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In this episode of the FNO: InsureTech Podcast, Rob Beller and Lee Boyd sit down with Caribou Honig, Chairman and Co-Founder of InsureTech Connect. Ever charming and insightful, Caribou shares insights from his experience building a home in Santa Fe, covering the challenges of obtaining homeowners insurance in wildfire-prone areas. The discussion explores the innovations and challenges of the insuretech marketplace, the implications of market dislocation, and the role of innovative insuretech players in addressing gaps. His candid reflections on the sector's growth, the role of technology, and future trends present valuable insights for all listeners involved in insuretech. Key Highlights Caribou discusses the unique challenges of securing homeowners insurance in wildfire-risk areas, including market dislocation and pricing complexities. Insight into New Mexico's proactive water and wildfire management practices. A discussion on the current alternative insurance market offerings and the noticeable pricing diversity. Caribou reflects on the health of the insuretech landscape, emphasizing the importance of niche players and the potential future impact of A.I. The growth and influence of the InsureTech Connect conference in driving industry innovation and connection.

Show Notes: Julie Lin was a medical student at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons when she met her future husband. It was the first day of medical school and they met while attending a class where they were both serious amateur classical musicians. Julie talks about their shared love of music and how they planned to have a family quartet.  The All-state Orchestra Model Julie shares her story of starting an orchestra at medical school, which initially had a traditional weekly rehearsal and concert. However, they found that the show rate was low as exam time approached, leading to the creation of the Allstate orchestra model. This model involved distributing music and parts ahead of time, having a three or four-hour rehearsal, and playing in front of an invited live audience. Experiences at Medical School  Julie initially thought she would be a clinician, but during her nephrology fellowship program, she trains to become a specialist in kidney medicine, she also became interested in clinical research. This realization led her to pursue academic nephrology, which was life-changing for her. After her husband's residency and postdoctoral training in Boston, Julie started working as an instructor at Harvard Medical School and attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital. As part of her job offer, she negotiated for funding from the nephrology division to obtain a Master's in Public Health from Harvard, focusing on quantitative analysis rather than policy. Working in Nephrology Research Julie worked as an investigator in the Channing laboratory at Brigham and Women's Harvard, where they had ongoing cohort studies of health professionals for over 10 years. She was one of the many NIH-funded investigators in the Nurses Health Study, a cohort study of  >120,000 US nurses who signed up in 1976. A subset of women in the study had submitted blood and urine samples, which allowed for analyses of  change in estimated kidney function over 11 years between 1989 and 2000.   Kidney Function Decline Research  Julie's research included looking at diet, nutrients, foods, and dietary patterns and how they impacted kidney function and change. Work that gained the most media attention was diet work. Her research found that drinking two or more servings of artificially sweetened drinks, likely soda, was associated with a faster kidney function decline in women over 11 years. This was about three times faster than normal aging alone. The researchers adjusted for factors like diabetes and high blood pressure, which are big risk factors for kidney function loss. Julie also talks about research on the Mediterranean diet vs. Western dietary patterns.  Diet for Kidney Health The conversation turns to the concept of the blue zone, which has been associated with longevity and longevity, but that many people living over 100 years in these areas may have exaggerated their age due to poor record keeping. This leads Julie to remark that a main concern for scientists is how well information is being captured and measured.  Julie shares tips on the best diet for kidney health. Low sugar intake is recommended, as it can lead to weight gain and diabetes. Vegetarian diets are also healthy, and fish is recommended as the main source of animal protein. A Clinical Research Career in Industry Julie talks about the reduction in academic research funding, and why she decided to continue her clinical research career in industry, working on clinical trials and developing new drugs. She has worked with Amgen, Genzyme, a rare disease company, as well as at a gene therapy startup called Dimension Therapeutics, which was acquired by Ultragenyx. Her current role is as global project head at Sanofi. She talks about her role and the importance of assessing efficacy and safety of new therapies. Playing in Community Orchestras and Chamber Music Julie explains that, as an amateur musician, she has found it to be a great outlet for her stress and the intense work she had to do while working and taking care of her children when they were younger. She joined a community orchestra in 2012,  since then she has played in a number of community orchestras, including New Philharmonia, Longwood, and Brookline Symphony. Julie has also played with the Mercury Orchestra, founded and conducted by Channing Yu, Class of 93. Recently, she decided to focus on chamber music, which has been her true love. She has a lot of local musician friends to play with. Julie explains that playing chamber music brings a sense of flow and connection to others, making it a great gift.  Influential Harvard Professors and Courses Julie shares her experiences in Harvard's music 180 class, taught by Leon Kirchner and Lynn Chang, which was an intense experience. She also recalls a class where a modern and atonal piece was played by an advanced violinist, which changed her view of Schoenberg's music. She also mentions Helen Vendler's poetry class. Timestamps: 05:38 Medical school experiences, including a non-linear podcast format and a successful orchestra performance 09:30 Career paths in medicine, including becoming a physician scientist, with insights on negotiation for benefits and research in nephrology  16:31 Diet and kidney function, with findings on artificial sweetened drinks and Mediterranean diet 21:17 Aging, nutrition, and kidney health with a former academic researcher turned pharmaceutical industry professional 28:36 Musical experiences and focus on chamber music 33:01 Music, Harvard, and the importance of flow Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-lin-md-mph-fasn-71796b2a/   Featured Non-profit The featured non-profit of this episode is Esperanza Shelter, recommended by Caribou Honig who reports “Hi, I'm Caribou Honig, class of 1992. The featured nonprofit of this episode of The 92 report is Esperanza shelter. The shelter does incredibly important work, enabling people and very importantly, their children, to escape abusive relationships throughout northern New Mexico. Equally important, is that they provide a wide range of services to help those survivors get back on their feet, providing everything from emergency shelter to transitional housing to counseling and life skills. My wife and I have been donating to Esperanza shelter since 2020. You can learn more about their work at Esperanza shelter.org. Esperanza for those of you not in the know is the Spanish word for hope. And now here's Will Bachman with this week's episode. To learn more about their work, visit https://esperanzashelter.org/.

Caribou Honig is a partner at SemperViren Ventures, a VC firm that specializes in investing in workforce, healthcare, and financial technologies. In this episode, we discuss quitting jobs, taking risks, Insurance, and Venture capital in 2023. 0-1: Intro 1-5: Stupid Career Decisions 5-8: InsureTech 8-10: How will younger people become interested in insurance? 10-11: Opportunities at CapitalOne 11-13: Hierarchy of technology 13-16: Insurance API's 16-18: What Caribou Invests In 18-21: What do you look for in a founder? 21-23: Dilution in Venture Capital   23-27: Investing in companies in 2023 27-32: Should Venture Capital be democratized? 32-34: How to find business opportunities 34-35: InsureTech Niche 35-40: The math behind Insurance 40-42: Assessing Risk 43-47: Advice to college students

Caribou Honig, our most frequent guest and honorary chairman, returns to get us excited about ITC Vegas and the state of InsureTech in general. In our chat, we go down memory lane about how the conference started and how it's grown throughout the years to now be the Super Bowl of events in the insurance space. Caribou talks about the importance of scalability and sustainability, why you should hug your local regulator, and the importance of finding and focusing on your niche.    Learn More: www.fnoinsuretech.com Caribou Honig LinkedIn ITC Vegas    What You'll Hear In This Episode: [2:12] It's the Super Bowl of InsureTech - the ITC!  [5:18] Why did Caribou choose Santa Fe?  [7:50] Launching and selling InsureTech Connect.  [9:06] The growth of the conference over time. [10:15] Caribou's appreciation of the emotional feedback from in person conferences.  [10:40] Does Caribou fancy himself an insuretech professional, conference professional, or both?  [11:50] This year, the ITC Vegas conference expects over 9,000 people.  [13:07] What insuretech is today, and how it has developed over the years. Also, how it is similar to FinTech.  [14:55] The importance of finding and focusing on your niche.  [17:32] The maturation of the industry.  [20:57[ How the M&A market has been over the past several years, and how that has affected InsureTech.  [30:44] How the energy has shifted from the customer facing InsureTechs over to the B2B.  [32:50] Caribou discusses his interest in regulation.  [36:43] Caribou's advice: hug a regulator when you see them!  [36:44] What can we expect for the conference, and what if someone wants to hang with Caribou while there? [38:30] Caribou's two day jobs right now: launching and growing conferences and working as a general partner at the VC Fund SemperVirens.   

