Fabrizia Roberto | Koverd | Insurtech
koverd helps people find and maintain the best cover for their own individual needs throughout their life journey. No jargon. No confusing processes. Just helpful and transparent guidance. For most people, buying and managing all their insurance these days feels like driving down a busy and unfamiliar road, in a manual car and no GPS. All we want is to get from A to B. To get the right protection. However the experience is confusing, frustrating and it’s easy to get lost.
Insurtech | KOBA | Andrew Wong
KOBA is looking to shake up the car insurance market in Australia, with usage-based car for private vehicles. Founder Andrew Wong is challenging traditional insurance models built from aggregated data sets and averages of the population. For the first time in Australia, through KOBA, he is empowering drivers to determine your premium based on how much they are actually driving each month. We were lucky enough to speak to Andrew about his journey and KOBA.
Sharing Economy | Hugh Treseder | Floatspace
Hugh Treseder is the Founder and CEO of Floatspace. Floatspace is a sharing economy business that makes it easy and safe for people to make some money by renting out their boat for charter…
Insurtech | TreeManager | Peter Dubiez
Peter Dubiez spent the first ten years of his life growing up in Singapore, and then immigrated to Australia where his mother was born. While growing up Peter had many dreams of what he wanted to be from a lawyer, a sport physiotherapist, a coach, a surf bum...He was lucky enough to experiment with a few of them….
Insurtech | Codafication | Daniel Sandaver
Daniel was born in Mackay in Northern Queensland and grew up in Brisbane. Daniel had all the typical dreams of being an astronaut but knew by grade 7 or 8 – when he started studying business and finance in high school – that he wanted to be a business owner and an entrepreneur….
Insurtech Australia | Rita Yates
Rita grew up in Melbourne, and as a child couldn’t decide whether she wanted to be an FBI agent, fiction author or an Olympic athlete. After managing corporate partnerships for innovation hub Stone & Chalk, and having worked in the insurance industry, her and a group of other co-founders decided to build a thriving Insurtech community here in Australia…
Insurtech | Matt Hodson | Blue Zebra
Matt Hodson grew up in Hednesford, a small ex mining town about 30 miles north of Birmingham in England. Growing up Matt wanted to be a soccer player and play for Aston Villa but never ended up getting close. So when Matt turned 16, he focused on becoming an actuary, first at university and then initially with PwC in London. Today, Matt works with Blue Zebra, a company that offer insurance products to…
Insurtech | ClaimSpace | Aurora Voss
Aurora Voss was born in Durban, south Africa and moved to Sydney when she was 10 years old. When she was younger she wanted to be a country singer and then an eye surgeon. Aurora is now CEO and a co-founder of ClaimSpace, a platform creating no-code digital experiences for everyone that it takes to
Insurtech | Upcover | Skye Theodorou
Skye Theodorou grew up in Sydney, Australia. Growing up she had many different career ambitions - everything and anything from a singer, to a psychologist. At one stage, she wanted to be a lawyer but that was always a secret. After working in the NSW Government and the insurer Zurich, she decided to become an entrepreneur