Asia InsurTech Podcast

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Christina Cai, a co-founder and the COO of Lydia AI, about applying AI to healthcare data and the challenges of founding a startup. Find the transcript of our conversation here: Michael Waitze 0:00 Okay, the recorders on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze. And welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast in Asia focused on insurance that gives...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast had a great conversation with Sanchit Malik, the co-Founder and CEO of Pazcare. We discussed approaching the Insurance and InsurTech markets from a B2B perspective and how Sanchit and the Pazcare team look at solving problems and creating efficiencies using technology. Please see the transcript of the conversation below. Michael Waitze 0:04 Let’s give this our best shot....

The Asia InsurTech Podcast was speaking with Vivek Mannige, the founder and CEO of AccelTree Software, about how to increase insurance penetration in rural India, how to build an innovation culture and about life long learning. Here is the transcript of our conversation. Michael Waitze 0:00 Okay, we are on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze. And welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the onl...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast in conjunction with The Digital Insurer recorded a panel with Amarit Franssen, a co-founder of Appman , Christopher Dennis, an advisor at Luma and Remy Dorflinger, a managing director at Coherent to talk about the state of digital transformation in Thailand. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of the industry and the panelists...

February has been a super busy month for InsurTech in Asia. AIA is again in the news. The insurer has announced their “One Billion” initiative planning to engage a billion people to live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives by 2030. Adding to promoting a healthy lifestyle, AIA has also announced its new joint venture with South Africa’s Discovery to establish a new pan-Asian health insurtech business c...

In January 2022, the Asia InsurTech Podcast was catching up with Bob Wouters who is in charge of FWD general insurance in Thailand and bolttech InsurTech Exchange. bolttech has entered the market in Thailand with its device protection cover, transformed former aggregator Frank.co.th into the bolttech Insurance Exchange and partnered with telco provider DTAC. Listen to our previouse conversation wi...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Vipul Sud, the head of insurance at Azentio Software , about the importance of identifying the underlying business objective and how Azentio is consolidating the fragmented InsurTech platform market globally. The company has acquired essential tech capabilities to be one of the leading software providers in the financial services industry and in addition is wo...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Simon O’Dell, the managing director at InsurTech Gateway Australia, about the state of InsurTech in Australia and how the industry has accelerated over the past years. Here is the transcript of our conversation: Michael Waitze Hi, this is Michael Waitze. And welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast in Asia focused on insurance that...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Sanjib Jha, the CEO and Executive Director of Coverfox, about the startup ecosystem in India and how Coverfox has pivoted during Covid and came out the other end stronger than ever. Listen to our podcasts with PolicyBazaar here . Find the transcript of our conversation here: Michael Waitze Okay, we’re on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to the Asi...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Shanai Ghosh, the CEO and Executive Director at Edelweiss General Insurance, about how insurance can become easier, friendlier and more transparent and how digital has helped the company thrive during the pandemic. FInd the transcript of our conversation here: Michael Waitze Okay, we’re on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Pod...

Happy New Year everyone! We are looking forward to another exciting year in InsurTech in Asia!  Kicking off the year with a major acquisition story. UOB is looking to acquire Citibank’s operations in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam by 2024. In Hong Kong, eCommerce startup Bloom has announced a collaboration with AIA. This continues AIA’s foray into small-ticket eCommerce protection prod...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast caughtup with S kye Theodorou and Anish Sinha, the co-founders of UpCover to talk about how UpCover has pivoted and redefined their business model. Listen to the episode and hear them discuss the lessons they learned starting an InsurTech from scratch and managing through adversity. Listen to our first episode with Skye and Anish from September 2020 here . Here is the tr...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Andy Ann, the co-founder of YAS Digital, about embedded, small ticket micro-insurance and how the pandemic has helped accelerate digital transformation of the insurance industry. Listen to our first episode with Andy Ann in November 2020 here . Michael Waitze Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This remains the only podc...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Hamilton Angluben, the founder and CEO at Kwik Insure about how digital transformation of insurance has accelerated in the Philippines. Michael Waitze Okay. Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast in Asia focused on insurance that gives entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and investors a platform to disc...

The Asia IsnurTech Podcast spoke with A lex Leung, a co-founder of OneDegree, about their journey from starting a virtual insurer in Hong Kong selling pet insurance to cybersecurity and NFTs. Here is the transcript of our conversation: Michael Waitze Hi, this is Michael Waitze and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast in Asia focused on insurance that gives entrepren...

We end the year with a trend that we have been following throughout 2021 – embedded insurance. A pioneer in this space, Cover Genius , has just announced a new partnership with Agoda to offer embedded travel protection in Southeast Asia. We have talked about this only recently with Cover Genius’ MD for Southeast Asia, Arijit Chakraborty. Listen to the episode here .  Adding to the trend of embedde...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Jess Tham, the Executive Director and Head of claims of KSK in Thailand, about how incumbent insurer KSK is working together with InsurTech startup Sunday. Find the transcript of our conversation below. Michael Waitze Okay, we’re on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze. And welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast in Asia focused on insuranc...

2021 has been another record year in InsurTech. According to Willis Towers Watson’s Quarterly InsurTech Briefing – October 2021, InsurTech investments in 2021 could reach the entirety of 2018 and 2019 added together. Willis Towers Watson’s Quarterly InsurTech Briefing- October 2021 But InsurTech is no longer just about startups. The Asia InsurTech Podcast has closely followed the trend of insuranc...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Suhail Ghai, the Chief Digital and Information Officer at Max Life Insurance, about what insurance can learn from consumer goods companies and how technology has changed the inner works of an insurer. Find the transcript of our conversation here: Michael Waitze Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Kevin Angelini, the head of strategy and M&A for Asia Pacific at Zurich Insurance about the Zurich Innovation Championship and how startups can work with insurance incumbents.  Here is the transcript of our conversation.  Michael Waitze   Okay, we are on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast in As...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Rob Schimek, the Group CEO at bolttech about the power of embedded insurance and how bolttech is aiming to be the rails that the insurance industry builds itself on. Find the transcript of our conversation here:  Michael Waitze   Okay, we are on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast in Asia, focuse...

Another busy month in InsurTech in Asia. Swiss Re and Chinese tech giant Baidu are teaming up to help advance autonomous driving. Autonomous vehicles will disrupt the motor insurance market and early partnerships might be the way to go.  In Hong Kong, the Insurance Authority (IA) is exploring possibilities for an Open API Framework to facilitate data sharing and enable greater collaboration in the...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Evan Tanotogono, a co-founder and the CEO of Rey, about his vision to revolutionize healthcare in Indonesia and the reason why seasoned insurance executives are leaving the corporate world to start their own InsurTech.   Michael Waitze   Okay, we are on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze. And welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast in Asi...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Amerson Lin, a co-founder, and the CEO of Giga Cover, about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gig economy and how Giga Cover has pivoted since we last spoke with Amerson in August 2019.  Find the transcript of our conversation here:  Michael Waitze   Okay, we’re on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze. And welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is th...

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke to Andrew Wong, the founder of Koba Insurance , about the insurance market in Australia and the potential of pay-per-mile usage-based insurance.  Michael Waitze   Okay, we’re on. Hi, this is Michael Waitze, and welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is the only podcast in Asia focused on insurance that gives entrepreneurs, thought leaders and investors a...