On this episode of Conversations on the Creek, Rob Savitsky chats with Caribou Honig, Chairman and Co-founder at InsureTech Connect (ITC), and Partner at SemperVirens Venture Capital about why he started ITC, what attendees can expect at this year's event, as well as his predictions for what technologies will impact insurance in the future.  As a VC back in 2016, Caribou had been investing in the broader fintech space and was looking to begin investing more specifically in insurtech. The problem: as Caribou was trying to learn more about the industry, he couldn't find an event that met his needs that was insurance and technology specific. The solution: he started ITC! This year's conference will take place October 31 – November 2 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada and will feature 9000+ industry attendees and 400+ speakers. Register for ITC Vegas by going to www.insuretechconnect.com and follow Caribou on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caribou/.  At Duck Creek we are thrilled to be attending ITC Las Vegas this year. Please stop by our booth #2231 on November 1 and 2nd, where we will be showcasing our partners from across the insurance ecosystem, and describing how they integrate with Duck Creek. We look forward to meeting you and discussing how you can reimagine the future of insurance. Check out all our other episodes and follow, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and by visiting www.duckcreek.com/podcasts.                   

Will Bachman and Caribou Honig, a member of Harvard and Radcliffe's class of 1992, had a conversation about Caribou's journey since graduating. Caribou graduated from the University of Virginia with a JD MBA and got his first and only real job at Capital One. During his tenure, he met his soon to be wife and had a couple of kids. In 2006, Caribou left Capital One and took a year off to spend time with his family. He then co-founded a boutique venture capital firm and launched a couple of industry tech conferences. Hosting a Successful Conference Caribou was not expecting to be in the conference business, yet he found himself creating an industry tech conference. He began to focus on the subsector insure tech around 2015 and was looking for a good industry conference to attend. He couldn't find one to his liking so he decided to create his own and has since been running the conference successfully.  He explains how he created the world's largest Insurer Tech conference. With a partner, he launched the Insurer Tech Connect conference, which became a large success. Subsequently, they launched Transform, a conference focused on the impact of technology on the workplace. This year, they are launching other conferences such as Prop Tech, Logistics Tech, Food, and Ag Tech. Caribou shared that the process of creation was exciting and interesting for him. They lined up the venue and dates for the conference, which was held at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Tactics for a Successful Conference Caribou talks about how they organized and promoted a successful Insurtech conference in Las Vegas. They booked the Las Vegas Convention Center, set a goal of 600-1000 attendees, and ended up with 1500. They created a one-page PDF to explain the event and sent it to potential attendees and key speakers. They also asked venture capitalists to promote the event and offer discounts to their portfolio companies. In the end, the conference was a success, and it was gratifying to see 1000 people having conversations and networking. He was a VC at a conference that wanted to make it easier for people to meet and double opt-in to meetings. To do this, they created an app where people could see who else was attending, what they were interested in, and describe what they were looking for. In addition, they had flags at tables with numbers so that when people double opted-in to meetings they knew exactly where to meet at what time. However, they had more people than they had tables and flags, so they had to make do with tape on the floor and numbered squares. In the end, the solution worked and people appreciated the simple social engineering. Events for Venture Capitalists Will asks what makes the event great for a VC, and how that could be different from what other stakeholders like an entrepreneur might value. Caribou explains that vendors can be a difficult stakeholder to work with because they often come to events with the intention of making a sale. This does not align with the investor mindset, so vendors can sometimes get frustrated when they are not able to get on stage. The conversation highlights the tension between creating an event that is tailored to the needs of the VC and the needs of other stakeholders. The conversation discusses the post-COVID period, how people are now more eager to attend events, and that people are cutting back on attending certain events. Caribou suggests that certain categories of people, such as entrepreneurs gearing up to fundraise, can benefit from attending such events. Prequalifying People for a Conference Caribou and Will  discuss how to prequalify people for a conference. Caribou explains that they would not prohibit people from buying tickets and attending, as it would be exceptional and bad behavior. However, they need to curate what's on stage, so if a company is uninteresting to them, they won't be onstage. They are open to the idea of companies paying for space in the Expo Hall. Pay-to-play on stage is something they avoid, as it cheapens the quality of the product. The events are all held in Vegas, as it is neutral territory, has great logistics, and it is difficult for people to just pop in and out. This ensures all attendees get the most out of the event. Timestamps: 07:28 Planning a Successful Conference Event  11:46 Leveraging Word of Mouth and Earned Media for Event Promotion  14:11 Designing a Networking Event  15:57 VC Matchmaking at Honig Caribou Conference  19:58 Designing Events for VCs and Other Stakeholders  26:24 Social Engineering Design Insights: Bringing in Name Brand Artists to Increase Attendance  29:11 The Economics of Running a Conference  32:47 Impact of COVID-19 on B2B Trade Marketing and InsureTech Connect Conference  40:05 Prequalifying Attendees and Benefits of Hosting Events in Las Vegas  52:28 Investing in Innovative Companies and Harvard Courses  54:19 Overcoming Challenges in Physics Math Class  Links: Website: sempervirensvc.com  CONTACT INFO: linkedin.com/in/caribou Twitter: @caribou101

Hosts James Benham & Rob Galbraith are joined by Caribou Honig from SemperVirens Venture Capital & InsureTech Connect. James, Rob & Caribou discuss funding innovation and what's upcoming with InsureTech Connect.Find us on social media!We're on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, or follow James on Twitter!Subscribe, rate, and comment.As always -Enjoy the Ride & Geek Out!

In our annual tradition, FNO: InsureTech talks with InsureTech Connect founders Jay Weintraub and Caribou Honig. Join Jay, Caribou, Rob, and Lee in this great conversation as they talk about the annual conference, its history and current state, insuretech 2.0, and much more. ITC 2022 happens from September 20-22, 2022. We wish all the attendees a wonderful time celebrating insurance and technology, and the intersection between that continues to evolve and innovate the verticals. Like what you hear on FNO: InsureTech? Know someone who would be a great guest for the podcast? Let us know: Email us at almoss@alacritysolutions.com.

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISVOzDQyKM&t=1sTony chats with Caribou Honig, Chairman, and Founder at Insurtech Connect. This was such an incredible conversation that I won't even try to summarize. Quite simply, don't miss this one!Mortgage Connects, an MGIC PodcastInsights and tips from top mortgage industry pros!Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Today in Manufacturing Inside the biggest stories impacting U.S. manufacturing.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Caribou Honig, Partner, Semper Virens VC.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as:What Macro trends are interesting to you in the Insurtech space at present? The different “flavors” of entrepreneur Starting up an events business How have investor's profiles changed? What do you zero in on when making an investment decision? People? Product? Other? 'Legacy culture vs legacy technology' What is actually standing in the way of change Making the move into insurance without an insurance background Being one of the first adopters of insurtechWhat attracted you to insurtech in those early stages?What's next for insurance?Thank you Caribou for your time, it was great to speak to you!This Podcast was brought to you by FinPro, an executive recruitment business that works in the Insurance and Insurtech space.Our host in FinPro Director, Alex BondPlease like and subscribe if you enjoyed this podcast Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Walk through the expo hall, it'll give you a sense of the mega trends and the micro trends, of what's out there and what people are trying to do”, says Caribou. The charismatic VC couldn't find an industry conference in 2015 that met his needs as an investor. Insuretech Connect was born in 2016, with the first event attracting some 1500 delegates. This year's event, running in Las Vegas from 4-6 October, will attract 5000 attendees and 250+ speakers. 3 days of understanding what's possible and what's being pursued.  Caribou explains the three kinds of value people can expect from a visit. “There's the education and learning, from all the great content on stage. Then there's networking with the people you know you want to meet. My favourite is the serendipity, meeting people you didn't know you wanted to meet.”       Find out more about in-person or online ticket options at http://www.insuretechconnect.com (www.insuretechconnect.com) or connect with Caribou on https://www.linkedin.com/in/caribou/ (LinkedIn) The Insurance Coffee House Podcast is hosted by Nick Hoadley, CEO of Insurance Search, the Executive Search Consultancy for growing Insurance and Insurtech businesses in the United States and UK. To discuss identifying & attracting the very best talent to your team or being a podcast guest, reach out to Nick via http://www.insurance-search.com/ (www.insurance-search.com) or email nick.hoadley@insurance-search.com Copyright https://insurance-search.com/ (Insurance) https://insurance-search.com/ (Search) 2021 – All Rights Reserved.

