On this episode, Sabine VdL interviews Ally Schneider who heads up venture partnerships at Vouch, a business insurance platform for startups which has raised over $70million with well-renowned investors. Ally stalks to Sabine about the company’s business model and help us understand how Vouch helps founders like you.

On this episode, Sabine VdL interviews Roman Rittweger, founder and CEO of Ottonova – a digital health insurance provider for individual patients, self-employed people, etc. Today, seven years after it was started, Ottonova has over 100 employees and has deployed a marketplace (end-to-end platform) that helps users register for and access health insurance coverage for medical services. It has raised over $140million in Series E, some of its investors include such names as Early Bird Venture Capital and Seven Ventures

On this episode, Sabine VdL interviews Steven Mendel, CEO and Co-Founder of Bought By Many, an insuretech startup which is really well known in the UK market. Bought By Many is making the world a better place for pet parents through its tech-enabled insurance.

On this episode, Sabine VdL interviews Helene Panzarino, author of Reinventing banking and finance, A Framework to navigate global fintech innovation which was published in November 2020 on Amazon. The pair discuss the book and the key insight Helene provides to reinvent the banking business model.

On this episode, Sabine VdL interviews Spiros Margaris who discusses the pros and cons of working for, setting up a startup, the best way to succeed in business, the future of FinTech and much more.

On this episode, Sabine VdL reviews the four types of investment and who is winning the corporate venturing game as well as looking to the future to evaluate and imagine what is coming our way.

On this episode, Sabine VdL interviews Sam Evans, a Founding Partner with Eos Venture Partners, who has spent the last four years investing in InsurTech startups. He is an active speaker and top 50 InsurTech influencer. Prior to establishing Eos, Sam was a partner at KPMG where he led the Global Deal Advisory business for insurance. During his career, Sam has worked on over $75bn of insurance-related transactions and has worked in many of the large mature and high growth insurance markets around the globe. Sam lived in great countries and locations including Australia, Hong Kong, and Switzerland. Today, Sam lives in the UK.

On this episode, Sabine VdL interviews Florian Graillot, an investor and co-founder of Astorya.vc or Astorya. Astorya invests in Seed InsurTech startups across Europe. In this conversation the pair cover topics including who he is, why he started Astorya and how he sees the world of corporate venturing today and tomorrow.

In this episode, Sabine VdL is joined by Matthew Jones, Managing Director and venture capital investor in insurance and risk management-related technology for Anthemis in the UK, Europe, and North America. Through his previous work with Swiss Re, Matthew sponsored Sabine’s first accelerator and was one of her most active mentors, engaged assessor, and investor. They both learned massively during the acceleration programme as to what a sustainable business model meant.

On this episode, Sabine VdL defines what venture scouting, or technology scouting means and why companies and investors see it as so important. She also discusses what skillsets a technology scout needs to succeed as well as what should motivate them and how these strategies are delivered.

In this episode, Sabine VdL describes what corporate venturing is and what it entails, how it can help startups and entrepreneurs, why there is an increased drive towards corporate venturing today and the best strategies to deploy VC programmes.

I just thought I would explain… Why Scouting for Growth? I have been fortunate for the past six years to work with Tech ventures wanting to change the world of insurance, finance, health, and wealth to name but a few. To accelerate great companies, one needs to understand a little bit about business. I have been fascinated with building growth ecosystems for the past six years. Getting my ventures to collaborate better and faster. At the same time, I have been driven by the potential of enabling my corporate partners to collaborate better with tech ventures while enabling those growth ventures with the greatest potential to engage with the many investors who gave me their trust. Scouting For Growth is the underlying premise for both … Venture Capitalists and Corporate Venturists. One side is looking for financial returns mostly from investing in start-up ventures. The other side tries to balance both financial and strategic returns. And often create unnecessary tech bubbles through the process. Anyway, I want to demystify through this podcast series two important processes that yield strong financial outcomes though 1) partnership, 2) investment, but then leading to 3) growth and 4) scale. First, Scouting For Growth is about scouting for ventures: or identifying and nurturing startups that are aligned to major market problems. The outcome sought may mostly be partnerships and collaborations but also longer-term investment opportunities for the many. Second, Scouting For Growth is about building ventures: or creating and designing new customer value propositions supported by disruptive business models able to solve some of the most complex challenges we need to contend with today.  Hopefully, the lessons learnt will ensure that we gather the right tools and techniques to build the growth business of tomorrow. You will also find that… I am French. I have been in the UK for 30 years. I am fortunate to have worked with some renowned companies around the world. But despite my great English I still and often drop my “ses” and count in French. I hope you won’t mind. You can take the French gal out of France. But rarely will you change her truly!