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There are over 180,000 FinTech ventures out there today.
Still, my team and I monitor 4.5 million of those ventures across markets every week.
Why, because the boundaries of business are becoming highly blurred. FinTech. InsurTech. HealthTech. WealthTech. AITech. This number changes every single month. But here’s the stat that really matters.
Regardless of market or region, only 25% of these ventures have secured funding and meaningful backing.
That means 75% are still on the outside looking in—searching not just for capital, but for access, credibility, and value-creating partnerships with Global Fortune 500 companies. And this is where things get interesting. Because funding isn’t just about money. It’s about how corporates think, how investors decide, and why some ventures scale while others stall.
In this podcast, we pull back the curtain on corporate venturing. Well, to be more precise, we will focus on the Venture-Client Model, or how a growth venture becomes a commercial customer of a corporation. Then it only makes sense for VCs, including corporate VCs, to invest in successful, repeatable partnerships. And what founders must understand if they want to build, grow, and scale—intelligently. You know this already. This isn’t theory. It’s strategy, tactics, tools, and hard-won insights from those who control capital and collaboration. So if you’re a founder, an operator, or a leader navigating this high-velocity digital transformation ecosystem, well, this podcast is for you.
Listen in. Challenge your assumptions. And join the conversation.
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Sangha Penesetti: Reinventing Enterprise’s Future Through Flexible Work
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Marinela Profi: Building the Trust Frontier or How Agentic AI Is Redefining Enterprise Decision-Making
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Andrei Craciunescu: Redesigning Insurance for the AI-Powered Startup Era
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Rob Schimek: Redesigning for a Connected Future
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Trust-by-Design: Lessons from the AI Frontier
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Stephen Brittain: Why Venture-Client Models Are Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Innovation
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Sebastian Denef: Scaling Agentic AI from Berlin to the World
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Agentic Frontier: Re-imagining Enterprise AI with EY x Microsoft
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Laurna Castillo: How Wildfire Resilience is Rebuilding California
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Yo Kwon: How AI Claim Letters Cut Errors, Costs, and Cycle Times
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Bobbie Shrivastav: Building the Insurance Ops OS - Generative AI Workflows That Cut 70% of Manual Work
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Amrit Santhirasenan: Talks Agentic Underwriting… From Theory to Enterprise Transformation
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Will Ross: The Federato Playbook — RiskOps, Appetite, and Winnability for Profitable Growth
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Sara Mikulski: One Source of Truth, Zero Excuses
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Arvind Sontha: Kyber’s AI Automation Transform Insurance Claims
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Charlie Wendland: How AI and Human Empathy Are Transforming the Future of Claims
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Barbara Schonhofer & Carmen Powell: Empowerment, Leadership, Inclusion & Future Growth
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Yandy Plasencia: Data Reconciliation for the CFO
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Mike Gulla: Power Outage Coverage Reinvented Amid 78% Surge
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Sterling Parker: Why Tech at Work Is Reshaping Flexible Work
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Sam White: Redefining Insurance, Leadership, and Innovation
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Amélie Breitburd: How Coopetition Could Double Europe’s Insurance Market
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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The CamCom x ERGO Story: Scaling AI from Vision to Value
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Joel Agard: Driving into Zurich Insurance’s Venture Client Engine
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Gregor Gimmy: Pioneer of the Venture Client Model
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Let’s Kickoff The Venture Client Series
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Lou Smith: Transforming Insurance with Neuron by WTW
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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James Birch: Ki Insurance’s Algorithmic Underwriting Revolution
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Mark Stern: Transforming Customer Journeys with Physical-Digital Experience Design for Growth
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Colin Hirdman: LinkedIn Growth Hacks, AI and Ethical Automation (Ethical Automation)
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May 29, 2025 |
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Gia Laudi: Why B2B SaaS Leaders Must “Forget The Funnel” and Embrace Customer-Led Growth
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May 21, 2025 |
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Ron Rock: Why Ohio is the Ultimate Launchpad for International Startups
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May 14, 2025 |
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Alon Kaufman: Unlocking the Future of Privacy Preserving Data Collaboration
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May 07, 2025 |
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Sara Simeone: NoCodeLab Vibe Coding or Launching AI Startups with No-Code
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Ivan and Olha Pylypchuk: Unlocking the Power of Agentic AI
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Areiel Wolanow On Unleashing AI, Quantum, and Emerging Tech
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Lisa Bechtold: From AI Governance to AI Transformation
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Alex Schmelkin: Transforming Insurance Underwriting with GenAI and AI Agents
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Anneli Scopazzi: AI-Driven Talent Management and Upskilling Strategies for High-Growth Ventures
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Emmanuel Djengue: Driving Tech Innovation & Sustainable Growth
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Anna Bojic: Disrupting Customer Engagement with Digital Wallet Technology
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Danilo Raponi: Driving Insurance Innovation & Sustainability at Generali (Driving Insurance Innovation & Sustainability)
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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John Hewitt: How CEOs Building Their Empire
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Danny Nathan: Driving Innovation and Venture Growth with Apollo 21
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Scott Gunther: Corporate Venture Capital, the Venture Client Model, and Driving Innovation in 2025
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Staci Gray: Empowering Entrepreneurs to Scale Their Businesses Through People, Processes, and Personal Transformation!