Caribou Honig, chairman and co-founder of InsureTech Connect (ITC), who is also the co-founder of Blueprint and HR Transform conferences, and a general partner at SemperVirens Venture Capital, joins Gilad Shai to talk about InsurTech, PropTech (RealEstateTech), the inseam that connects insurance and real estate, kayaking and catching crabs.#InsurTechTalk by @InsurTechLAEpisode 48

An early digital marketer who transformed a deep domain expertise, Jay Weintraub has a passion for thoughtfully connecting into what is today a portfolio of industry defining summits. InsureTech Connect, which he co-founded with Caribou Honig, is the world's largest gathering of entrepreneurs, investors, and insurance industry executives. Launched in 2016, more than 6,000 will attend our annual event in October 2018. Jay also started Grow.co, the largest professional community for acquisition marketers and product / engagement professionals.  HR Transform brings together a global gathering of HR Tech entrepreneurs, investors, and people professionals from across the new work ecosystem. And, previously, he founded and sold LeadsCon, the world's largest gathering of vertical media professionals and brands. Prior to that, Jay was part of the founding management team for Los Angeles based Oversee.net, which built one of the largest vertically focused advertising technology platforms, and spent two and half years with Advertising.com in Baltimore, MD. Jay has speaks across the globe and is an investor in 30+ companies as well having been an advisor to more than a dozen. Highlights from the Show Jay saw agents attending an online lead gen conference, and couldn't understand why He's not an insurance guy, so he's struggled with imposter syndrome a bit The original idea he had was an agent show, but Caribou wasn't interested in being so tightly or narrowly-defined The pandemic lead them to focus on why they exist, and what they can with the tools available given that  purpose Partnership - they partnered with a major competitor, DIA, to create a world tour with 35 stops to showcase innovation around the world 6,000 people registered for the ITC & DIA World Tour They asked themselves, “if you're not there, how can you have a valuable experience still?” What is the responsibility of the insurer of the future? Prevention Today the attitude may be, ”let's try it even without the data yet,” versus traditional take of “show us the data” Carriers should be asking themselves, ”how do you work with startups?” This episode is brought to you by Medallia (Medallia.com), and the book series, "The Future of Insurance: From Disruption to Evolution" by Bryan Falchuk (future-of-insurance.com). Follow the podcast at future-of-insurance.com/podcast for more details and other episodes. Music courtesy of UPbeat Music, available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Google Play. Just search for "UPbeat Music".  

In this episode of Agents Influence podcast, host Jason Cass interviews Caribou Honig, General Partner at SemperVirens Venture Capital, Chairman, and Co-founder of InsureTech Connect. Caribou talks about what Venture Capital is all about and how InsureTech Connect was found. Episode Highlights: What has attributed to Caribou's success, skill or luck? (5:25) Caribou explains why it's significant to invest in Venture Capital at the early stage. (8:33) Caribou shares what characteristics a person must have to be a Venture Capitalist. (10:32) Caribou explains why pattern matching is beneficial. (12:11) Does Caribou think this year has been tougher for InsureTech startups than in previous years? (14:26) Caribou explains what Venture Capital is. (17:42) Caribou shares how InsureTech Connect started. (22:39) Does Caribou think that the lack of funding is the main reason that's limiting the agents from scaling and growing? (27:39) Caribou mentions that he's reading the book entitled Old Man's War, by John Scalzi. (33:44) Key Quotes: “Keeping an open mind around the online stores is very important. There's been a lot discussed and written about diversity and inclusion, particularly in the venture capital space. I think one of those things is making sure that we don't overfit pattern matching.” - Caribou Honig “I think that as long as you have that, success begets more success. At least that success begets more funding in hopes that there will be another iteration or to have additional success.” - Caribou Honig “I think we did the best we could in terms of some digital content and virtual content. But, I think we also all know that's not quite the same as gathering together seven or eight thousand people, right? To get the serendipity out of the bee!” - Caribou Honig Resources Mentioned: Caribou Honig LinkedIn SemperVirens Venture Capital InsureTech Connect Reach out to Jason Cass Agency Intelligence

This week the Mayor sat down with new friend, Caribou Honig, Venture Capitalist & Chairman and Cofounder of InsureTech Connect, a company that holds the world's largest insurtech ex inference in the world. It is also known as ITC. They provide a place for entrepreneurs, reinsurance companies, investors, and other members of our industry to comeTogether in one place and network. Caribou and Heath have an incredible conversation surrounding the insurance tech space and where the future lies. Episode SponsorsSmart Choice Canopy ConnectCoverdesk 

This episode features Caribou Honig, Co-Founder & Chair of InsureTech Connect Guest Bio Caribou Honig enjoys pursuing harebrained ideas and supporting the growth of new businesses.  He is Chairman & Cofounder of InsureTech Connect as well as cofounder of the HR Transform conference focused on the impact of technology on the workplace. Caribou serves as an independent board director with several startups and a general partner at SemperVirens, a VC firm focused on Future of Work investments.  He previously cofounded QED Investors, a boutique venture capital firm focused on data-driven companies.  Caribou and his wife live in Richmond, Virginia with their two occasionally annoying dogs. Highlights from the Show In 2015, he had a need for a conference that brought together investors, entrepreneurs and providers, and didn't see anything out there, so he decided to create it – this was the best idea he ever had In 2016 at the first ITC, he stepped back and looked at all the conversations going on that would not have happened without ITC, and knew the impact of his idea was huge Caribou made a series of predictions at the first ITC, some were right and some were wrong Wrong Parametric - was off on the scale of how much this would take off, and it's been more of a rounding error than something that would take over the industry, as he predicted High Speed & Degree of Geographic Expansion - most InsurTech startup winners haven't jumped borders as quickly as he thought they would (Lemonade is a rare exception), especially crossing oceans or continental borders Right Explosion of Activity - there has been a lot of entry and creation in the space Level of Interest & Willingness of Incumbents to Partner - has almost been surprising how incumbents have been open to being part of the supply chain for startups (e.g. by being the paper for a startup) and accepting startups as suppliers into the legacy space API-ification of Insurnace - saw it in the FinTech world, and saw no reason why it wouldn't be the same in the InsurTech world, and that's playing out Technology is really about removing friction from the system, and APIs can do this in a game changing way as a structural shift that can open up more market forces into an industry Will Big Tech takeover Insurance? There are two kinds of Big Tech - Tencent, Amazon, Google, Tesla - and Big FinTech Big Tech's movement into Insurance is slow, at best, at least a decade before it shows up to people Big FinTech is a clearer and more present danger to incumbent carriers Credit Karma, now part of Intuit, has a formidable number of client relationships, and has built out some interesting and slick capabilities in auto insurance Neo-banks like Revolut and Newbank, offering  some insurance products There's a big connection between the Financial Services and Insurance world outside the US, but not here, for some reason Connecting the data from the FinTech side can lead to better Insurance decisions, and then the marriage can make a lot of sense beyond just convenience of buying from a single place Embedded Insurance - all enabled by APIs, and the next major wave people are talking about, but there are more layers to this Soft-embedded - buying something and there's an extended warranty or insurance offer in the purchase flow that you opt into Hard-embedded - similar, but it's an opt-out, so if you do nothing, there will be a line item in your bill for it, which is better for situations where there could be adverse selection issues like in Group Benefits Invisible Insurance - just included without the option to opt in or out, like a warranty on a new car or a doctor's medical malpractice insurance where in neither case can you sign a waiver to not sue or expect free repairs for a lower price This episode is brought to you by Medallia (Medallia.com), and the book series, The Future of Insurance: From Disruption to Evolution, by Bryan Falchuk (future-of-insurance.com). Follow the podcast at future-of-insurance.com for more details and full show notes. Music courtesy of Upbeat Music, available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Google Play. Just search for "Upbeat Music".

