10 opinion leader in insurtech to follow on twitter

The worldwide insurtech sector booms and gets more and more divergent. How to deal with the mass of daily messages and upcoming trends? Who gives the best overview, features the important insights and is always at the cutting edge of insurtech innovations? Friendsurance CEO Tim Kunde presents his Top 10 insurtech opinion leaders really worth following.

1. Florian Graillot, @Fgraillot

Florian is a VC Investor at AXA Strategic Ventures. Starting his career as a strategic consultant at Boston Consulting Group in 2007 he became Investment Manager at Affine, a French-listed property company. Before joining AXA Ventures he worked for the Paris based VC fund Newfund.
Florian twitters about #Startup, #VC #FinTech #InsurTech #Blockchain #AXA.

2. Matthew Wong, @mlcwong

Matthew works as senior research and data analyst at the New York-based structured data startup CB Insights. He creates data-driven analysis and research reports on private company financing, exit and performance trends.

In November 2015 he launched the “Insurance Tech Insights”, a data-driven research publication and newsletter which covers the latest news about innovative technologies, companies revolutionizing distribution, underwriting, claims management and the insurance value chain.

3. Nektarios Liolios, @nekliolios

Nektarios is Co-Founder and Managing Director of the Startupbootcamp Fintech in London. SBC is the leading innovation program and accelerator in the financial industry which provides funding, mentorship, office space and access to a global VC-network for up to 10 special selected international Fintech startups. He is driven by entrepreneurship and “desire to transform the financial industry”. Calls himself a “global nomad, travel geek and sneaker freaker”.

4. Insurance Technology Daily, @InsTechDaily

The Twitter Channel Insurance Technology Daily covers the latest insurtech news around the Fintech and Insurance Industry. Shares Tweets about #instech #fintech #insurtech #insurancetech and #insdisrupt

5. Rick Huckstep, @rickhuckstep

Rick is a Strategic Advisor, Keynote Speaker, Adviser and Consultant in the area of digital insurance innovation. As European MD for The Digital Insurer he published over 40 research notes in 2015 on the rising insurtech innovations. The Digital Insurer is an online forum for professionals interested in digital insurance topics around the world.
Tweets about #digital #Insurance #innovation #coach #writer #speaker #investor #blockchain.

6. Oliver Ralph, @oliver_ralph

Oliver is an Insurance Correspondent at the Financial Times and twitters on his own channel about insurtech, Insurance Industry News, Digital Insurance Innovation and Fintech.

7. InsurTechnews, @insurtechnews

On Insurtechnews you get breaking news, insights and analyses from the area of digital insurance. The Twitterfeed of Insurtechnews keeps Insurers, Distributors, Tech Plavers, Investors and Insurance Sector Stakeholders updated with the latest relevant insurtech trends.

It also offers a weekly Wednesday Newsletter that keeps you posted on breaking news, trends and events. The project InsurTechNews is designed by a international startup based in Milan, Italy, that provides digital services for the Insurance Industry. Tweets around #insurance #digital and #insurtech trends.

8. Axa Lab, @AXALab

AXA, a French based insurance company boosting innovation in the insurance sector. AXA creates an ecosystem of structures dedicated to investment and innovation with the AXA Lab, Kamet (an incubator), the AXA Factory (an accelerator) and AXA Stratetic Ventures (venture capital fund). AXA Lab is the so-called trend-detector based in the heart of the leading technology enterprises in Silicon Valley and Shanghai. With @AXALab they share tweets around #InsurTech #Fintech and all events, innovational trends and news out of the AXA and InsurTech laboratory.

9. Mundi Lab, @MundiLab

Mundilab is the insurtech acceleration program of the Munich RE that facilitates the go-to-market of startups with solutions for the insurance industry. It’s a partnership between Munich RE (worldwide leading risk carrier) and Alma Muni Ventures (Venture Capital firm focused on technology-based companies).

10. Bought By Many, @boughtbymany

Bought By Many is an insurtech startup offering a free but members-only service to help you find a special insurance out of the ordinary. Therefore it encourages groups of people with specific similar insurance needs together to get insurance in order to become cheaper policies. Bought By Many was awarded with Fintech Innovation of the Year 2016.

Tim Kunde

Tim Kunde, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Friendsurance.
Co-founding Friendsurance in 2010 as the first worldwide Peer-to-peer Insurance Platform he is an Insurtech Pioneer.
Tim started his career with Boston Consulting Group, advising various companies on consumer goods and insurance matters.