THE REPORT
WEEK OF AUG 15, 2026
Week of August 9-15, 2026
$4.1B+ in disclosed capital | 4 primary transactions + 3 special situations + 7 market context items | A specialty risk exchange goes private for over $4 billion at a premium that still lands below its IPO price, an agribusiness MGU changes hands, an insurance clearinghouse quadruples its funding,…
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EPISODE 166
Paul Templar, Co-Founder & CEO of VIPR Solutions
Co-Founder & CEO, VIPR Solutions · AUG 4
The Data Problem Nobody Has Fully Solved: Inside Delegated Authority with Paul Templar
EP 165 — Yagub Rahimov — Founder & CEO, Polygraf.ai AUG 4
The Problem Is Not the Technology. It Is the People Using It.
EP 164 — Jon Kelly — CEO, Modern Metric JUL 24
The Man Who Built InsurTech Before It Had a Name
EP 163 — Jonathan Crystal — Founder & Managing Partner, Crystal Venture Partners JUL 17
We Talk Too Much About Technology and Not Enough About People
EP 162 — Justin Levine — Co-Founder & CEO, Shepherd JUL 10
The AI Race Moved to the Construction Site. Shepherd Is Building the Insurance for It.
EP 161 — Cheri Martinen — Managing Partner, OneDigital JUN 29
The Filing Cabinet Nobody Fixed — And the AI Liability Gap Nobody Is Talking About
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