Investor Caribou Honig is looking at opportunities in the “1099 economy” – legions of freelancers who are reshaping the traditional employment model. He co-founded the InsureTech Connect conference – so far a “go” again for an in-person show in Vegas this year – and has turned attention to supporting entrepreneurs who are “creating the future of work.” His boutique VC fund is focused on startups whose products are sold to or through the employer, including workplace tech, HealthTech, FinTech and InsureTech – anything related to how people work and live better lives. Caribou also reflects on insuretech trends and how some entrepreneurs have evolved their approaches for the insurance value chain. The post InsureTech Connect Leader Targets Future of Work appeared first on Insurance Journal TV.

On this episode of FNO: InsureTech we discuss insuretech in 2021. Our guests for this annual episode are no strangers to the insuretech space: Caribou Honig, Chairman & Co-Founder of InsureTech Connect, amongst other things; and Martha Notaras, Managing Partner at Brewer Lane Ventures. It’s been a year since we had both Martha and Caribou on the podcast together, and what a year it has been! Join Rob, Lee, and guests reunited, as they discuss: the changes that occurred in insuretech during 2021, supplies & demands of cash and addressable markets, advantages for insuretech vs. incumbents, predictions for insuretech in 2021 and the future; and more.

Caribou Honig talks to peopleHum about why should you align insurance with human resources. Listen to the entire episode to know more. If you like the podcast, please follow the channel, so we could keep producing more content like this!

It's Throwback Thursday here on ITG! We got to interview Caribou Honig when we were just get started as a podcast and wanted to make sure that everyone has had the chance to hear such a great interview!   Host James Benham is joined by The InsureTech Connect conference's Chairman & Co-Founder. This episode features a riveting discussion about the InsureTech Connect Conference, and the History and Disruption of Insurance! The InsureTech Geek Podcast is brought to you by JBKnowledge. Find us on social media! We're on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, or follow James on Twitter! Subscribe, rate, and comment. As always - Enjoy the Ride & Geek Out!  

This week I am delighted to welcome Jay Weintraub, the CEO and co-founder of InsureTech Connect. InsureTech Connect (ITC) is the world’s largest insurtech event. Every year since it's inception, ITC has taken place in Las Vegas. But this year, Jay and his team have had to completely rethink how create the same experience in a virtual environment. Jay and I speak about how he met his co-founder, Caribou Honig and how they set up the first ITC event; we also talk about the business of conferences and what it takes to create a successful event. Please enjoy.

In this Wharton Fintech Podcast, Miguel Armaza is joined by Caribou Honig, Chairman & Co-founder of InsurTech Connect, as well as Co-founder of the HR Transform Conference, focused on the impact of technology on the workplace. Caribou is also a legendary investor that sits on the board of several startups. He previously co-founded QED Investors, a VC firm focused on data-driven companies, was a top executive at Capital One, and is currently a partner at SemperVirens, a VC focused on the Future of Work. Caribou’s Insurtech Connect, the leading InsurTech conference, will be taking place September 21 – 23, bringing 200+ leaders to the virtual stage. Register and find more information at https://insuretechconnect.com/ Caribou Honig Caribou Honig enjoys pursuing harebrained ideas and supporting the creation of new businesses. He is Chairman & Cofounder of InsureTech Connect as well as cofounder of the HR Transform conference focused on the impact of technology on the workplace. Caribou is an independent board director with several startups and is a partner at SemperVirens, a VC firm focused on the Future of Work. He previously cofounded QED Investors, a boutique venture capital firm focused on data-driven companies. Caribou and his wife live in Richmond, Virginia with their two occasionally annoying dogs.

On this special episode of FNO: News, we talk with insurance and insuretech industry experts who weigh in on the recent Lemonade IPO. Hosts Rob and Lee talked with 8 experts/influencers from across the insurance and insuretech industries and asked: What does the Lemonade IPO mean for the insurance/insuretech ecosystem? Listen to this special FNO: News segment, Experts weigh in on the Lemonade IPO. Time stamps and guests: 4:06 - Dan Reed, Managing Director, American Family Ventures 10:34 - Assaf Wand, CEO & Co-Founder, Hippo Insurance 17:06 - Mark Breading, Partner, Strategy Meets Action 24:10 - Tim Attia, CEO & Co-Founder, Slice Labs 26:00 - Dan Moore, COO, QBE North America 35:12 - Caribou Honig, Chairman & Co-Founder, InsureTech Connect 44:45 - Jenn Byrne, President & CEO, Quesnay 52:54 - Rob Galbraith, Author & Insuretech Thought Leader #insuretech #insurtech #insurance #technology #innovation #inthenews #LemonadeIPO

On this episode of FNO: InsureTech we are joined by Caribou Honig, Chairman & Co-Founder; and Jay Weintraub, CEO & Co-Founder, of InsureTech Connect. The mission of InsureTech Connect (ITC) is to help catalyze the insurance industry. They do it by connecting the best people and the best ideas under one roof. But, what if there is no physical roof? With the current pandemic situation in the world, adaptations to a new normal has brought ITC to innovate their ability to connect and network the insurance industry. We had the opportunity to speak with Caribou and Jay to ask what’s happening with InsureTech Connect. Join Caribou, Jay, Rob, and Lee as they discuss: the current status of InsureTech Connect, ITC’s concept of “September to Remember”, the logistics of the new concept and creating a virtual event, the future of ITC beyond 2020, and more.

On this episode of FNO: InsureTech we are joined by Caribou Honig, Co-founder and Chairman at InsureTech Connect, and Martha Notaras, Managing Partner at Brewer Lane Ventures. What is the next normal? What happens afterwards? Co-hosts Rob and Lee discuss with Caribou and Martha the impact of COVID-19 on different aspects of the Insuretech ecosystem.

Today's guest is Caribou Honig, Chairman and co-founder of InsureTech Connect, one of the largest gatherings of insurance technology professionals in the world. Before he ventured into InsurTech, Caribou spent over a decade in the financial technology sector and witnessed the digital disruption-slash-transformation that occurred in the worlds of banking and finance. With his vast knowledge and understanding of the insurance and technology businesses, along with the finance and investments that power the current surge in InsurTech, Caribou brings loads of insights to the table. Not least of which, the revelation that playing gold is no longer a necessary part of winning in our industry.

Host Ron Glozman speaks with Caribou Honig, Chairman and Cofounder at HR Transform and InsureTech Connect and Cofounder of QED Investors. Caribou discusses how InsurTech will impact the insurance industry in 2020 and beyond, why InsurTech is good for insurance, and how insurance companies can embrace InsurTech within their organizations. Follow Chisel AI: website: www.chisel.ai LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/ChiselAI Twitter: twitter.com/chiselai Facebook:www.facebook.com/ChiselAI

On this episode of FNO: InsureTech we are joined by InsureTech Connect (ITC) Co-founders Caribou Honig & Jay Weintraub. With 2019 InsureTech Connect having come and gone, the ripples of September’s event are making waves in 2020 and beyond. Join Caribou, Jay, Rob, and Lee as we: look back on ITC’s structure and community. discuss how ITC has become a catalyst in the insuretech ecosystem. talk about the potential and opportunity of InsureTech Connect Asia. take a glimpse into the future of ITC 2020. To learn more about InsureTech Connect, visit https://insuretechconnect.com. • • • • • • • • • FNO: InsureTech Podcast interviews leaders from insuretech and insurance to get unique and intriguing perspectives on how technology is disrupting and transforming the industry. We bring stories, trends, and useful insights to our audience from carriers, insuretech companies, service providers, and various industry groups. New episodes each week. FNO: InsureTech Podcast is created, produced, and sponsored by Fourseventy Claim Management. Visit them at https://470claims.com. Visit us online at www.fnoinsuretech.com

In this episode of the Accenture Insurance Influencers podcast, InsureTech Connect’s Caribou Honig explains how to reduce the risk of trying something new, the importance of culture—and why failure and innovation go hand in hand. Tune into the Accenture #InsuranceInfluencers podcast.

