Startups require attention, resources, and time. Finding an investor or partner that offers these factors is not an easy task and requires thoughtful and methodical intent.

Our guest for this episode has fostered, developed, and nurtured innovation, idea, and startups. 36 companies have had the opportunity to work with this venture group, and hundreds of others continue to reach out.

On this week’s episode of FNO: InsureTech, we are joined by Mike McCann, Senior Vice President of Corporate Partnerships at Rev1 Ventures. Rev1 Ventures is the investor startup studio that combines capital and strategic services to help startups scale and grow. Through their resources, Rev1 is able to work with startups to effectively validate a product, structure a company, land customers, raise capital, and build a team.

read more

On this episode of FNO: InsureTech, we are joined by Darin McCarthy, Vice President of Claims at Hippo Insurance. Hippo has automated the process and modernized coverage, allowing them to offer policies that cover the homes and possessions that consumers own today, with cost efficiency and effectiveness.

Tune in to this episode to hear Darin take us through Hippo’s model and how they view claims as a sales function. 

FNO: InsureTech Podcast interviews leaders from insuretech and insurance to get unique and intriguing perspectives on how technology is disrupting and transforming the industry. We bring stories, trends, and useful insights to our audience from carriers, insuretech companies, service providers, and various industry groups. New episodes each week.

read more

Strategy is important when it comes to developing an idea, a goal, an action, and for our intent and purpose, insurance.

By developing a strategy, a path can be formed that allows for clarity, understanding, and identifying the problems, as well as the solutions.

On this week’s episode of FNO: InsureTech, we are joined by Mark Breading, Partner & Chief Research Officer at Strategy Meets Action (SMA). As a strategic advisory firm, SMA delivers advice, consultation, and published research to insurers, solution providers, and insuretech startups. They provide insights and guidance that help clients connect and embrace today’s business strategies, plans, and technology investments to the new world of customer experience, digital transformation, emerging technologies, and insuretech.

read more

Weather is the lifeblood of claims. It can be the decisionmaker, the telltale sign, the cause. 

One company has taken its roots in the weather, providing data points that can be used in predicting claims patterns and insights and determining when an insurer should file a claim. 

On this week’s episode of FNO: InsureTech, we are joined by Demetrius Gray, CEO & Co-Founder of WeatherCheck. WeatherCheck monitors properties for hail damage so that insurance carriers, mortgage companies, and property owners can take action. Their out-of-the-box solution provides detailed modeling without the need for additional, costly resources.

read more

Data is power. It creates. It moves. With data comes knowledge and information that can be integral and crucial to a business, organization, even an infrastructure of a city.

This week, we talk with a business that makes sense of data points and turns it into useable, logical big data.

On this week’s episode of FNO: InsureTech, we are joined by Carey Ann Nadeau, Founder & CEO of Open Data Nation (ODN). ODN combines detailed public records and industry expertise to reveal new, leading indicators of risks in cities. By measuring the risk around customers, they are able to develop customized profiles of data points that are unique and applicable.

read more

***This episode of the FNO: InsureTech was recorded prior to Hurricane Dorian. Our thoughts and prayers are with those impacted by this storm.***

The world of insurance is constantly evolving. As technologies innovate and improve the claims processes, customer-insurer relationships are also evolving and adapting. Innovation is becoming a practice in and of itself. 

This week, we get a glimpse of the evolving insurance industry from the perspective of a CCO.

On this week’s episode of FNO: InsureTech, we are joined by Catherine Reese, Chief Claims Officer at Tower Hill Insurance Group (https://www.thig.com). As one of Florida’s largest residential property insurers with more than 800+ insurance agencies throughout the state, Tower Hill has been protecting Florida’s home and business owners for nearly half a century.

read more

Communicating with customers is integral to any business. When it comes to communicating with the insured, it’s important to build rapport and relationships that allow easy flow of information. 

On this week’s episode of FNO: InsureTech, we are joined by Miguel Fernandez, Founder of Claimbot (https://www.claimbotcx.com). Claimbot’s technology integrates with your systems to ensure users receive accurate and actionable answers—reducing the need to connect with a call center agent and delivering a better customer experience for the auto, warranty, and insurance industries.

read more

“Artificial Intelligence” and “Drone Technology” have been recent and relevant buzz phrases in the insuretech industry. The application of these technologies have mostly been used in separate situations, but when you put the two together, you get a result that can do amazing things.

On this week’s episode of FNO: InsureTech, we are joined by Andy “Maverick” Liu, Founder & CEO of Bees360 Inc. (https://www.bees360.com). Bees360 is empowering property inspections by leveraging AI, Big Data, and Drone Technology to make the claims process more accurate, cost-effective, and efficient.

read more

SMS is has become a commonplace form of communication. Notifications have become the normal. The ease of communication has opened up opportunities to contact customers on a more personable, direct way.

One company has taken a direction in harnessing the power of SMS for smart and intelligent communication for businesses.

On this week’s episode of FNO: InsureTech, we are joined by Alex Beller, Co-Founder/President of Postscript (https://www.postscript.io). Postscript (Y Combinator W19 participant), is a messaging platform that lets you easily create and manage SMS marketing campaigns with detailed analytics designed to increase sales and revenue.

read more

SMS is has become a commonplace form of communication. Notifications have become the normal. The ease of communication has opened up opportunities to contact customers on a more personable, direct way.

One company has taken a direction in harnessing the power of SMS for smart and intelligent communication for businesses.

On this week’s episode of FNO: InsureTech, we are joined by Alex Beller, Co-Founder/President of Postscript (https://www.postscript.io). Postscript (Y Combinator W19 participant), is a messaging platform that lets you easily create and manage SMS marketing campaigns with detailed analytics designed to increase sales and revenue.

read more