Ep 213 – ZestyAI Co-founder & CEO, Attila Toth

Attila Toth is the Co-founder & CEO of ZestyAI, a property risk analytics platform powered by artificial intelligence that offers access to precise intelligence about every property in North America. ZestyAI’s value proposition is simple: deliver risk and value insights about each and every property. They leverage aerial imagery, permit, transaction, weather and IoT data, combined with artificial intelligence (AI) to turn more than 200 billion data points into comprehensive digital records and property-specific risk scores. Join Attila, Rob, and Lee as they talk ZestyAI, artificial intelligence, rich data, wedding cake, Attila’s experience, and more.

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Ep 212 – Anthemis Managing Director, Ali Geramian

Ali Geramian is the Managing Director at Anthemis, a global platform that cultivates change in the financial system by investing in, growing, and sustaining businesses committed to resiliency, transparency, access, and equity. With an impressive portfolio that includes some of our past guests (Branch, flo, and Vouch), we bring Ali on to explore and understand what Anthemis is, their involvement, the current state of insuretech, a typical day for Ali, and much more.

Join Ali, Rob, and Lee on an episode that sheds more light on the growing, resilient, impactful spaces of venture capital and investments.

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Ep 211 – Modern Life CEO & Co-Founder, Michael Konialian

Michael Konialian is the CEO and Co-Founder of Modern Life, a next generation insurance company working to transform the life insurance industry and help everyone protect what matters most. Modern Life is aiming to innovate and streamline the life insurance process–from client, to advisor, to underwriter–faster, more confident, and more streamlined than ever before. Join Michael, Rob ,and Lee as they discuss what Modern Life is, accelerated underwriting processes, brokerage innovation, building trust with clients, and more.

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Ep 210 – Clearcover CEO & Co-Founder, Kyle Nakatsuji

Kyle Nakatsuji is the CEO and Co-Founder of Clearcover, a next generation insurance company providing smarter car insurance for digital consumers. Since co-founding Clearcover in 2016, Kyle remains laser-focused on his vision to build a company designed to lower operating costs through innovative technology and long-term customer centricity.

Join Kyle, Rob, and Lee as they talk about Clearcover, Kyle’s history in Clearcover and in venture capital; Kyle’s four-pillar approach, startup success, and much more.

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Ep 209 – American Family Ventures Managing Director, Kyle Beatty

It’s always a pleasure to have American Family Ventures (AmFam Ventures) on the show, and this week we bring on Kyle Beatty, Managing Director, to talk his position and experience; perspective and thoughts on venture capital; personal health, insuretech trends, and much more.

AmFam Ventures operates at the forefront of insurance, and has developed an ecosystem of limited partners, founders, and innovators, from across all major lines and beyond, to join them in the pursuit of one goal: To shape the future of the industry.

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Ep 208 – 2023 Verisk Elevate Conference – Mike Fulton & Aaron Brunko

Join Rob and Lee as they talk with Mike Fulton, former President of Property Estimating Solutions at Verisk and the new President of Property Estimating Solutions at Verisk, Aaron Brunko, in our special edition of FNO: InsureTech, recorded live at the 2023 Verisk Elevate Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Join Rob and Lee as they discuss the present and past with Mike, as well as the future and what’s next for Verisk and their solutions with Aaron. Two great conversations that celebrate Verisk and two conversations you don’t want to miss.

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Ep 207 – Forrester Principal Analyst, Ellen Carney

Rob and Lee talk with Ellen Carney, Principal Analyst at Forrester. Ellen serves decision makers in roles such as CIOs and enterprise architects in the insurance and wealth, investment, and asset management industries. Her research focuses on the technology decisions that financial services firms are investing in, including core platforms modernization and replacement and the integration of emerging technologies with legacy systems to drive better digital experiences and improved operational efficiency.

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Ep 206 – Demotech President and Co-founder, Joseph Petrelli

Join Rob and Lee as they talk with Joseph Petrelli, President and Co-founder of Demotech on this episode of FNO: Insuretech you don’t want to miss. Demotech leverages information to help assign an informed Financial Stability Rating® (FSR). FSRs help level the playing field for financially stable insurers and are based upon a series of quantitative ratios and certain qualitative factors. The rating process provides an objective baseline for assessing solvency based upon changes in financial stability, as presented in an insurer’s balance sheet over time.

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Ep 205 – IA Capital Group Managing Partner, Andrew Lerner

FNO: InsureTech continues its dive into venture capital, and this week we’re happy to have Andrew Lerner, Managing Partner of IA Capital Group, on the show. Andrew is responsible for the day-to-day activities of IA Capital and is a member of its investment committee. Join Lee and Rob as they talk with Andrew and learn more about IA Capital Group, their past investments, Insuretech 2.0, chess, and more on this episode you don’t want to miss.

To learn more about IA Capital Group, visit https://www.iacapgroup.com.

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Ep 204 – Aquiline Technology Growth Partner & Head, Max Chee

Aquiline’s venture capital group, Aquiline Technology Growth (ATG), is dedicated to making early and growth stage investments across Insuretech, Fintech and related Enterprise. With several of our past insuretech guests having been grown and supported by Aquiline, FNO: InsureTech wanted to bring them on the podcast to learn more about ATG, how they’re funding insuretech, and to pick the mind of the Max Chee, Partner and Head. Join Max and Rob on this episode that dives into venture capital and more.

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