¿Quieres conocer las últimas tendencias en Fintech e Insurtech? Te traemos una plática exclusiva con Caribou Honig, Presidente y Cofundador de HR Transform & InsureTech Connect, y uno de los exponentes más importantes del movimiento insurtech en el mundo, y que están predicando la adopción de la tecnología en industrias como la de los seguros. Después del gran cambio que startups como Nubank han provocado en la infustria financiera, ¿qué otras áreas están esperando para ser transformadas por nuevos modelos de negocio? Honig nos cuenta todo sobre las últimas tendencias en el insurtech, las grandes oportunidades de negocio que se están abriendo en el campo, al igual que el futuro de los seguros con la aparición de técnicas como los estudios genéticos y las nuevas regulaciones en el sector. ¡No te la pierdas!

In this episode of the Accenture Insurance Influencers podcast, InsureTech Connect’s Caribou Honig explains how insurtech is upending the customer experience; how data is enabling new risks, businesses and operating models—and why insurers should aspire to be dentists, not toothbrushes. Tune into the Accenture #InsuranceInfluencers podcast.

"No dejes de conocer quiénes son las startups que están cambiando al mundo de las finanzas y los seguros a través de la tecnología. En este nuevo episodio te traemos lo mejor durante nuestra visita al Finnosummit 2019, que en su más reciente edición juntó a lo mejor del ecosistema emprendedor en la capital mexicana. Desde unicornios como Nubank y Credijusto, hasta Creze y Cumplo, Finnosummit reunío a emprendedores de todo el mundo que saben que la industria fintech es en donde hay que poner el dinero. ¡No te pierdas todos los detalles y nuestras entrevistas exclusivas con miembros de Finnovista y de las startups que están dando de qué hablar en pleno 2019!Xponente fungió como orgulloso media partner en esta nueva edición del Finnosummit, y estuvimos muy emocionados al ir a conocer lo que está pasando con las finanzas digitales. Finnosummit 2019 también contó con la particiáción de expertos y speakers de primera como Caribou Honig, de HR Transform & InsureTech, y Demetrio Strimpópulos, de BanregioLABS.Por otra parte, la firma electrónica también se ha convertido en un negocio interesante para las empresas que den certidumbre y confianza a los diversos trámites que hacemos todos los días. Éste es el caso de ""Acertia"", una startup cuya propuesta de valor radica en proveer un servicio de firma electrónica eficiente y que asegure que tus documentos y procedimientos tendrán la validez legal que requiere tu negocio en México. Tuvimos una plática muy interesante con José Luis Ayala e Ignacio Mendívil, socios fundadores de Acertia y pioneros de la firma electrónica en en país. "

Host James is joined by Caribou Honig from InsureTech Connect. Learn about InsureTech Connect & the History & Disruption of Insurance. The InsurTech Geek Podcast is brought to you by ⁠JBKnowledge⁠. Find us on social media! We're on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠; or follow James on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!  Subscribe, rate, and comment. As always, Enjoy the Ride & Geek Out!

Host James Benham is joined by The InsureTech Connect conference's Chairman & Co-Founder. This episode features a riveting discussion about the InsureTech Connect Conference, the History of Insurance and the Disruption of Insurance!   The InsureTech Geek Podcast is brought to you by JBKnowledge. Find us on social media! We're on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, or follow James on Twitter! Subscribe, rate, and comment. As always - Enjoy the Ride & Geek Out!

Caribou Honig is the co-founder and chairman of InsureTech Connect. In this episode of the Accenture Insurance Influencers podcast, he looks at the state of the industry, how a harebrained scheme became go-to insurtech conference—and why it’s time for start-ups to prove themselves. Tune into the Accenture #InsuranceInfluencers podcast.

“Lyft is essentially an insurance company, that just happens to do rideshares.” - Caribou Honig (click to tweet) Ideas spread through a community. And for many of us siloed in our desk jobs, this phenomenon may be absent in our lives. That’s where the role of conferences come into play. By gathering groups of people within any given industry—ideas are able to bounce between minds, and creativity is sparked. However, this isn’t the case for every conference. Many are filled with long lectures, boring keynote speakers, and stale meet & greets. Not InsureTech Connect. On today’s episode of FNO: InsureTech—we are joined by Jay Weintraub & Caribou Honig—co-founders of InsureTech Connect—the world’s largest insurtech event — offering unparalleled access to the largest and most comprehensive gathering of tech entrepreneurs, investors and insurance industry incumbents from across the globe. Tune in to this episode to hear Jay and Caribou’s insights, so you can understand the insuretech space from a conference-driven point-of-view. You can learn more about InsureTech here “Insuretech as a movement has been a whole new way to draw a generation to this industry.” - Jay Weintraub (click to tweet) The FNO: Tips When building a business, bring the investors together with the regulators Rather than telling, approach people-centric business as being a mirror for the customer There is a rising school of thought that insurance will shift to be embedded inside offerings (ex: Lyft) Create context to open the pathways for information-spreading Lennar Residential Homes is the largest residential builder in the United States Fear of disruption pushes the human instinct to do better   Fourseventy Claim Management www.470claims.com

Caribou Honig is the Chairman and Cofounder of InsureTech Connect, a company that holds the world’s largest insurtech event annually. They provide a place for entrepreneurs, investors, and other members of the insurance industry to gather and network. Caribou obtained his BA in Physics and Philosophy from Harvard University, his MBA from the University of Virginia - Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, and his JD, LAW from the University of Virginia School of Law. Today, Caribou discusses the concept behind InsureTech Connect. He shares how he came to found the company and why he wanted to have an annual event for members of the industry. He describes his life before becoming an entrepreneur, his drive for higher education, and some of the lessons he’s learned in running an investment company. Caribou also shares advice to those who are interested in joining the insurance industry and explains what you can expect by attending InsurTech Connect 2019. “For the most part, people are generally judged by the track record of their successes, not so much their parallel track record of failures.” - Caribou Honig Today on Spot On Insurance: How Caribou Honig began his career in the insurance industry. The funny story behind the name "Caribou." His many academic pursuits and where his passion for learning started. The challenges he's faced in his career and how he overcame them. The lessons he learned from the mistakes he made in the venture capital world. His criteria when it comes to investing in startups. What are "elegant businesses" and how you can find them. The story behind InsurTech Connect and the goal of creating the event. What to expect from InsurTech Connect 2019. His advice to newcomers in the industry. Key Takeaways: Sometimes you have to commit to the universe that it's time to move on and the universe will look out for you. Focus on getting business done, so you can go back to living your life outside of work. Connect with Caribou Honig: InsureTech Connect InsureTech Connect 2019 LinkedIn This episode was brought to you by….. Insurance Licensing Services of America (ILSA), America’s Premier Insurance Compliance and Licensing experts. To learn more about ILSA and their services, visit ILSAinc.com. Connect, Learn, Share Thank you for joining us on this week’s episode of Spot On Insurance. For more resources and episodes, visit SpotOnInsurance.com. Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Love what you’re learning, Spot Light your review on iTunes and share your favorite episodes with friends and colleagues!

