I also find them really good company – they are fun, smart infectiously enthusiastic and are always brimming with new ideas. Every time I have a meeting with them I come away with something new to think about. Listen on and you will too.

The Insurtech Gateway has been a pioneer in the insurtech space, providing early stage investment as well as licences, insurance knowledge and industry support and connections to entrepreneurs trying to put innovative insurance ideas into practice.

It’s just come through an important milestone. Its inaugural fund is maturing and it second fund has now been raised.

In a cooling tech investment climate this as clear a validation of the Gateway’s business model as you’ll need.

My conversation with director and co-founder Stephen Brittain (bottom right) and CEO Richard Chattock (top right) is valuable because it brings together everything the Gateway has learned from the cutting edge of insurance investment from the past six years.

None of this is theoretical – this is all hard-won experience earned by the risking of real capital in the real world with real people.

We examine what has worked and what hasn’t and look at the emerging trends that are going to drive the successful insurtechs of the future.

Richard and Stephen make a great pairing. Stephen has been on the podcast many times before but Richard hasn’t.

Yet it is Richard who will be familiar to many listeners as he is an insurance lifer with a high profile and long and successful underwriting career who has made the move to venture capitalism. Meanwhile Stephen is an outside innovator looking inwards to insurance.

This is an excellent combination and makes for a really relaxed, highly enjoyable and insightful listen.

I’m pretty sure you’ll find it both inspiring and useful.

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