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

September 2, 2022

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 

If you want to follow up on the offer Matthew makes towards the end of the podcast, please email hello@instech.co

Check out all of Instech’s latest reports, podcasts and online and in-person events at https://www.instech.co/