AV8 Ventures

💥 Congratulations to the Uizard by Miro Labs team on their acquisition by Miro! 🎉 The team's relentless drive never ceased to impress me over the years Tony Beltramelli Florian van Schreven Henrik Haugbølle Ioannis Sintos 💪👏 Thanks to impressive execution by the team, Uizard by Miro Labs is the go-to tool for 3M professionals worldwide. Grateful to be a seed investor, believing in the democratization of product design with AI back in 2019 🙏 It was awesome to work with super supportive co-investors Evan Nisselson LDV Capital, Nikhil Sachdev & Michael Shephard at Insight Partners and Tommy Andersen at byFounders 🙌 Excited for what's next as Uizard by Miro Labs and Miro together will redefine collaborative design 🚀🚀🚀 https://lnkd.in/gJrpk-fN #ui #ux #productdesign #ai #ml #llm #design #collaborativedesign

I just published: 🚀 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄&𝐒 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭: 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐕 🚀 🚀 Insurtech in E&S Insurance: Technology is transforming the E&S market, offering coverage for high-risk and unique situations. 📈 Explosive Growth: E&S premiums hit $99B in 2022, driven by rising catastrophe losses, climate change, and cyber threats. 📜 History & Regulation: E&S insurance dates back to 1890, with stringent state regulations ensuring robust financial stability. 💡 Digital Shift: New platforms streamline E&S processes, helping brokers efficiently manage complex risks and explore new markets. #insuranceindustry #insurance #insurtech #financialservices #excessandsurplus #insuranceinnovation #technology #fintech #innovation #startups AV8 Ventures Annex Risk Aon CRC Insurance Services HUB International Kinsale Insurance Skyward Specialty Insurance Marsh Amwins Lloyd's Gallagher AIG Ryan Specialty Insurtech Insights Finovate Insurance Thought Leadership Insurance Times InsurTechNews Insurtech Hub Insurtech UK WTW InsureTech Connect Fintech Today Coverager® 🐿️ Financial Technology Partners / FT Partners FinTech Futures Risk & Insurance RIMS (Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc.) FF News | Fintech Finance The ITC DIA Europe Community CB Insights FinTech Weekly InsurTech Israel

🔥 Thrilled to see Hydrolix crushing it with a $35M Series B! 🔥 Data is the new oil, but too much gets discarded due to prohibitive storage costs. Hydrolix cracks this with its streaming #datalake platform that leverages object storage, decoupled compute, indexing, & compression. As Marty Kagan puts it: 'We’re cheaper than cold storage and faster than hot storage' Hydrolix’s streaming data lake platform is a game-changer for #AI, #observability, & #security workloads. 💥 Real-time query performance at terabyte scale 💰75% savings on log mgmt & 4x more data retained  ☁️ Stateless & containerized for seamless scaling with Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3, Google Cloud GCS, Microsoft Azure Blob 💡 Had the early conviction (first investor) that data is key to unlocking AI & enterprise workloads. It's proving right. Huge thanks to Marty Kagan Hasan Alayli for letting me early on their journey to build an impessive company 🙏 Super pumped to have awesome Aaron Perman at S3 Ventures leading this round along with other strong existing investors - Nava Ventures (Manish Patel) Wing Venture Capital (Peter Wagner) Oregon Venture Fund (Matt Compton Scott Grout) and others 💪 Onwards! 🚀🚀🚀 #cloud #data #ai #ml #llm #largelanguagemodels #analytics #security #loganalytics #datalake #datawarehouse https://lnkd.in/g5i6afP5

Thrilled to share that I'll be moderating the panel "𝐄𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞" at the upcoming Insurtech Insights Conference in New York, happening on June 5-6! 🗽 Having previously shared insights at Insurtech Insights Europe earlier this year, I'm incredibly eager to bring those learnings to the vibrant landscape of New York City. Join me and fellow industry experts as we delve into simplifying the complexities of embedded insurance. 🚀 Mark your calendars and secure your spot today 👉 https://bit.ly/3x6E8fD See you in New York 🤓 #Insurtech #EmbeddedInsurance #ITIUSA24 #NewYorkCity #insurance #fintech AV8 Ventures Kristoffer Lundberg Emil Hannesbo Louise Delage Joanna England Megan Kuczynski

RSA 2024 Takeaway: AI or Die 🥵 Met dozens of CISOs, execs & founders at RSA this week. Quick observations: 1️⃣ Every vendor is AI-fying their pitch. They're leveraging AI/LLMs for various use cases - threat intelligence, SOC automation & more. Impressed by Google Cloud, CrowdStrike & Microsoft Azure security offerings with lots of LLM-powered automation across their stack 🤖 2️⃣ The other side of AI adoption? Security / Compliance / Safety. Many pitches around securing AI systems & data. AI safety will be a hot topic for a while. Congrats to Reality Defender Ben Colman for winning the RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox 👏 3️⃣ Enterprises are shifting towards unified security stacks driven by cost, simplicity & agility needs - EDR ASPM CNAPP SIEM ...all-in-one. This'll trigger a new wave of acquisitions by major players like CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, Wiz, SentinelOne. While there are many innovative exciting startups, I'm afraid most exits may be below $500M. 4️⃣ Critical infrastructure security is gaining more attention due to rising geopolitical threats. This is an urgent national security matter. I'm super proud to be an early investor in Eclypsium, Inc.. They are the MOST innovative critical infrastructure security platform for enterprises. 💪 (cc Yuriy Bulygin Alex Bazhaniuk) 5️⃣ Identity is the new perimeter. Loads of innovation here. A non-human identity layer is emerging rapidly. Cerby showcased many exciting product updates to secure new vulnerabilities in the identity stack. Watch this space 👀 Share if I miss others. #RSAC2024 #cybersecurity #IAM #EDR #SIEM #CNAPP #ASPM #criticalinfrastructure #supplychainsecurity #ai #ml #llm #largelanguagemodels

𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 $6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣𝐌 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐭 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 🚀 Last week, I had the pleasure of convening over 20 leaders 😎 from the Insurtech and Insurance sector to delve into the future of the industry and the pivotal role of technology 💾 Our discussions revolved around the upcoming wave of Insurtech, current challenges faced by founders, sector-specific opportunities, hurdles with enablers, and the potential in emerging markets 🌎 A heartfelt thank you to all the founders and executives who joined for the 𝐈𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐃𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬. Your insights and contributions made the event a resounding success, and I am truly grateful for your presence 🙏 Ladder Glow CoverTree Annex Risk Amplify Life Insurance MGT Insurance Agentero Olé life Vouch Insurance AKKO RENFROE® Munich Re Great American Insurance Group Hiscox USA Hiscox AV8 Ventures SVB Goodwin Aon Samad Wahedi Jeff Merkel Adarsh Rachmale Chad Nitschke Jared Brier 📱 Luis Pino Michael Carricarte Gavon “Austin” Renfroe Graham Topol Rodan Prather Michael Berger George Ugras Travis Hedge Charlie Sido Jason Sellers Ken Lorber Chris G. Hanna Wu Joseph Smart Bill Growney Nathan Hagler #insurtech #fintech #insurance #financialservices #risktransfer #startup

🚀 Join me at Insurance Innovators USA in Nashville this April ! 🚀 I am excited to take the stage and be part of a dynamic panel discussion 🎤 on "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 ☂" alongside fellow investors Joseph Guastella, Partner at Viewpoint, Aidan Madigan-Curtis, Partner at Eclipse, and Craig Schedler, Managing Director of Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures. Together, we'll explore cutting-edge themes that are reshaping the landscape of Insurtech. Don't miss this exclusive opportunity to gain insights, network with industry leaders, and be at the forefront of the evolving world of insurance. See you in Nashville 🤠 for an engaging discussion that promises to redefine the future of insurtech! 🗓️ Save the Date: 22-23 April 2024 📍 Location: Nashville, USA 👉 Sign up: https://lnkd.in/gRD9CYss #InsuranceInnovatorsUSA #Insurtech #FutureOfInsurance #IndustryLeaders #insurance AV8 Ventures

I just published: 🚀 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬: 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐈𝐈 🚀 🌎 Latin America's Insurtech Landscape ▪ Booming market potential with a young, tech-savvy population 🚀 ▪Challenges & opportunities in a region with high digital adoption rates 📱 🌍 Africa's Untapped Insurance Market ▪Vast growth potential amid challenges in awareness and trust 📈 ▪Microinsurance as a key player, leveraging technology for affordability 💡 🌐 MENA Region and Takaful's Cultural Alignment ▪Lowest insurance penetration, with Takaful emerging as a solution 🤝 ▪Established players in the Middle East leading Insurtech innovation 🌟 #Insurtech #Insurance #LatinAmerica #Africa #MENA #Takaful AV8 Ventures Sukoon Insurance yallacompare Olé life WAX PULA OKO Turaco Democrance هيئة التأمين | Insurance Authority DIFC Innovation Hub DIFC InsurTechNews Africa Insurtech Lab MENA InsurTech Association Coverager® 🐿️ Insurance Thought Leadership Insurance Times InsurTech Israel InsurTech Africa Insurtech Labs Latam Digital Insurance LatAm

Thrilled to see two outstanding companies, Eclypsium, Inc. and Second Front Systems, partnering to enhance our national security infrastructure 💪🇺🇸 Their partnership will fortify the United States Department of Defense's digital supply chain, establishing a new benchmark for security assurance and scalability 🛡️ cc Yuriy Bulygin Tyler Sweatt Aaron Jacobson #cybersecurity #digitalsupplychain #criticalinfrastructure #criticalinfrastructureprotection #cybersecurity https://lnkd.in/gSanH8nr

Don't miss out on the opportunity to learn more about the cutting-edge intersection of 👩💻AI and 🔬life sciences tomorrow, February 28, 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. ET! This is a virtual event - all are welcome! 🗨Discussions will cover the latest advancements in AI-driven 💊drug discovery, personalized medicine, genomic analysis, and disease prediction. Moderated Stephanie Oestreich (Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation - MMRF) and Diane Wuest (Genmab), Panelists Anastasia Christianson, Ph.D., Daphne Koller (insitro), Manolis Kellis (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard) and Ruchita Sinha (AV8 Ventures) will shed 💡light on the impact of new technology (LLMs, ChatGPT) on communication, technology adoption, society, and various aspects of this powerful language model for the life sciences. They will share perspectives across the 🏥healthcare industry from academia, VC investing, biotech, and pharma. Register today at https://lnkd.in/eg9CQiUi Women In Bio - Engage. Educate. Empower. WIB-Seattle Women In Bio - Capital Region Women In Bio - RTP Women In Bio-Southern California Women In Bio - Greater Montreal WIB-Chicago WIB-San Francisco Bay Area WIB-Philadelphia Metro WIB Pittsburgh WIB-Connecticut WIB-Metro New York #womeninbio #healthcare #lifesciences #biotech #investing #academia #pharma #AI #technology #technologytrends #technologyinnovation #drugdiscovery #genomics #prediction