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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Founder operating in the InsurTech space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Steven Mendel
Co-Founder and CEO of Bought By Many
Steven has over 25 years’ experience as an actuary in financial services which has included leading Close Brothers Wealth Management during the launch of their non-advised offering; creating the world’s first art-focused wealth advice offering for Christie’s; working as part of the team that formed Barclays Wealth and heading the McKinsey UK Savings and Investment Group. Steven now runs Bought By Many which is disrupting the world of insurance through the innovative use of search and social media. (www.boughtbymany.com). In April 2019 Steven was included in the London Business School Review of 30 People Who Are Changing The World.
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About Bought By Many: Bought By Many is a pet InsurTech company that provides insurance products and a streamlined customer experience.
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Guy Farley
Co-Founder and CTO of Bought By Many
Guy is the author of the first-generation technology used by Bought by Many. He now steers the tech ship in the right direction. Outside the office, he’s a devoted father of two and is looking forward to sharing his passion for sailing, climbing and skiing with his kids once they’re old enough.
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About Bought By Many: Bought By Many is a pet InsurTech company that provides insurance products and a streamlined customer experience.
David Vanek
Co-Founder and CEO of Anorak
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About Anorak, Kamet: Anorak offers a smart independent insurance adviser that gives people access to tailored advice about their life and their risks.
Vincent Durnez
Co-Founder and CT0 of Anorak
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About Anorak, Kamet: Anorak offers a smart independent insurance adviser that gives people access to tailored advice about their life and their risks.
Alexander Kent-Braham
Co-Founder of Marshmallow
Alexander was an early employee at Yoti – a fintech startup that has gone on to be valued at $100m. Prior to Yoti he worked at an algorithmic quantitative Hedge Fund.
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About Marshmallow: Marshmallow is a full-stack insurance carrier driven by technology.
Oliver Kent-Braham
Co-Founder of Marshmallow
Oliver was part of the founding team of Yoti. Prior to Yoti he worked in financial services and founded a mobile application startup.
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About Marshmallow: Marshmallow is a full-stack insurance carrier driven by technology.
Javier Santiso
Founder & General Partner of Alma Mundi Ventures
Javier Santiso is the managing director of global affairs and new ventures at [Telefonica](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/telefonica), a diversified telecommunications group that provides fixed line and mobile telephony services. He currently resides in Madrid, Spain.
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About Alma Mundi Ventures, Start Up Spain, Telefonica: Alma Mundi Ventures is a venture capital firm that funds primarily technology-based companies with B2B and B2B2C business models.
Roman Itskovich
Co-Founder & CRO of At-Bay
Roman is the co-founder of CyberJack, a venture backed cyber insurance startup. Previously, he built an online lending business at Ebury, a Greylock backed Fintech firm, was on the investment team of Bain Capital, and was a consultant with Mckinsey&Co. Roman holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About At-Bay, CyberJack: At-Bay is a cybersecurity insurance company that helps businesses meet digital risk head-on.
Dominic Strowbridge
Founder and Chief Product Officer of ctrlio
Founder at Ctrlio
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About ctrlio: ctrlio provides point of quote services to motor insurers
Laurence John
Founder & CEO of ctrlio
Founder at Ctrlio
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About ctrlio: ctrlio provides point of quote services to motor insurers
Anthony Beilin
Founder & CEO of Collective Benefits
Anthony is Founder & CEO at Collective Benefits where he is on a mission to solve the protection gap faced by over 6M self-employed in the UK. Previous to this he was Global Head of Innovation at Aviva and formerly Founder & COO at Unbound Innovations.
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About Collective Benefits: Insurance and benefits to make independent work, work for everyone.
Benjamin Hay
Co-Founder & COO of Collective Benefits
Benjamin Hay is co-founder at Collective Benefits
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About Collective Benefits: Insurance and benefits to make independent work, work for everyone.
Robert Lumley
Director and Co-Founder of Insurtech Gateway
Robert joined Hambro Perks in 2016 to build and lead the InsurTech Gateway, the Hambro Perks InsurTech incubator. He has worked in the insurance sector since 1984 concentrating on niche products, in particular designing engagement strategies through the application of innovative ideas to help insurers build long term productive relationships with their customers. Robert started with the development of a Film and Television Insurance Unit out of Edward Lumley & Sons’ Colchester Office before moving to London to launch the first Rent and Legal protection and property insurance offering for let properties. After a 3-year visit to Lumley Life in Australia, Robert returned to establish Richmunds Insurance which specialised in the Letting Sector. Premium income grew to £30m by the time the business was sold in 1991. Robert grew up in an insurance family and has experience in many product areas including Specialist Motor, Classic Car, Let Property, Life Insurance and Bloodstock. Robert is Chairman of Lumley Jacobs and continues his work with niche insurance businesses through the Lumleys.net investments.
