The founders‘ stories - start-up to scale-up (158)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Podcast 158 features the highlights from Part 1 of our first live event back at The Steel Yard in London and is packed with advice for start-ups looking to grow and future founders. Ed Leon Klinger (Flock), Oliver Brew (CyberCube), Andre Symes (Genasys Technologies), and Jonathan Spry (Envelop Risk) returned to the InsTech London stage to discuss their experiences of the journey from start-up to scale-up. They shared their insights with Matthew and Robin on surviving the ups and downs of early-stage growth and building successful products, right through to securing hundreds of millions of dollars in investment funding and much more. Talking points include: Market analysis and how to spot opportunities Focusing on your USP and building the right team The importance of data and how to get it from clients The benefits of ecosystems and harnessing new technologies Insurtech disruption vs insurer partnerships If you would like to hear more from the speakers and companies involved in the event, you can listen to separate podcasts with Ed (Podcast 126), Andre (Podcast 106) and CyberCube CEO Pascal Millaire (Podcast 120). Jonathan shared his insights on how to build a successful technology enabled MGA on Podcast 142. Part 2 of the highlights from the event, featuring interviews with the founders of four new arrivals on the insurtech scene, will be available in a future episode of the InsTech London podcast. 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. The Learning Objectives for this podcast are: Hear from established companies on the challenges facing start-ups and the key to ensuring their survival Realise the importance of data for start-ups and where to source it Compare some of the ways a start-up can build a team 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 158 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	I feel I want to poke the screen to make sure they're all real, but you are definitely real.
0:08.0	We're delighted, of course, to have you here tonight.
0:11.3	You survived 18 months of COVID and 8 hours of rain to get here.
0:16.4	So thank you very much.
0:34.6	Well, as you have all gathered, if you're following what we're up to at Instech, our live events are back. And whilst I really enjoy our private chats with our guests over
0:37.7	Zoom, there is nothing quite like interviewing somebody in front of an audience of over 200 people
0:42.9	in the room to keep us all on our toes. Thank you to all of you, our regular listeners, loving all
0:48.0	the comments coming in. Top one this week is from Dan from Howden, who told me he'd given up listening
0:53.0	to podcasts about football and is now
0:54.7	listening to Instech. Well, I'm not too sure what that says about the state of English football
0:58.7	clubs or soccer for those of you in the US. But as I'm sure you've noticed, Dan, when Robin
1:03.2	Merton is in the chair, you'll still get your occasional football fix. Now, if it's your first
1:08.2	time listening, well, you made it this far, so please do hang in there.
1:11.6	I stopped talking in a moment, and this week we've got four excellent founders speaking to us.
1:16.6	Now, this was the first half of our recent live event back in the Steel Yard in London, and each of our guests had launched their company, or come over to the UK, in one case, about five years ago.
1:26.6	At that time, they've been up on stage with us,
1:28.8	talking to us about what they are doing. And we are delighted to say they are still around,
1:33.5	and in fact, doing extremely well. Causation or correlation, you can be the judge. So we asked them back
1:39.3	on stage. They're all corporate members to find out what they're up to today, how things have
1:43.4	been going since we last heard from them, and, of course, what they're up to today, how things have been going since we
1:44.1	last heard from them, and of course, importantly, their advice to today's founders.
1:48.6	Now, we'll be bringing you the second part of that event, the chat with the new arrivals,
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