InsurTech Business Series

Nonso Opurum is the Founder and CEO of Nigerian InsurTech startup SOSO Care who are providing Nigerians with access to quality healthcare by leveraging micro health insurance and alternative premium financing options like collecting Recyclables.

Their aim is to get more Nigerians insured especially those in the low-income bracket and are looking for partners to help them grow.

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In today’s episode, we are joined by two women pushing, reshaping microinsurance in Ghana and Kenya.

Leona Abban (Country Manager, MicroEnsure Ghana) & Wairimu Njoki (Country Manager, MicroEnsure Kenya) shared with us their experience, the regulatory landscape in their countries and strategies they are employing in order to scale simple and affordable insurance products.

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In this episode, we sat with Simon Schwall, a micro-insurance specialist and Founder of OKO; an insurtech company leveraging mobile technology & Satelite data to offer simple and affordable Crop Insurance to small-scale farmers in Africa.

OKO is based currently operating in Mali and Uganda and is looking to expand across Africa starting with Cote D'Ivoire.

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Having played in the microinsurance space in Africa for almost two decades, Richard Leftley is an authority on the topic. In our episode today, we ask him about the challenges so far, opportunities that still abound through innovation and technology and what models he has tried and which one has worked.

Richard is Executive Vice President, Micro Insurance Company which was formally MicroEnsure.

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Milad is a Business Consultant and is currently on a journey with Penni.io to revolutionize insurance distribution through embedded insurance.

Penni.io is on a mission to make insurance easier to understand and more accessible to everyone.

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In recent months, Blockchain has become come under the spotlight and different use cases have been discussed including insurance.

On Episode 25, we were privileged to chat with Africa's Blockchain Evangelist and one of LinkedIn's top voices, Shadrack Kubyane.

He is the Co-Founder of Coronet Blockchain and he spoke to us practically about blockchain and the role it can play in building trust, ensuring data privacy and curbing claims fraud.

He also sheds light on the new African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) which took effect from January 1, 2021.

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We cap the first year of IBS with a conversation with Elias Omondi who is the Innovation Lead at IRA of Kenya. He shared openly with us the focus of the regulator, how they are fostering innovation in the industry and why they are supporting insurtechs with Bima Regulatory Sandbox as well as Bima Lab.

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On this episode we take a trip down to Sydney, Australia to chat with Naby Mariyam who is the Founder/CEO of Coverhero. Coverhero's mission is to deliver relevant, hyper-personalised coverage in moments that matter to their customers. At the moment they are focused on providing protection to Gig Economy workers and we were super interested in hearing all about that. Naby also share with us her experience as a woman in the industry and what the future holds for her company.

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On this Episode we sit with Saurabh Sharma who is the General Manager, Microinsurance at one of the biggest insurers in East Africa, Britam. He shares with us his thoughts on how best we can scale insurance on the continent, how Britam is going about that by leveraging ecosystem partnerships & technology and also their journey to profitability.

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