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About FloodFlash, Insurtech Gateway: The only FCA authorised independent incubator + fund, the Insurtech Gateway is the fastest place to build and launch an insurtech idea.
Stephen Brittain
Director and Co-Founder of Insurtech Gateway
Stephen is an experienced innovation consultant with a deep understanding of startups, design, strategic innovation and translating this to investors. As Hambro Perks first Creative Director, he supported their growing portfolio (including Sipsmiths, Laundrapp, Takumi, TheDots) through early stage development and testing. He is now applying his experience to disruptive InsurTech businesses, getting to market – fast!
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About Insurtech Gateway: The only FCA authorised independent incubator + fund, the Insurtech Gateway is the fastest place to build and launch an insurtech idea.
Darius Kumana
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Wrisk
Darius has worked in varied environments, holding executive/leadership roles in firms ranging from large corporates to small avant-garde firms, consultancies and green-field startups. He is an expert UX practitioner and led the Experience Design Practice for ThoughtWorks Europe (a top technical consultancy) for several years. During his time there he led several successful digital programmes, including large scale transformations for Thomson Reuters and launching TimeOut’s award-winning iPhone app.
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About Wrisk: Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.
Kevin McLoughlin
Partner and Co-Founder of MTech Capital
Kevin McLoughlin spent 22 years in insurance investment banking, most recently as the Global Head of Insurance Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and prior to that, as Global Head of Insurance Banking at Citigroup. He also spent 7 years as an executive at AIG. Kevin maintains senior level relationships across the insurance industry globally, having advised many of the largest companies during his banking career. Kevin holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Boston College. He is based in London.
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About MTech Capital: MTech Capital is a venture capital firm investing in InsurTech – technology companies operating in the insurance industry.
Tim Hardcastle
CEO and Co-Founder of Instanda
Tim is a highly experienced Board level CIO/COO in FTSE 100 and 250 businesses. His experience managing and leading technology-enabled business change and his determination to consistently exceed outcome expectations led him to lead the development of the entirely new business and service model that is INSTANDA.
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About Instanda: Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online.
Derek Hill
COO and Co-Founder of Instanda
Derek Hill have experience spanning several eras of technology advancement, Derek’s insights into provisioning and global deployment of online solutions and leveraging the latest ecosystem of solutions is second to none. An industry thought leader in MS Azure and architect of INSTANDA’s rapid scaling capabilities in multiple countries, Derek has worked extensively with Boards to unravel the complexity of technology-enabled change. As COO of INSTANDA, he has a simple mission: unparalleled customer service combined with unrivalled platform value and quality.
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About Instanda: Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online.
Antton Peña
Founder and CPO of Flock Ltd.
Antton Pena is the Founder of Flock, a London-based drone insurtech company which has partnered with Allianz to pioneer the future of Big-Data driven insurance.
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About Flock Ltd.: London-based insurtech building the world’s first fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous commercial vehicles
Bola Adegbulu
Co-Founder and CEO of Predina Tech
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About Predina Tech: Building the Location Risk Intelligence platform for the future of Auto Insurance and Mobility
Luca Schnettler
Founder and CEO of Qumata
Luca Schnettler is the Founder and CEO at Qumata.
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About Qumata: HealthyHealth is now Qumata. We are building a new Standard for Life and Health Insurance Underwriting.
