The Good afternoon Roman. It's such a pleasure to have you with us this afternoon on our interview series of scouting for growth,

and identifying how growth ventures has made it so far.

So today I would be talking to Dr. Roman Rittviger, CEO and founders of Otonova.

Otonova is a pure play digital health insurance provider for individual patients, self-employed,

civil servant employees, which I believe was founded in 19, in sorry, was founded in 2015 in Munich, Germany.

Today, Otanova has over, I think, over 100 employees I read, Roman.

That is correct, yeah.

And you have deployed what we call a marketplace or a market platform where users can actually optimize and buy coverages for health insurance.

So it's important to know that Ottenova is also called a

sonicorn in our days. It has raised over 140 million series E and as interesting investors such as Early Bird

Ventures and seven ventures as well as part of its investors. So today I'm talking to Dr.

Roman Ritweger or Roman I'm going to call Roman Roman now. So Roman,

tell us who are you?

I gathered from my research at your doctor,

you have years of medical expertise, you have an MBA, you work with McKinsey, you are Surin'

Emperor, you have all those achievements behind your name.

So tell us a little bit more about you.

Yeah, I'm really a doctor, a physician by training.

I didn't work a long time in medicine though.

I worked as a consultant more on the macro level of health care of health insurance and always thinking of the

customer and how actually to get the customer a better experience, but also how to make health insurance more affordable by steering the customer towards the right kind of medical care.

And that's been the main theme in my life and so you know after

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