The Vine Resources Podcast Show

Slice Labs is a leading on-demand insurance cloud platform provider that empowers insurers to deliver new value to customers through direct insurance or insurance agent models without investing in infrastructure to provide customized on-demand, pay-as-you-go insurance products. The Slice Insurance Cloud Services platform (ICS) is powered by machine learning and advanced big data technologies along with Ph.D. behavioral science expertise. ICS is the foundation for new digital insurance products being released globally by top insurers and is also the base for Slice’s own digital insurance products serving the new economy.

We met the co-Founder and CEO of this company, Tim Attia, who shared some different insights.

11:FS is a challenger consultancy that builds and launches next generation digital propositions for some of the biggest banks in the world.

They have an incredible team made up of high flyers from across the FinTech and banking scene united by the belief that digital banking is 1% done and that digital reform is needed to improve systems and services for banks and their customers. As a result they can build new digital banks and banking products, and deliver benchmarking, research, and consultancy for banks, insurers, governments, regulators and startups around the world.

They are also the hosts of multiple podcasts including FinTech Insider, a bi-weekly show about all things FinTech and financial services, which is downloaded in over 100 countries every week and is one of the top business podcasts on iTunes; Blockchain Insider, a dedicated podcast specialising in all things blockchain, ledger technology and cryptocurrencies; InsurTech Insider, the latest news, insights and trends in the InsurTech industry and Connection Interrupted, a brand new interview show highlighting individuals or groups whose lives have been changed by technology.

We had the pleasure to talk to David Brear, the CEO of 11:FS. Enjoy.

Rob is a leading UK expert on business travel, frequent flyer / air miles, Avios, upscale hotels and hotel loyalty schemes, loyalty credit cards, first class and business class flying and travel and retail loyalty programmes. He won 'Editor of the Year' at the 2017 Business Travel Journalism Awards. His co-writer, Anika Newjoto, won 'Best Newcomer to Business Travel Journalism' and the site also won 'Best Digital Strategy'. Rob was nominated for a further three Business Travel Journalism Awards in 2018. Rob's TV and media appearances include ‘Rip-Off Britain’ for BBC1, ’Talking Business’ for BBC World News, Radio 4’s ‘Inside The World Of The Frequent Flyer’ documentary, The Economist, CNBC, BBC Radio 4's 'You and Yours'​, LBC radio, Management Today, cnn.com, The Sunday Times, Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, Daily Express and Wired. He currently has over 1 million Avios points, 1 million Virgin Flying Club miles and over 6 million airline, hotel and credit card points in total. He has redeemed many millions more, flying himself, friends and family around the world in style. Rob is an ex-Partner and board member at a major City private equity and venture capital group, and he remains a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. On a good day, Head for Points is ranked by Alexa as one of the 650 most visited websites in the UK. It generates over 1.6 million page views each month from over 375,000 unique visitors - 80% from the UK. This demographic (high income London-centric business travellers and SME owners) has proven attractive to upmarket advertisers and sponsors. The site is the UK’s biggest seller of premium credit cards. Rob also acts as a consultant to the loyalty industry, focusing on the development of reward schemes which are attractive to consumers whilst cost effective for the sponsor. Contact rob [at] headforpoints.co.uk with any media / PR / advertising / NED or just general frequent flyer enquiries.

Groundspeed provides automation and analytics services to commercial insurers, brokers and TPAs. Groundspeed unlocks the value trapped in unstructured P&C files like loss runs, exposure schedules, and policies using the power of AI and machine learning.

They are a fast growing startup in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We're hiring software developers and data scientists. They have a killer tech stack and incredible work culture.

We had the pleasure to speak with the CO-CEO of this company Andrew Robinson. Enjoy!

Chorus Intelligence (previously Create Intelligence) is an independent specialist provider of data-analytics solutions.

Their clients include law enforcement agencies, central governments, defence agencies and businesses.

Founded in 2011, Chorus Intelligence is dedicated to exploiting advances in technology for the benefit of our clients.

Chorus is the industry leading data cleansing and analysis tool for law enforcement and is already used by 90% of police forces and all of the counter terrorism units in the UK.

We had the pleasure to interview the Founder and CEO of the company, Boyd Mulvey. Enjoy!

Fifth Step provides services to executive and senior management to enhance their business’ IT capabilities, governance and processes, as well as reducing risks from organizational change. They do this by using best practice approaches, in a collaborative way, without the need to increase headcount.

We spoke with Fifth Step's CEO Darren Wray. Hope you enjoy this one!

ClearBank® is the UK’s first new clearing bank in more than 250 years. It delivers a new level of open competition and transparency to the UK financial services marketplace.

ClearBank® offers banking services to financial service providers, FCA-regulated businesses and Fintech. ClearBank® is neutral, independent and is not constrained by legacy infrastructure.

Their state-of-the-art technology transforms the ability for financial institutions to provide Current Accounts to their customers, resulting in faster and more efficient payments, whilst delivering financial inclusion.

We had the pleasure to meet and talk with Charles McManus, CEO of Clearbank.

Europe's fastest-growing fintech company (by assets and valuation). Launched in September 2015, OakNorth is a UK bank that provides fast, flexible and accessible debt finance (from £500k to £45m) to established British businesses. Their clients include nurseries, hotels, care homes, private equity firms, bars, restaurants, tech companies, security businesses, property developers / investors, and professional services companies. The group was founded by Rishi Khosla and Joel Perlman, themselves entrepreneurs who were inspired to launch the business following the challenges they faced in securing debt finance from high street banks for their previous business, Copal Amba (which scaled to c.3,000 employees and was acquired by Moody’s Corporation in 2014). We spoke with their CFO Cristina Alba Ochoa. Enjoy!

Flock is a London-based, VC and Government-backed insurtech startup operating at the cutting edge of the data analytics and insurance space. Flock has formed a global partnership with Allianz, the world's largest aviation insurer, to launch a suite of risk intelligence and insurance products for the drone industry. Recently featured in TechCrunch, The Economist, Mashable, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, and Business Insider. Winners of IBM's SmartCamp (London) competition. We spoke with one of the co-Founders and CEO Ed Leon Klinger.

Onfido is the new identity standard for the internet. Their AI-based technology assesses whether a user’s government-issued ID is genuine or fraudulent, and then compares it against their facial biometrics. That’s how they give companies like Revolut, Zipcar and Bitstamp the assurance they need to onboard customers remotely and securely. Their mission is to create a more open world, where identity is the key to access.

I had the pleasure to speak with the co-Founder and CEO of the company, Husayn Kassai who shared lots of great insights. Enjoy!