Henri Winand
Co-Founder and CEO of AkinovA
Shorter bio: Entrepreneur, insurtech/fintech, new energy, angel investors Dr Henri Winand Co-founder & CEO AkinovA Short biography • Grew technology firm globally from 40 people to USD 1bn IPO • USD 200m+ capital raised • Intelligent Energy, CEO • Rolls-Royce plc, Vice President New Ventures (M&A) • PhD Materals Science (Cantab), MBA Full biography I am a growth and change oriented CEO with a passion for scaling up a broad set of technologies globally using different business models and team-based delivery. I now serve as CEO for AKINOVA Ltd. AKINOVA is an insurance technology company I co-founded with a specialist ILS (insurance linked securities and related insurance products) London based City fund manager. Prior to this, I served as CEO of a British tech company listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market (Intelligent Energy, a $1bn tech IPO) with in excess of $250m raised from a broad range of sources, leading to strong top line growth, largely from internationally-based customers. I served on several Boards in the UK, Singapore, India, Japan and the US in the energy, software services, film contents publishing and automotive sectors. I also served on the Board of an EU funded €1bn+ public private tech partnership (PPP). I served on several advisory bodies to Ministers, Secretaries of State and Officials in the new energy, automotive and materials science sectors in the UK as well as on the Alumni Advisory Board of the Warwick Business School and of the University of Cambridge. I have more than a dozen patents granted and pending. I have several papers published in well-known, peer reviewed, scientific journals, topics including composite materials, neutron diffraction and processes to improve industrial product development cycles. I am regularly invited to speak at international conferences and spoke in the US Senate and French Sénat. I provide advice to selected major global institutional, venture capital and private equity funds. In addition to meeting several Heads of State including that of France, India and the UK over the last few years, I have made several appearances on live and recorded TV and Radio programmes (e.g. Live CNBC TV, Live Bloomberg TV, Live BBC Radio 4 “The Today Programme”, recorded BBC and other programmes, provided thought leadership and quoted articles in broadsheets, e-newspapers and The Huffington Post). I am married to Anne and we have one child, Alexander.
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About AkinovA: AkinovA: an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of (re)insurance risks.
Jean-Michel Paul
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor of AkinovA
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About AkinovA: AkinovA: an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of (re)insurance risks.
Cameron Shearer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Superscript
Cameron Shearer is the CEO and Co-Founder at Superscript.
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About Superscript: Superscript provides business insurance designed specifically to meet the fast-changing needs of small businesses.
Ben Rose
Co-Founder and Chief Underwriting Officer of Superscript
Ben Rose is the Co-founder and Chief Underwriting Officer at Superscript.
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About Superscript: Superscript provides business insurance designed specifically to meet the fast-changing needs of small businesses.
Peter Bousquet
Co-Founder & CCO of Humn.ai
Peter Bousquet is the Co-Founder and CCO at Humn.ai.
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About Humn.ai: Humn.ai develops an insurance platform that delivers risk-adjusted insurance pricing in real time for commercial vehicle fleets.
Mark Musson
Founder & CEO of Humn.ai
Mark Musson is the Co-Founder and CEO at HUMN.ai.
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About Humn.ai: Humn.ai develops an insurance platform that delivers risk-adjusted insurance pricing in real time for commercial vehicle fleets.
James Blackham
Founder & CEO of By Miles
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About By Miles: By Miles is reinventing car insurance – pay an annual cost to cover your car while it’s parked, then pay by the miles you drive each month.
Callum Rimmer
Co-Founder & CTO of By Miles
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About By Miles: By Miles is reinventing car insurance – pay an annual cost to cover your car while it’s parked, then pay by the miles you drive each month.
Paweł Sieczkiewicz
Co Founder & CEO of Telemedi
Graduate of Warsaw University of Technology, experienced project manager (web/mobile apps), php programmer. Founder of an SSF software house. 2x champion of Poland in kickboxing.
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About Telemedi: Trusted partner in digital healthcare
Pawel Terpilowski
CTO – Co-Founder of Bequest
Pawel Terpilowski is the Co-Founder and CTO of Bequest.
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About Bequest: We’re building an advanced way for millions of people to protect themselves and their loved ones.
Joshua Wallace
Co-Founder of Cytora
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About Cytora: Cytora is a configurable platform that enables commercial insurers to create digital workflows by digitising, evaluating and routing risks.
Aeneas Wiener
Co-Founder & CTO of Cytora
Aeneas draws on 10+ years of technical experience developing bespoke cloud-driven web applications. He holds masters degrees in Theoretical Physics and Computational Science from Imperial College London. His widely published postgraduate work focused on optical materials used for chemical sensing and invisibility cloaking. In 2011 Aeneas co-founded the Hermes Academy, an innovative nonprofit organisation backed by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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About Cytora: Cytora is a configurable platform that enables commercial insurers to create digital workflows by digitising, evaluating and routing risks.