In our latest podcast, Christian Rolon (WG '19) is joined by Frank Rotman, one of the founding partners of QED Investors. QED Investors invests in early-stage Fintech companies based in the US, UK, and Latin America. Based in Virginia, QED was founded in 2008 by Rotman, Caribou Honig, and Nigel Morris (co-founder of Capital One). QED Investors has invested in Avant, AvidXchange, ClearScore, Credit Karma, Nubank, Remitly, and SoFi. Their exits include Braintree, Klarna, and Orchard. Frank Rotman is a founding partner of QED Investors. Frank's portfolio companies include Avant, Credit Karma, GreenSky, LendUp, Prosper and SoFi. Frank publishes his thoughts on Fintech on his personal blog Confessions of a Fintech Junkie. Frank began his career at Capital One as one of its earliest analysts. At Capital One, Frank spanned a number of roles across subprime and upmarket cards, focusing on managing Capital One's credit exposure and expanding new business lines. After leaving Capital One, Frank created a Student Lending company. Frank received his BS in Applied Mathematics and his MS in Systems Engineering, both from the University of Virginia.

“Claims is one of the ripe areas (particularly in the short and medium term) for application of technologies.” - Caribou Honig (click to tweet) There are distinct categories in the world of insurance. You have the incumbent carriers, the giant Googles and Amazons, and then the niche insuretechs like Hover and Lemonade. How these three species of company interact with each other is the dance we are witnessing today. That’s why on today’s episode of the FNO: InsureTech, we are joined by the godfather of insuretech, Caribou Honig. Caribou is one of the cofounders of the prominent conference InsureTech Connect, and brings his expertise of all things related to insuretech—from theorizing about Amazon’s most recent purchase of Ring to understanding how drones have impacted the claims paradigm. Tune in to this episode to hear Caribou’s perspective, so you can more accurately view the world of insuretech. “In the battle between the incumbents and the tech titans, watch what happens to the insuretechs. They may be what tips the scale in one favor or the other.” - Caribou Honig (click to tweet) The FNO: Tips Attend conferences where business gets done rather than just intellectual enjoyment Look at cloud computing, APIs, drones, and augmented reality as examples of technology infiltrating insurance An API enables the user to have both best-in-class and integrative options Look at the app Tomorrow as an example of a fintech-insuretech hybrid Many non-insurance companies want to be in the supply chain to serve insurance providers Keep an eye on the big moves Google, Amazon, and Apple are making to understand how they’re approaching the insurance industry Understand that carriers themselves want to adopt new technology faster they are Build muscles for both risk management and risk-taking   Fourseventy Claim Management www.470claims.com

Why are InsurTech companies any different than other businesses? It’s hard for any business to make a profit in the first two or three years. That is just one topic that Caribou Honig, the Chairman and Cofounder of HR Transform & InsureTech Connect and Cofounder of boutique VC firm QED Investors and I discuss. It’s time to quit […] The post When Do InsurTech Companies Start to Make a Profit? appeared first on .

Why are InsurTech companies any different than other businesses? It’s hard for any business to make a profit in the first two or three years. That is just one topic that Caribou Honig, the Chairman and Cofounder of HR Transform & InsureTech Connect and Cofounder of boutique VC firm QED Investors and I discuss. It’s time to quit […] The post When Do InsurTech Companies Start to Make a Profit? appeared first on .

This week, Nigel’s fresh off the back of InsureTech Connect in Las Vegas – the largest gathering of the insurance technology world on the planet! This year, attendance jumped to 3,800 - congratulations, guys, we look forward to next time. While there, Nigel caught up with Darin Reffitt, Vice President of Marketing at Splice Software, which combines art and science to create stronger customer connections. Nigel and Darin explore the rise of voice and speech-to-speech technologies and emotionally relevant customer messages. Next up, Nigel meets Quentin Colmant, co-Founder of Qover, providing real-time insurance via open APIs. We hear how their solution allows customers to start selling insurance in five minutes. Nigel also talks to Tim Hardcastle, CEO of Instanda, a platform for insurance providers to improve product delivery. Tim talks about the lessons he’s learnt, through the dotcom boom to starting Instanda in 2012, and how the established insurers are responding to insurtech start-ups. Plus, is insurance really no different from any other consumer market? We hear from Chris Cheatham, founder and CEO of Risk Genius, whose mission is to organise the world’s insurance policy information. Chris tells us why the insurance world doesn’t really know what’s in its insurance policies and how Risk Genius is tackling the problem. And finally, Nigel sits down with Caribou Honig, Chairman and cofounder of InsureTech Connect, and cofounder of QED Investors. Caribou explains why right now might just be the most exciting time to be in insurtech. We also ask: how can incumbents evolve and is the centre ground of insurtech shifting between Europe and the US? Enjoying InsurTech Insider? Tell a friend about us, get in touch at podcasts@11fs.com or on Twitter @InstechInsiders, and please leave us a review on iTunes. Special Guests: Caribou Honig, Chris Cheatham, Darin Reffitt, Nigel Walsh, Quentin Colmant, and Tim Hardcastle.

This week, Nigel’s fresh off the back of InsureTech Connect in Las Vegas – the largest gathering of the insurance technology world on the planet! This year, attendance jumped to 3,800 - congratulations, guys, we look forward to next time. While there, Nigel caught up with Darin Reffitt, Vice President of Marketing at Splice Software, which combines art and science to create stronger customer connections. Nigel and Darin explore the rise of voice and speech-to-speech technologies and emotionally relevant customer messages. Next up, Nigel meets Quentin Colmant, co-Founder of Qover, providing real-time insurance via open APIs. We hear how their solution allows customers to start selling insurance in five minutes. Nigel also talks to Tim Hardcastle, CEO of Instanda, a platform for insurance providers to improve product delivery. Tim talks about the lessons he’s learnt, through the dotcom boom to starting Instanda in 2012, and how the established insurers are responding to insurtech start-ups. Plus, is insurance really no different from any other consumer market? We hear from Chris Cheatham, founder and CEO of Risk Genius, whose mission is to organise the world’s insurance policy information. Chris tells us why the insurance world doesn’t really know what’s in its insurance policies and how Risk Genius is tackling the problem. And finally, Nigel sits down with Caribou Honig, Chairman and cofounder of InsureTech Connect, and cofounder of QED Investors. Caribou explains why right now might just be the most exciting time to be in insurtech. We also ask: how can incumbents evolve and is the centre ground of insurtech shifting between Europe and the US? Enjoying InsurTech Insider? Tell a friend about us, get in touch at podcasts@11fs.com or on Twitter @InstechInsiders, and please leave us a review on iTunes.

Today we have our first-ever episode on Insure-tech. Happily, it also turned out to be one of the most fun, funny and thought-provoking shows we've ever done. I'm pretty sure it's the first one where we've talked about the internet of things, and CRISPR gene research, transportation as a service, and drones. My fascinating guest is Caribou Honig, founding partner of QED Investors. QED is a venture fund cofounded by Caribou, Frank Rotman, and Nigel Morris, who first came together in the early days of Capital One. They have helped launch some great fintech companies - for instance LendUp and DriveFactor. Caribou's investments span an array of marketing, payments, and insurance technology companies, particularly where B2C customer acquisition drives the business success. He developed a passion for data-driven marketing when he led key marketing initiatives at Capital One, including responsibility for a $50 mm marketing budget, managing a 200-person underwriting operation, and cracking the code on digital credit card originations. Recent investments led by Caribou include, Remitly, TheMuse, and KNIP.  He also serves on the Advisory Council for the CFSI Financial Solutions Lab. As you'll hear in our conversation, moreover, he's a Renaissance man. He holds a bachelor's degree in Physics and Philosophy from Harvard University, an MBA from the Darden School of Business, and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. He and his wife have two children and, what he describes as two occasionally annoying dogs. Over the years He's taken time off to be Mr. Mom and to listen to the universe, as he puts it. And of course, he has an interesting name, which he'll explain in our discussion. I reached out to Caribou because I knew he was working in Insure-Tech, which has been on a slower track than other kinds of fintech but is starting to gain real traction. Caribou is Chairman of the InsureTech Connect, a new conference that's scheduled for October 5-6 in Las Vegas. I found our conversation incredibly interesting, especially in how insurance is being transformed by types of technology that have nothing to do with finance -- because its product is usually about managing risks in the physical world ranging from health to roofing materials to self-driving cars. As it turned out, about half of our talk is on insurance, and half is on his broader thoughts oninnovation, and also on regulation. He really sparked my own thinking on some of the tough regulatory issues, like how to resolve the conflicts between alternative data and fair lending disparate impact, and the pros and cons of state-based regulation, and his advice to regulators. Plus I'm stilling thinking about "parametric insurance" - skipping the adjudication process and agreeing in advance to let outside parameters - big data - determine the appropriate claim. New ideas, everywhere! Finally, for all you innovators in the audience, note that Caribou shares an open invitation to bring him interesting ideas.  I know you'll enjoy hearing him.   Vote for my SXSW Panel! Also, remember to vote to help get my Regulation Innovation panel selected for SXSW 2017 - it's at http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/67829. My panelists will be Simple's Josh Reich, Adrienne Harris of the White House, and CFSI's CEO, Jennifer Tescher. We need your vote - voting is only open to  September 2. And please plan to come to SX in Austin.   Support Barefoot Innovation! Don't forget to send in your buck-a-show to support Barefoot Innovation -- and leave a review on ITunes. Support the Podcast Upcoming Shows Finally, come back next time. We have fantastic guests coming up, including Lauren Saunders of the National Consumer Law Center, Sam Hodges of Funding Circle, Colin Walsh of Varo, and Harvard professor Brigitte Madrian. See you soon!   Subscribe Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. Email Address Sign Up We respect your privacy. Thank you!

