Commercial Insurance

Phillip Naples, CEO and Co-Founder of Layr

Phillip Naples, CEO and Co-Founder of Layr

In this episode, Phillip Naples, CEO and co-founder of Layr, a digital insurance brokerage pumped up with AI and magic, talks with Gilad Shai about Layr (of London), placing the rails for insurance, the service and financial gain to brokers, growing the team and support from InsurTech savvy investors.

Jeff McCann, CEO & Founder of APOLLO

Jeff McCann, CEO & Founder of APOLLO

In this episode, Jeff McCann, CEO and Founder of APOLLO, and Gilad Shai talk about APOLLO, an online insurance company based out of Vancouver, Canada, merch, Jeff's vision, investors, and Good to Great.

our focus is really underwriting a really good business and proving that the algorithms we create can actually price and underwrite good loss ratios

David McFarland, CEO and Founder of Coterie

David McFarland, CEO and Founder of Coterie

In this episode, David McFarland and I talk about Coterie, empowering the Small Medium Business (SMB) insurance with APIs and a digital binding authority. David elaborates on working with other startups and his team.

We're definitely more on the MGA, MGU side. We think of ourselves as like the manufacturer of insurance.

Ben Munro - Briza

Ben Munro - Briza

In this episode, I had the pleasure of hosting Ben Munro. Ben and I talked about delivering commercial insurance via API, about his company--Briza, building a company that service insurance agents and insurance carriers, founding and funding a startup, CX vs. KPI, and Lord of the Rings.

In 2015 or 2016, you didn't have APIs to work with. There was no way to connect back into insurers. For the most part. What you ended up having was a very user-friendly slick website, a very very nice kind of online experience, but it was really a call center that was trying to fulfill those risk placements.