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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State of the Nation in Insurance Venturing
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Carolina Klint: Unveiling Key 2025 WEF Risk Insights
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Michael Lingelbach: Inside Hedra’s Agentic AI Revolution—Why Long-Form Video Is the Next Big Thing
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Denise Garth: Key Trends and Strategies for 2025 Shaping The Future of Insurance
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Top 2025 Technology Trends That You Need To Know
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Zaid Ammari: From Banking to Becoming a Digital PPC Pioneer
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Paul Austin: How Psychedelics and Microdosing Are Revolutionising Business
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Beate Chelette: Scaling Secrets from The Growth Architect
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Marinela Profi: Harnessing Generative AI for Competitive Advantage
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Adrian Mendoza: Breaking Barriers in Venture Capital by Championing Diversity in FinTech, AI, and Cybersecurity
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Marcy Axelrod: Deciding On How We Choose To Show Up
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Theo Lau: Unlocking Fintech Innovation and Inclusivity
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Ian Chamandy: Defining Your Unique Purpose in 7 Words
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Dawn Herndon: The Embeddable AI Revolution
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Ola Jacob: Demystifying Parametric Insurance
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Barbara Maheshwari: Scaling Success with the Remote Work Revolution
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Sri Ramaswamy: The Visionary Behind AI Decision Driven Claims Litigation
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Amrit Santhirasenan: Delivering Dynamic Pricing Decision Intelligence
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Eveline Ruehlin: Fashioning the Future Through Gen Zers’ Eyes
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Emanuel Rose: From Social CEOs To Humanizing Your Growth
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Magda Ramada: From Blockchain to Revolutionising Insurance with the Right Tech
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Nicole Peck: Exploring ITC Vegas 2024, Climate Change and Ethical AI.
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Jeff Abbott: The Future of Everywhere Work
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Nick Telson-Sillett: From Design My Night to Angel Investing… and more!
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Richard Gunn: On Hyperexponential… The Pricing Nerds!
