Assessing InsurTechs’ Greatest Value to the Industry: Talent
The biggest contribution of InsurTech to the insurance industry may well be talent—technology talent, insurance talent, just raw talent.
Content from Adrian Jones
Adrian Jones is a Partner at HSCM Ventures, the venture capital investment arm of Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., an alternative asset manager in re/insurance and transport. Before joining HSCM in 2021, he was Deputy CEO of P&C Partners at SCOR, where he set up and led SCOR P&C Ventures. From 2010 to 2016, he was head of strategy at RenaissanceRe. He started his career in 2001 at Bain & Co and has lived and worked in New York, Paris, Bermuda, Brussels and Stockholm. A past CM contributor, Jones was also a guest editor for Carrier Management’s 2018 featured magazine section, “Startups Face Off Against Established Players”; co-editor Matteo Carbone.
Can an InsurTech Startup Compete With Progressive and GEICO?
The most common refrain of startups is that insurance is broken and their solution will fix it. Oui, c'est vrai. But two companies have their act together more than almost any other insurers: GEICO ...
Startups vs. Incumbents Revisited: Q32018
We first pointed out in a second quarter analysis of VC-backed startups Root, Lemonade and Metromile that companies run or led by well-known underwriters were growing slowly but far more profitable ...
‘Root’ of the Problem: Why One InsurTech’s Loss Ratios Still Disappoint
In the first part of this four-part article, we revealed that Root—currently the fastest growing carrier of three VC-backed InsurTechs we've been tracking—also posted the worst loss ratio result ...
So You Wanna Be an Innovator in a Big Company
Here's what I've learned. 1. Ban the "I" word. Most innovation in insurance companies comes where customers (or distributors) encounter the company. This is one reason that 89 percent of insurance ...
‘He’s Gaining on Us?’ An ‘Inconceivable’ Quarter of InsurTech Carrier Financials
As we worked on pulling together this third installment of our review of U.S. InsurTech startup financials, we were reminded of the scene from "The Princess Bride" in which a masked man in black ...
Congratulations! You’re Innovating In A Highly Regulated Industry
What's in a name? A recent startup proclaims:"[Company name] Insurance is a [line of business] insurance company that provides [line of business] coverage to small ...
Second-Quarter 2018 Financial Details for Lemonade, Root and Metromile
Does Lemonade have shlimazels for customers? Is slower second-quarter growth at Root an indicator that the carrier is deliberately focusing on profitability? Do Ajit Jain and Rob Berkley know ...