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Richard Garry: Chief Commercial Officer, Gamma Location Intelligence: Build vs buy - getting the best location intelligence information (140)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.850 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Gamma Location Intelligence helps insurers to understand property-based risks by providing accurate location data to support underwriting decisions.The company combines its own data sets with information from partners and third parties to provide a clearer view to clients on risks including flooding, subsidence, fire and crime.Chief Commercial Officer Richard Garry joins Matthew to discuss Gamma’s approach, its technology solutions and how clients are making use of its data.Talking points include: Pinpointing risks through geocoding Automating declines and referrals Using maps vs risk and accumulation scoring Working with data partners Identifying new data sources Gamma Location Intelligence was named as one of the companies to watch in our Location Intelligence 2021 report, which is available to download from our website. If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use, or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn. Sign up to the InsTech London newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. 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 140 page of the InsTech London website, or email [email protected].

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0:00.0

The number of new companies being founded in the last 10 years to provide data and analytics is very impressive.

0:18.8

But innovation didn't suddenly begin in 2010, of course.

0:23.3

Many more well-established companies are also continuing to find new ways to assess and manage

0:29.3

risk, and they wouldn't have survived this long if they didn't have a strong client base.

0:34.1

Now, Gamma, our guest for this podcast, is one of these. And as we'll hear from

0:37.5

Richard Gary in a moment, the company has developed a very clear view of what problems it's

0:43.0

solving for these clients to help them make underwriting decisions. We covered Gamma and other

0:48.5

similar companies that are creating sources of data from third parties and, where necessary,

0:53.1

enhancing or building their own data in our

0:55.7

recent location intelligence report you can download that from the website and you'll find details in

1:00.7

the episode notes now it can be hard sometimes for new companies and insuretecs that are focused on

1:06.4

only one source of data to get the scale and momentum needed to sell that data and get in front

1:11.9

of insurance organisations. So companies like Gamma are one of a few that are offering another

1:16.3

way to get in front of insurance by bringing together data from third parties as well as their

1:21.9

own. Matthew Grant here, welcome again, or if you found us, welcome for the first time.

1:26.9

Thanks to all of you that

1:27.8

have been in contact. Let us know what you think of the podcast. Please do keep those messages

1:31.9

coming in. You can contact me on LinkedIn or via hello at instec. London. Now, let's hear from

1:38.9

Richard Gary. Richard, really pleased to have you on the call been fascinating, getting to know Gamma

1:52.5

better since you joined us as a corporate member and you are what we call these Dave

1:58.1

mature tech, been around a long time since before in

2:01.2

Short Tech, but are doing some really interesting things with data analytics.

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