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Karrie Sullivan: Hacking the Change Curve by Adopting AI in the Workplace
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Sean Languedoc: Outsourcing 2.0 to Access a Global Talent Pool (Outsourcing 2.0)
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Edward Brawer: Revolutionising Content Creation With AI-Powered Podcasting
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Jeannette Linfoot: From Corporate CEO To Entrepreneurial Success
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Bessem Ayari: Scaling up with Ergo ScaleHub Program
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Andrei Mincov: What You Need To Know About Trademarking
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Nick Pester: Mastering The Art of Scaling Legal Strategies for Expansion
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Colin Sanburg: From Financial House of Cards to Thriving Enterprise
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Brian Childress: The Fractional CEO
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Scott Ritzheimer: Scaling Predictable Success
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Oliver Wyman Series: John Johansen – Leveraging the startup culture within legacy corporations
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May 30, 2024 |
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Oliver Wyman Series: Brian McDermott – Inside Victors $3bn InsurTech Success
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May 22, 2024 |
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Oliver Wyman Series: Steve Abel – Reinventing InsurTech to Yield a Competitive Edge
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May 15, 2024 |
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Oliver Wyman Series: Steve Abel – Unlocking Legacy & Transforming Tech in Insurance
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May 08, 2024 |
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Oliver Wyman Series: Unlocking Value by Leveraging Commoditised Tech
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May 01, 2024 |
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Romaney O’Malley: Disrupting Financial Strategy in InsurTech
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Anika Jackson: Amplifying Your Brand Power
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Nektarios Liolios: Driving FinTech Innovation and Mental Health Advocacy
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Nicky Billou: Elon Musk-Style Thought Leadership Strategies for CEOs
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Yannick Even: A GenAI Visionary and the Future of Work
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Simon Guest: Orchestrating Digital Health Ecosystems
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Denzil Eden: Using AI To Transform Work
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Rich Edwards: Differentiating with Data in a World of AI
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Chris Miles: Why I Call Myself The Anti-Financial Advisor
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Sally Gimon: How Do The Mega-Rich Save BIG On Taxes
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Steve Selengut: Creating Income Freedom
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Lisa Wardlaw: Pioneering Digital & Personal Strategy for Growth
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Insight: Building an Authentic Identity in 2024
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Leandro DalleMulle: Trailblazing AI in Commercial Insurance Underwriting
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Alex Taylor: A CVC Lens on 2024
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Antony Elliott: The Zurich Innovation Championship
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Top Trends To Watch For In 2024
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Tom Kereszti: 2024 C-Suite and Beyond
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Ari Katz: Shaping BEA Ventures
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Franklin Manchester: Essential Strategies to Protect Your Data in 2024
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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George Morris: Scaling Up Ventures
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Kamran Hedjri: Revolutionizing Commoditized Payment Processing
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Monica Eaton: Resilient Strategies & Ethical Leadership
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Terence Bennett: Cracking The Cybersecurity Code
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Roi Agababa: Novidea, The Platform For The Insurance Distributor
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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John Rossman: Building Leadership Skills The Amazon Way
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Alex Shevelenko: Elevating Digital Document Experiences
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Pravina Ladva: The Economics of Digitalization
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Jonathan Green: Using Chat GTP For Profit
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Dr Andrée Bates: The World of AI in Healthcare
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Emily Tsitrian: Bossing Up or Disrupting Fintech and Millennial Management
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Mark Fidelman: Tokenizing Industries
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Jerry Fetta: Building Personal Wealth
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Megan Bingham-Walker: Why Embedded Goods-in-Transit Insurance
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Jacqueline Legrand: The Pioneer of Weather Insurance
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Michele Cimmino: A Dive Into Agile Transformation
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Sara St. John: The Frugalpreneur
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Frank Mendoza: From Data Analytics to Responsible AI
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Benjamin Friedman: The Factional CxO
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Saagar Govil: Reinventing the world of security with AI
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Dr Melissa Sassi: From BigTech To Building Ventures
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Brenden Kumarasamy: Delivering effective board level communication
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Brandon Leibowitz: Free Your Outreach With An SEO Strategy
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Clemens Behrend: Web3, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Per Axberg: AI Driven Legal Contracts
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Cyrille Godinot: Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Solutions
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Stephen Lathrope: Using Geospatial Data To Drive Dynamic Underwriting
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Gary Garth: The Zero to 100 Million Sales Blueprint
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Amy Buchan Siegfried: Last Night’s Game
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May 24, 2023 |
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Chris Hutchinson: Delivering Financial Rental Resilience
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May 18, 2023 |
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Sean Boyce: From scaling SaaS products to enabling financial inclusion
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May 11, 2023 |
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Jay Weintraub: Connecting Complex Industries With Connectiv
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May 03, 2023 |
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Nathan Stuck: What it Takes to Become a ‘B Corp’
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Tunde Salako: InsurTech Africa
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Pablo Duarte & Hilario Itriago: InsurTech LATAM
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Tim Lovett & Jeff Shi: Solving for small commercials
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Aaron Jones: Why considering Generative AI with Yepic!
