences. Matthew talks to Martha from her office in California. The topics they cover include: New opportunities in insurtech including climate change and cyber. Why the past is not a good guide to the future. Data and the challenges for insurers. How the reaction of incumbent insurers to the relevance of insurtech has changed over the last few years. The best way to keep up to date with what is happening in insurance and technology The goals for Brewer Lane Ventures and the type of companies it will be investing in Look out for the summary of this discussion 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	Insurance companies have been good at collecting data.
0:04.6	They have been poor at storing data in a way that makes it highly usable, and they have
0:12.1	exacerbated that by storing it in silos. Hello, welcome to the INSTEC London podcast.
0:26.6	This is Matthew Grant, one of the partners at INSTEC London.
0:30.6	For this episode, I'm really pleased to be talking to an old friend and somebody who has an excellent perspective on what is happening in InsureTech.
0:39.3	The launch of a new InsureTech fund, Brewer Lane Partners, was announced earlier this month
0:44.1	and Martha Nataris would be managing partner along with founder John Kim.
0:49.4	Martha was formerly part of the team at Ex-Lenov Innovate who have been investing successfully in
0:54.5	startups such as Lemonade Cape Analytics and Slice Martha herself has many years of
1:00.0	experience in identifying and investing in technology companies both in and
1:04.1	outside of insurance as well as meeting hundreds of people each year Martha
1:09.2	also finds time to write the occasional article,
1:12.1	including her predictions for the year ahead, which we're going to be talking a bit about in this episode.
1:16.9	Look out for a link in the episode notes for her top picks for 2020.
1:21.3	So let's hear what Martha had to say when I spoke to her earlier this week.
1:30.1	Martha, happy new year.
1:31.9	It's great to get a chance to talk to.
1:33.6	I know you've got a huge amount going on, but wonderful to see the breaking news about
1:37.6	Brewer Lane Ventures.
1:40.0	I guess before we should jump into that, it might be useful just to get a very quick
1:42.8	history of yourself. A few people out there that don't know you. Then I'd be useful just to get a very quick history of yourself.
1:45.0	A few people out there that don't know you.
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