Starting the week with a really great episode of The Leadership In Insurance Podcast. I sat down with Amir Kabir , partner at AV8 Ventures to chat about all things insurtech valuations, and emerging markets.

I always enjoy speaking to people in venture about their take on innovation as they are quick to spot what’s on the horizon. Prior to AV8, Amir was an investment director and founding team member at Munich Re Ventures where he lead and managed investment efforts for two of the funds and made early bets in Insurtech. Now at AV8 Amir heads up with fintech and insurtech portfolios.

We covered lots of ground in this conversation, discussing the evolution of insurtech and challenging how we approach valuations. We got stuck into what’s going on in Latam. What I particularly enjoyed about this conversation was that Amir has so many thoughts to share on how as an industry we approach emerging markets.

He raised some fascinating points I’ve been mulling over since.. such as, are we making a mistake by expecting the emerging markets to follow the same patterns that we’ve seen in more mature markets? Is this inherently limiting innovation?

Here are some of the highlights...

📌 Investing in insurtech - what do you look out for and what’s exciting you right now?

📌 How do go about valuing an insurtech? Have mistakes been made in how they are valued in the past?

📌 The Latam market - What is interesting about the insurtech activity in Latam?

📌 Parametric insurance and how it's closing the protection gap

📌 What is the next evolution of insurtech?

Thank you again Amir for joining us on the podcast!

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