Robert Le: Fintech Analyst, PitchBook: The facts and figures - tech companies to watch (184)

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4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

PitchBook is a financial data and software company that provides insights on private and public markets to help clients better evaluate opportunities. Robert Le, a Fintech Analyst at PitchBook, talks about how it gathers, defines and categorises different sources of information in its databases. He reviews what public market investors expect from insurtech and established technology companies and discusses the insurance areas where he is seeing opportunities emerge. Talking points include: How investors rate risk-taking entities (MGAs and insurers) compared to technology companies licensing products The potential opportunities to assess cyber insurance risk Recent developments in pet insurance, including marketing trends, social changes following Covid-19 and recent technological advancements in the area Use cases today for blockchain in insurance Some companies Robert has been following As a special offer to friends of the InsTech London podcast, PitchBook is offering a preview of their 2021 Annual Insurtech Report. 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 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. The Learning Objectives for this podcast are: Describe the ways in which insurtech companies can appeal to public market investors Identify some of the emerging opportunities within insurance such as cyber insurance risk Summarise how the pet insurance market has developed as a result of recent social and technological changes If your organisation is a member of InsTech London and you would like to receive a quarterly summary of the CPD hours you have earned, visit the Episode 184 page of the InsTech London website or email [email protected] to let us know you have listened to this podcast. To help us measure the impact of the learning, we would be grateful if you would take a minute to complete a quick feedback survey.

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0:00.0	Well, with the good weather we've been having here in the UK, the clock springing forward in the northern hemisphere and the streets of London buzzing again as people return to work.
0:22.5	It's perfect podcast listening conditions.
0:25.7	Hello, Matthew Grant here.
0:27.2	And if this is your first time joining us, well, we've got a great treat coming up for you in a minute.
0:33.5	For this week, we're taking a step back from our discussions with the founders, builders and buyers of technology and getting the perspective from an organisation that is doing research across many different industries.
0:44.5	They're looking at the vital statistics for start-ups, scale-ups and established technology companies.
0:49.6	And we are delighted to be partnering with Pitchbook to share some of their data with you in our reports,
0:55.2	and in return, we're keeping them updated on what we're seeing.
0:58.6	Now, in addition to the company-specific data, Pitchbook is also providing insights on industry themes.
1:04.3	And in a moment, I'm going to be talking to Robert Lay to learn a bit more about Pitchbook,
1:07.8	and he'll be sharing his view on what trends he's seeing and some of the companies he has been following. First of all, though, a date for your diary if you are
1:15.4	in London in late April, the 27th of April, to be precise, we are holding our insuretech all sorts
1:20.7	of an in-person at Code Node in London doors open at 5.30pm. Now this is back to our roots with
1:26.4	a chance to hear from some of the new
1:27.9	company we've discovered in the last few months. And as usual, we'll be splitting the time
1:32.4	between chatting on stage and lots of chance to catch up with your potential clients, partners,
1:37.4	investors, new staff, or just friends. Details, as usual, on the website, www.combe.
1:42.9	London. Members go free. Everyone else pay in advance. Now,
1:46.9	let's hear from Robert. Robert, a bit of a change for today on who we're normally talking to,
1:57.4	but I've been really intrigued by what PitchBook has been doing, really impressive content in there as well. It's very hard as we know ourselves to capture all this
2:05.0	information about companies out there. The company is founded in 2007. I know you're looking at
2:10.7	information for thousands of global businesses with data on private and public markets to help
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