Barefoot Innovation has been in hiatus in recent weeks because my father passed away. I was in San Francisco and got a call saying he was suddenly ill and might not live through the day. I rushed for a redeye and flew all night home to Boston, where my son Matt met me and we drove to Harford in the wee hours. My brother and sister had rushed to our Dad too, and he had held on. In fact he began to do better, regaling us with stories in the ICU, bringing his sharp engineering mind to analyzing his medical situation, and enjoying us singing to him (we’re a singing family). We had hopes he would recover, but a few days later, he worsened and ultimately did not pull through. He was 95 years old. His name was Glidden Sweet Doman. And he was a remarkable innovator. He’s being widely remembered as the last of the great helicopter pioneers, and he was also an important inventor in wind energy. Those two industries share the same technology – the wickedly complex science of rotor dynamics. This very special episode of Barefoot Innovation is a conversation I recorded with him last Thanksgiving but had not yet posted. I got the idea of doing this podcast after watching a video of a talk he’d recently given at the New England Air Museum, which has two of his Doman Helicopters on permanent display. Listening to his lecture, I kept noticing parallels with the themes we discuss on Barefoot Innovation. It occurred to me that it would be fun to do a show inviting insights from someone who, nearly a century ago, began innovating in a field that’s very different from finance, but that was being similarly transformed by new, fast-changing technology. Glid Doman was born in the village of Elbridge, New York, in 1921. His father, Albert Doman, brought electricity to that part of the state in 1890 (you can still see historic sites related to it), and was an inventor of the electric starter and electric windshield wiper. My Dad’s uncle, Lewis Doman, invented the player piano. His half-brother Carl Doman pioneered both aircraft and automobile engines and became a senior executive at Ford. His half-sister Ruth Chamberlain was the first woman architect in the region. My family is loaded with the genes for invention and entrepreneurship. For my Dad as a boy, the most exciting field of invention was aviation. Airplanes were barnstorming farm fields. Airlines did not yet exist. And my Dad, who avidly read Popular Mechanics, built an airplane in his back yard (you’ll hear in the podcast whether he ever made it fly). Aviation was the new technology then, the way digitization and mobile phones and blockchains are the tech frontiers today -- or genetics or robotics or 3D printing. Aviation was full of novel engineering challenges that were not yet understood. Flight was also inspiring bold predictions about how our lives were going to change, some of which were hilariously wrong – a good lesson for people like me who like to try to forecast tech impacts. For instance, in clearing out our parents’ attic in recent days, my siblings and I found a magazine cover story advising on women’s fashion for the coming trend of traveling by helicopter. This little podcast touches only a tiny fragment of what made my Dad fascinating, and has nothing on his great life partner, our late mother, Joan Hamilton Doman. They met because she was the only woman in the 50-person University of Michigan flying club in World War II – and she was its top pilot. They had an amazing six decades or so, built around family and his work. He knew all the aviation greats from Igor Sikorsky to Charles Lindberg. He was featured on aviation magazine covers and traveled throughout the world. He was enlisted by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to help design a “space sail” to rendezvous with Haley’s Comet (ultimately not deployed). He’s been honored by his alma mater, the University of Michigan aeronautical engineering school. And when his helicopter company didn’t reach scale, he pivoted to wind energy and invented a superior rotor design for wind turbines, using the same insights he’d developed working with helicopters. He led the design of two colossal experimental turbines funded by the Departments of Energy and Interior and installed in Wyoming. When he “retired” at age 65, he and my mother moved to Rome where he led international engineering teams in designing huge turbines in Europe. And then, in his 80’s, he started a new wind energy venture of his own.  Right up to his death, he continued to be engaged with an affiliated firm, Seawind Technology, which is actively working to deploy his “Gamma” rotor designs on offshore wind turbines in Europe and other parts of the world. Decades before computers could model the movements of rotor blades, my Dad used a combination of intuition, math, physics and relentless measurement to understand, correctly, the movement of spinning blades. For both helicopters and wind turbines, my Dad created massively simplified rotor designs and drastically reduced the stress on the blades as they rotate. This captures huge efficiency gains and virtually eliminates blade failure, the bane of most rotor systems. As he explains in our talk, one key to this was to realize that the commonly-used three-bladed rotor design is inherently unstable.  Wind turbines, he argued, should have two blades and helicopters – because they have to fly forward – need four. Our conversation elicited a lot of my Dad’s thoughts about how to work with young, little-understood technology, as both an engineer and entrepreneur. While we didn’t cover all the ground I’d hoped to, you’ll hear him imparting Lean Startup-type wisdom. As a young engineer, for instance, he used a jackknife to cut open the balsa wood of a Sikorsky rotor blade to install measurement gauges on it and figure out what it was doing. He bought a postwar helicopter body for a dollar. He got hold of a Chevrolet clutch to use in his helicopter engine. His team invented do-it-yourself wind tunnels. It’s an MVP approach – a minimum viable product – in which they methodically identified, isolated, and intensively tested issues and reaped what today we call “rapid learning” and “fail-fast” lessons. As they figured out answers, they quickly pivoted, trying to succeed in an industry where, unlike today’s fintech, entrepreneurs needed huge amounts of capital. (In our recording, he talks about how easily his enterprise raised money, but that pattern did not hold over the decades.) Our conversation only touches on a few of these lessons (and nothing about the wind business), but shining through it is his defining trait, the one that made him most successful, which was unbounded and insatiable curiosity. Mainly, this episode shares his secret to being an innovator – and to having a wonderful career. His advice:  find organizations that have a lot of interesting problems, and go there and figure out how to solve them. For those intrigued with the technology history of the twentieth century, I’m attaching early chapters of a biography that my brother, Steve Doman – also an aeronautical engineer -- is writing about our father’s journey. Here, also, is an overview and short video on Doman Helicopters created by my sister, Terry Gibbon (she too is an entrepreneur, with her own video company).  And here is a short video of one of the wind turbines. To prepare this episode, I re-listened to the recording just a few weeks after his passing. One thing I notice is that, as we had this conversation after our Thanksgiving dinner last fall, my Dad’s comments kept making me laugh. Whenever he said goodbye to people, he always added the advice, “keep smiling.”  Words to live by. Let me share two updates about me and the show. First, I’ve become involved in a very significant project aimed at helping prepare our U.S. financial regulatory framework for the challenges raised by innovation. I’m going to stay in my Harvard fellowship for a second year, still writing my book on innovation and regulation, but will also be devoting much of my time to this initiative, which I’ll tell you more about as it develops. One result of the new project is that I’ve decided to suspend the Regulation Innovation video series we launched earlier this year. I expect to reactivate it when I have time to create the videos.  Meanwhile, they are still available, still for free, at www.RegulationInnovation.com. Please do check them out. As I said when we started the series, I think the articles that accompany these videos might be the most important writing I’ve ever done. Second, we will soon be back from the Barefoot Innovation hiatus, and what a line up we have!  We’ll have CFPB Director Richard Cordray; Digital Asset Holdings’ Blythe Masters; National Consumer Law Center’s Lauren Saunders; the prize-winning founders of Bee, Vinay Patel and Max Gasner; Harvard professor and behavioral economics scholar Brigitte Madrian; Funding Circle’s U.S. CEO Sam Hodges; QED Investors co-founder and venture capital wise man Caribou Honig, and the chief compliance officers of both Citi and Wells Fargo, Kathryn Reimann and Yvette Hollingsworth Clark, together.  And those are the ones we’ve already recorded! We have many more exciting people in the scheduling queue. This is why we ask you to send in “a buck a show” – the show has turned into a major enterprise, just because we have so many fascinating people to talk with. We’ll try to speed up production as best we can, I’ll look forward to your continued feedback. 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This episode is another in an ongoing series on this show where we talk to some of the leading investors in the financial technology space. This week’s guest provides an interesting perspective we haven’t really heard from yet — Kevin Bhatt is a partner at Long Ridge Equity Partners. He and his firm are growth stage investors — typically coming in a bit later in a company’s growth cycle than some of our other guests on the Tradestreaming Podcast: guys like Phin Upham of Thiel Capital, Caribou Honig of QED, Charles Moldow of Foundation Capita and Canaan’s Dan Ciporin . Those guys are frequently the first institutional capital into a young company while Kevin’s firm comes in after a company has a product in the market and is generating millions of dollars of revenue. I think you’ll find our conversation interesting as we talk about investment opportunities in financial services that you probably haven’t thought of. Kevin’s an astute analyst of the financial services ecosystem with a long term view on organic themes and changes in the industry. We talk about some of his investment themes, discuss some of the investments he’s made and where he’s looking to deploy more capital. You can get this episode and over 120 episodes in our archive on our website, www.Tradestreaming.com. We’re also available on iTunes and SoundCloud. If you head on over to our website, make sure you sign up for our daily and/or weekly newsletter. It’s a go-to resource for thousands of financial professionals to identify and understand the impact technology is having on the business of money. Here’s my interview with Kevin...

