MENA Series with Dorra Mahbouli: Pet insurance in Tunisia with Dhia Zitouni, co-founder of Petsigo

Tunis, Tunisia
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In another episode of the MENA (the Middle East & North Africa) Series, Dorra Mahbouli, VP of Corporate Strategy at Zitouna Finance, spoke to Dhia Zitouni, co-founder of Petsigo, the first reimbursement-based digital insurance for pets in Tunisia. It is accessible via a user-friendly mobile application that offers services, including locating nearby vets, submitting a claim to receive reimbursement, blog articles, and posts related to pets.

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Insurance as an alternative to rental deposits with Meeri Savolainen, co-founder of INZMO

Berlin
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Meeri Savolainen, the CEO, and co-founder of INZMO, Berlin-headquartered InsurTech, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about creative solutions for tenants being asked to pay a rental deposit and house contents insurance which is not only easy when a client is being onboarded, but also when they make a claim.

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Africa Series with Stacey Japhta: Personalizing customer service with Aneesa Ameer, Head of Innovation at ABSA Life

Gauteng, South Africa
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In this episode of the Africa Series, Stacey Japhta spoke to Aneesa Ameer, Head of Innovation at ABSA Life in South Africa. Aneesa discussed all things FinTech, personalizing customer service and encouraging your kids to think outside the box.

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Tech-led customer centricity in the insurance industry with Wefox's CFO, Fabian Wesemann

Berlin, Germany
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How to bring customer-centricity to the insurance industry? Leveraging technology from the ground up, explains Fabian Wesemann, co-founder and Group CFO at Wefox, a USD 3bn InsurTech unicorn that started in Switzerland. Co-hosted by Wani Baumgartner, Finance and Life Sciences recruiter and Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast.

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Americas Series with David Yakobovitch: At the intersection of Insurtech and Real Estate with Derek Merrill (LeaseLock)

Santa Monica, CA
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LeaseLock is the world’s leading InsurTech platform for real estate. LeaseLock is the world’s leading InsurTech platform for real estate. LeaseLock's flagship lease insurance product leverages AI to eliminate security deposits from operating infrastructure. CEO and co-founder Derek Merrill explains why security deposits and surety bonds are done, how LeaseLock leads the overdue disruption of the insurance and real estate industries and more - in Americas Series with David Yakobovitch.

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The Insurtech Series: Where to play?

Lausanne
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We talk to Marc Gruber, Vice President Innovation at EPFL and Professor of Entrepreneurship, about innovation, entrepreneurship, implications for FinTech, InsurTech and incumbents. In their book Where to play, Marc Gruber, together with Sharon Tal, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, address the issue of the need of start-ups to get to the target market first vs. the reality that more than 70% of them end up pivoting anyway. How to pick the right arena/domain early on to make pivoting less costly and increase the chances of success? How does entrepreneurship differ in Europe vs. the US or Asia?

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The Insurtech Series: The government & the start-ups with A. Silberschmidt

Zurich
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In this episode, we speak to Andri Silberschmidt, entrepreneur and the youngest member of the Swiss Parliament about his entrepreneurial journey, what drawn him to politics, views on Switzerland as a home for start-ups, Swiss government's measures to help start-ups to deal with the COVID-19 pandemics and the early thoughts on the world after the lockdown.

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Founder story: Last mile in data analytics with Luminant Analytics

Basel
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Renu Ann Joseph, founder and CEO of Luminant Analytics, a Swiss-American InsurTech start-up, talks about the "last mile" when it comes to using data science and data analytics in the insurance industry. We also talk about the benefits of open innovation for both insurers and InsurTechs. Renu also shares some early thoughts on the impact of the COVID-19 on the start-ups and the insurance industry.

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Enterprise Bot - Founder(s) story: Customer service that works!

Zurich
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Co-founders Ravina Mutha and Pranay Jain explain their (sometimes adventurous) entrepreneurial journey so far. We talk about why they chose to be entrepreneurs from an early age and why their AI-powered chatbot is enterprise-ready. Multilingual natural language processing (NLP) is the core of their technology.

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