EP 12 - Oliver Lane - Head of Deal Flow at InsurTech Gateway - Market, Team and Product
Oliver Lane, the Head of Deal Flow at InsurTech Gateway, and I had such a great conversation. InsurTech Gateway is the only investor with its own FCA-authorised Incubator + Venture Capital Fund. The fastest place to build and launch an InsurTech idea.
Some of the topics that Oliver and I discussed:
- The beginning of his career in investment banking
- The sheer volume and diverse InsurTech companies
- InsurTech’s need for capacity and underwriting risk partners
- InsurTech Gateway’s backing by global reinsurers
- How InsurTech Gateway’s relationships with carriers help startups grow
- Gateway’s FCA approval and its umbrella structure that allows InsurTech’s to launch in two weeks
- The difference between the InsurTech markets in the United States and Europe
- Parametric insurance
- The components of a great founder
- The opportunity of blockchain solutions for insurance
- CoinCover
- AspenCoin
Some other titles we considered:
- The Fastest Place to Launch an InsurTech Idea
- We Act Almost As a Sandbox
- People Have Started to Take Note
- Trying to Push Froward One of the World’s Largest Financial Ecosystems
- We See Dots Not Lines