We’ve explored various themes on investing in financial technology on this show. We’ve interviewed Caribou Honig at QED Investors. We’ve also spoken to to Foundation Capital’s Charles Moldow. If you were to put together an all-star team of fintech investors, you’d also want to include Dan Ciporin from Canaan Partners. He was the first institutional investor in Lending Club and has a portfolio that includes CircleUp, Orchard, borro, and direct match. You can see the marketplace finance and marketplace lending theme played out in his investments. Dan joins us on this week’s episode of the Tradestreaming Podcast. We talk about a variety of different things: first and foremost, we talk about his investments, why he made them, and what he’s looking at investing in in the future. We talk about his background — how being the CEO of Shopping.com and selling it to eBay and his previous experience at MasterCard influenced his perspective on consumer credit and its investability. It’s a great episode and glad you’ve joined us. Now, here’s our interview with Dan Ciporin of Canaan Partners.

We’ve spent the past couple of weeks of this show talking to leading early-stage investors in financial technologies -- guys like Charles Moldow of Foundation Capital and Caribou Honig of QED Investors. These are the same guys that have invested in some of the biggest names in the financial technology space. Companies like Lending Club, Credit Karma, Motif Investing, OnDeck Capital, Prosper, and Zopa. What makes many of these companies different from their incumbent competitors is that they’re bringing technology solutions to financial problems. That’s not to say incumbent financial institutions don’t use technology -- they certainly do, a whole lot of it. It’s just that this generation of fintech company is exactly that fin - tech -- they’re technology companies at their core and their solutions to financial problems -- whether lending to people without credit history or remitting money more cheaply and quicker across global banking borders -- they’re technological in nature. Some of the most interesting things we’ll see in the future is machine learning applied to the stock market. We know human beings’ biases when it comes to investing and even the world’s best investors fall prey to our own shortcomings, our own humanity. It’s entirely possible machines can do it better. Our next guest, Richard Craib, is working on a machine learning solution to the stock market much in the same way Netflix turned to top external algorithm developers to improve its own recommendation engine -- by offering prizes. Richard’s company, Numerai is an amazingly ambitious undertaking. He’s offering top investing systems developers cash prizes in return for using his firm’s encrypted data set to build alpha-producing strategies. Sitting on top of it all is Numerai with its own big data solution that’s investing its own nostro account, trying to optimize allocating capital between strategies. It’s a black box of black boxes but crowdsourced from some of the world’s smartest data scientists. As I talked with Richard, I kept thinking to myself -- What does this spell for the future of investing? People like Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch -- two of my favorite all-time investors -- seem so, so...antiquated when you start thinking about AI’s potential to participate in investing. Will future episodes on CNBC profile -- not today’s celebrity cowboy stock picker -- but tomorrow’s PhD touting data scientist who builds software for a living? Interesting. You can get this episode and over 120 episodes from the archives on our website, Tradestreaming.com. While you’re there, make sure to sign up for our weekly fintech newsletter that thousands of professionals read every week to stay on top of the business of finance. We’re also available on iTunes and SoundCloud.

Last week, we had Caribou Honig of QED Investors on the podcast and I said that his portfolio is one of the strongest in fintech. If I had to name the top investors in the next generation of finance companies, Charles Moldow of Foundation Capital  would definitely be near the top of the list, as well. Charles joins us this week on the Tradestreaming Podcast to talk about his thesis behind why he likes to invest in a trillion dollar industry that, in his words, “doesn’t do a great job servicing its customer base”. His white paper, A Trillion Dollar Market By the People, For the People is essential reading for anyone who wants to know about the marketplace lending space: its size, structure, and potential. We’ll include a link in the show notes to it. His current portfolio includes auxmoney, BTCJam, Finxera (formerly Bancbox), LendingClub [IPO 12/11/14], Lending Home, Motif Investing, and On Deck Capital [IPO 12/17/14] I think you’ll find my conversation with Charles to be thought-provoking -- pay attention to why he prefers to build standalone B2C finance companies as opposed to firms that partner and sell into incumbent financial institutions. Contrarian and a very interesting point. You can find this episode and all the years of our archives on our website, www.tradestreaming.com ***Thanks for joining us on the Tradestreaming Podcast. If you're listening to this episode on iTunes, please give it a ranking and rating so that others know of the value you're finding in it. Thank you ahead of time.****

Our guest for this episode is Caribou Honig, a founding partner of QED Investors. QED has quietly become one of the top investors in the financial technology space -- their investment portfolio includes early big successes like SoFi and Prosper and also firms like LendUp, borro, Orchard, Avant Credit, blooom, and ApplePie Capital. As part of our conversation, Caribou shares his personal path to how he ended up as part of the founding team of QED after a post-MBA career at Capital One where he developed a passion for data-driven marketing,, including responsibility for a $50 mm marketing budget, management of a 200 person underwriting operation, and cracking the code on digital credit card origination. This experience, along with his co-founders which include the founder of Capital One, provides a differentiator for the investment firm when it comes to deal flow and portfolio building. Caribou shares his views on trends in the fintech space, how incumbent financial institutions view startups in the space and how they’re planning for their futures, and we drill down into his portfolio to discuss his holdings and the investment thesis behind them. Lastly, we’ll talk about where Caribou is looking to make investments in the future. You can find this episode and 4 years of our archives on our website, www.tradestreaming.com ***Thanks for joining us on the Tradestreaming Podcast. If you're listening to this episode on iTunes, please give it a ranking and rating so that others know of the value you're finding in it. Thank you ahead of time.****