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Tristan Pelloux: 1-0-1 on Scaling FinTechs
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Michael Doyle: Raising $5Bn of capital for growth ventures
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Axel Thibon: Wizest... Investing Made Easy
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Dennis Kelly: Digitizing direct mail with Postalytics
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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James Marshall: Spinning Fox the product-led design agency
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Guillaume Bonnissent: Achieving digital underwriting excellence
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Sara Simeone: 101 on NFTs With Niftyz
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Previsico’s CEO + co-founder on predicting and preventing flood risk
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Jeff Williams: Discovering Kayrros’ geospatial data
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Federico Spagnoli: Prudential and Embedded Health
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Alexis Cierra Vaughn: Preventing cyber crime with Cowbell
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Xavier Gomez: FinTech Trends 2023
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Meeri Savolainen: Inzmo... Driving home rental resilience
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Newsflash: IBM Partner Ecosystem Strategy 2023
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Lumley: FinTech Trends
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Steve Abel: Why is EPAM the best kept secret?
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Yann Barbarroux: Scaling Otonomi
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Paul Roetzer: The Marketing AI Institute
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Annap Derebail: Simplifying operations with advanced technology
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Christie Downs Wood: About handdii
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Mark McLaughlin: What are Risk Experiences?
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Danielle Guzman and Theodora Lau: The new and never normal
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Scott Gunther: The CVC world of IAG Firemark Ventures
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Henrique Volpi: Kakau building a digital platform in Brazil
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Dylan Bourguignon: SO-SURE... how to socialise insurance
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Janthana K.: Who is UK’s on-demand gig economy worker?
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Mike Minett: Portabl for gig workers
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Naby Mariyam: Who Is Coverhero?
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Iain Wilcox: Why IoT for commercial property?
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Henri Winand: Developing an electronic marketplace
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Simon Schneider: Investing in young ventures
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Kobi Bendelak: From retiring twice to building InsurTech Israel
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Farron Blanc: L&G America
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Kristian Feldborg: Building Versuvio Labs
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Sebastian Pitzer: Building InsurLab Germany
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Matt Connolly: Platformifying InsurTech Insights
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Mark Dennis: Building the first wave of digital ecosystems
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Jean-Charles Velge: Insurance-as-a-Service
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Sebastien Gaudin: Embedded Health... The next growth Frontier for insurance
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Simon Torrance: The future is embedded
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Efi Pylarinou: Why sustainability investing?
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Erlijn Sie: Reimagining financial inclusion
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Susanne Chishti: The State of FinTech
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Nicole Anderson: From FinTech venture building to sustainable investing
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May 25, 2022 |
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Gwen Yu: The world of sustainable finance
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May 18, 2022 |
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Sam Evans: InsurTech, Sustainability and ESG
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May 11, 2022 |
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Nigel Walsh: Making insurance loveable
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May 04, 2022 |
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Andrew Cons: Building an international unicorn
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Dr Robin Kiera: What is attention hacking?
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Minh Tran: Introducing Venture Capital as a Service
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Elisa Vlerich: 9.5 Ventures the VC for corporate venturing
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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David Kwon: A decade of societal change
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Dr Dietmar Kottmann: The InsurTech Radar
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Tanguy Touffut: Redining Parametric Insurance
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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David King: Using AI for algorithmic underwriting
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Nick Pester: Growth Ventures and the Role of The Legal Counsel
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Sid Chakravarthy: Supply Chain Monitoring, the Metaverse and NFTs
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Tobias Taupitz: The Lifestyle Bicycle Insurance Platform For The Collective
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Allison Schneider: A Lens on Vouch The Startup For Tech Founders
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Roman Rittweger: Insights on building a winning HealthTech startup in Germany
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Steven Mendel: Tips on how to build a sustainable growth business
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Helene Panzarino: Reinventing Finance and emerging FinTech business models
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Spiros Margaris: What does really matter in FinTech today?
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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The Four Types of Investment
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Sam Evans: From Investment Thesis to Strategic Partnerships
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Florian Graillot: Astorya.vc ... Europe’s Early-Stage InsurTech Investor
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Matthew Jones: Some Investors Care About Diversity
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Lens on Venture Scouting
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Defining The World of Corporate Venturing
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Why Scouting For Growth
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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An Introduction to Scouting for Growth – with Sabine VdL
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Dec 21, 2021 |