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InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

Partners' Chat - Easter Special: Robin Merttens and Matthew Grant (131)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.850 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Robin and Matthew catch up for their quarterly Partners’ Chat on Episode 131 to discuss the latest news and themes emerging in insurance. Talking points include: Whether Covid-19 has actually accelerated innovation Why Robin is expecting a rise in insurtech M&A activity The emergence of real AI insurance products and solutions How Zego managed to become the UK’s first insurtech unicorn Vaccines, face-to-face dinners and a return to The Steel Yard Sign up to our newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use, or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn. Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech London is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to any InsTech London podcast or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards the CII member CPD scheme. To claim 0.5 hours for this podcast, go to the Episode 131 page of the InsTech London website, or email [email protected].

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0:00.0

Do I say traffic warden lurking somewhere near your car?

0:14.7

Well, as you've probably figured out this week, it's just Robin and I having our quarterly chat,

0:20.6

checking in what we've been up to, what themes we're seeing developing,

0:23.3

and which companies we like the look of.

0:26.0

As usual, the occasional grumble, but where possible,

0:29.3

balanced with some enthusiasm, at least from one of us.

0:32.9

Matthew Grant here, and if this is your first time listening,

0:36.2

thank you very much for joining us.

0:37.8

And we hope you'll come back for more. Normal service returns next week. And for all you

0:42.4

regulars, great to have you along. Couldn't do this without you. Please do keep telling us what

0:46.6

you think and recommending us to others. I noticed that over 200 of you were up and listening

0:51.1

before 9 o'clock last Sunday. That's fantastic. And finally,

0:55.2

welcome to all of you listening in from Singapore. You are our fifth most popular region in

0:59.5

March so far. Anyway, that's enough for the intro. Let's get this show on the road.

1:17.0

Robin, really good of you to give up Friday to talk to me. I guess we've had such a busy month between us. We've spoken about 200 companies. It's actually the first time we've managed to

1:22.1

catch up for a while. So nothing else. I'm looking forward to hearing what you've been up to and,

1:26.9

you know, sharing a bit of that with anybody that happens to be listening. The only time I get to talk to you now. I'm looking forward to hearing what you've been up to and, you know, sharing a bit of that

1:28.2

with anybody that happens to be listening. The only time I get to talk to you now is on our podcast.

1:33.0

You know, you're so busy talking to everybody else. You haven't got time for me anymore. Sorry,

1:36.6

I can't get any further until you tell us all, what are you doing this from your car?

1:41.7

Well, I finally either figured out the work from home approach or finally

1:45.5

broken it, but we've got some builders in the house and actually the only place to go and record

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