Eva Berg-Winters
Founder & CEO of Bewica
Eva Berg-Winters has a background in insurance and management consulting with a focus on digital. Until summer 2017, she was Head of UK&I Claims with a leading insurer. She has since founded Bewica to help SMEs manage cyber risks.
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About Bewica: Bewica makes cybersecurity beautifully simple for small organisations with our award-winning SaaS platform
Arnor Davidsson
Co-Founder and chief technology officer of Insurami
Experienced technologist with strengths in entrepreneurship, software development, product management and user experience. Gained by working with a mixture of established tech companies and early stage startups.
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About Insurami: Insurami offers a deposit guarantee platform for commercial real estate
Cristiano Pizzocheri
Co-Founder and CEO of SafeShare
Cristiano has more than 12 years experience in the Insurance Industry and particularly in the London Market, placing a multitude of products in Lloyd’s and Company Markets. He has been instrumental in developing Special Risks Insurance Brokers and is an advisory consultant to leading insurance players for expansion into new markets. He has expertise in both Direct and Reinsurance business. With Z/Yen he co-founded Insenter, an innovative insurance platform and community network. He holds a Masters in Economic Science from Switzerland and has worked in Italy, Switzerland, USA and the UK.
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About SafeShare: SafeShare is an insurance business for the sharing economy industry.
Simon Taylor
Founder & Managing Director of Get Indemnity
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About Get Indemnity: Get Indemnity is a Digital Insurance Broker for UK business
Nektarios Liolios
Co-Founder and CEO of Startupbootcamp InsurTech London
Co-founder & Managing Director of Startupbootcamp FinTech, the leading innovation program in the financial industry, providing funding, mentorship, office space in the heart of London and access to a global network of investors and VCs, for up to 10 selected FinTech startups. More than 15 years in the business, they last three with Innotribe, SWIFT’s initiative to enable collaborative innovation and running the Innotribe Startup Challenge. Driven by entrepreneurship, collaboration and the desire to transform the financial industry. Global nomad, travel geek, sneaker freaker.
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About Startupbootcamp FinTech Singapore, Startupbootcamp InsurTech London: Startupbootcamp InsurTech is the leading accelerator focused on insurance innovation.
Simon Phelan
Co-Founder and CEO of Hometree
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About Hometree: Hometree exists to make home ownership simple & sustainable
Sam Hopkins
CTO/Co-Founder of Tapoly on demand insurance
Having been involved in the software engineering industry for over 20 years, within both start-ups and established companies, Sam’s professional experience covers finance, file systems, databases, kernel programming, websites, encryption, UI, and 3D graphics. Sam designs systems with the future in mind, keeping things simple yet flexible so they can be adapted to follow the evolution of the business they support. His knowledge, skills and vision help create the Tapoly you see today.
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About Tapoly on demand insurance: On demand insurance for freelancers, contractors and SMEs, and everyone else in the sharing economy and the gig economy.
John Warburton
Co-Founder & CEO of Konsileo
Founder at Konsileo, a tech startup in insurance broking.
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About Insurtech UK, Konsileo: Konsileo is a commercial insurance broker using technology to empower individuals and replace hierarchical management.
David King
Founder of Artificial Labs
David King is the Founder at Artificial Labs.
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About Artificial Labs: We’re making insurance frictionless. We collaborate with leading insurers, using technology to save time, money and increase sales.
Johnny Bridges
Founder of Artificial Labs
Johnny Bridges is the Founder at Artificial Labs.
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About Artificial Labs: We’re making insurance frictionless. We collaborate with leading insurers, using technology to save time, money and increase sales.
Jude Greer
Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director of Reposit
Jude Greer is a Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director at Reposit.
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About Guardian Angel, Reposit: The tenancy deposit alternative. A new way of renting without the hassle of a deposit
Brendan Short
Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director of Reposit
Brendan Short is the Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director at Reposit.
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About Atom Learning, Reposit: The tenancy deposit alternative. A new way of renting without the hassle of a deposit
Garth Shephard
Founder & Partner of 72 Capital Limited
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About 72 Capital Limited: Boutique M&A, fundraising and strategic adviser to the small and mid-cap technology, digital media and sport sectors.
Joshua Ratilal
Co-Founder and Director of Zentivo
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About Zentivo: Zentivo is an Insurtech startup, focusing on digitising the life insurance claims process.
