Special Episode: Matthew Grant & Henry Gale of InsTech. Parametric: where traditional insurers fear to tread

Today’s guests are InsTech CEO Matthew Grant (pictured top right)
and Research Analyst Henry Gale (bottom right). Regular listeners
will know that the InsTech team are my go-to experts from the
world of Insurtech. I rely on them to keep me informed and
connected with the most important developments in that burgeoning
field. Matthew Grant has spent over 30 years at the intersection
of technology and insurance. Since he co-founded the InsTech
events and intelligence platform five years ago, it has grown
into an extremely active global community of around 25,000
industry professionals which has worked with over 200 companies.
As this unique community has grown, so has its manpower and the
sophistication of its output. Instech’s regular research reports
are essential reading for incumbent insurance folk, tech
investors and entrepreneurs. And it is the latest InsTech report
that we are focusing on today. No-one will have managed to ignore
the Parametric Insurance phenomenon as it has exploded into our
consciousness, particularly over the past couple of years as
eye-catching launches and multi-million-dollar fundraisings have
made the headlines. With such an explosion of new ideas and
potential partners, the subject is a potential minefield. Who to
partner with? Which avenues to pursue and which to avoid?
Thankfully Instech has produced a comprehensive and highly
practical report on the subject. Matthew has been personally
involved with parametrics for over 25 years and Instech has been
closely engaged with all of the most interesting players in the
space since it was founded. One of the aims of InsTech is to
connect incumbents, investors and entrepreneurs around workable
ideas that have the best chance of succeeding in the real world
and this makes for a very focused podcast. And important for me,
Matthew and report author Henry may be supremely well connected
and clued up, but they have their feet on the ground and explain
their ideas with great enthusiasm but expressed in plain English
in an easy-going manner. This means you don’t need to have any
specialist knowledge or interest to learn an awful lot from this
conversation Enjoy the podcast NOTES As Matthew alludes to at the
start, he has been hosting the InsTech podcast since 2018. He has
notched up over 200 episodes with a cross-section of the
insurtech community. Check them out on your favourite podcast app
or here: https://www.instech.co/podcasts LINKS The report is
called Parametric Insurance in 2022: the 150+ Companies to Watch
Here's the
link: https://www.instech.co/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=21 
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