Jean-Charles Velge is the Co-Founder of the Belgian Insurtech startup Qover. which just raised $25 million in its Series B funding round. Before founding Qover together with Quentin Colmant in 2016, Jean-Charles acted as a Vice President at private equity firm Redhorse and worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.

For our fourth episode he discussed the following topics with us:

➡️ What are the two business models of Qover? 

➡️ What problems does Qover address and how does Qover create pan-European insurance solutions?

➡️ What role does VC funding play in accelerating the embedded insurance market?

➡️ The market participants of embedded insurance: where do you see the lines blur between competition and cooperation?

➡️ What are the advantages of the MGA versus the full-stack model?

➡️ What would you do if you were the CEO of AXA or Allianz or what would your advice be to someone who is?

➡️ If you were to start Qover today, knowing what you know now and the market being what it is today, would you do it again and how would that look like?

➡️ What can we expect from Qover in the next few months?

➡️ Where do you see the market in the long run?