In this episode, Silas Mahner (@silasmahner) speaks w/ Stephen Brittain from Insurtech Gateway (@Ideas_Gateway). They are incubating Impact Risk Mitigation and Insurance Companies / Products. On the back end, they invest and connect these companies with partners in the insurance space and other VCs.

Today's conversation is a bit high-level but has many great insights.

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Topics:
**2:29 Intro
**7:05 What Insurtech Gateway is (this is the section that will be swapped with the second recording)
**12:26 How insurance works and what they are doing differently
**19:13 How they identify the right CO's
**27:21 How to determine which areas to work on
**32:20 The process of finding founders and taking them through the incubation process
**43:46 FloodFlash
**53:13 Preventing ahead of issues
**54:42 Smoothing out the price issues
**1:01:04 What milestones need to be hit to really go onto Series A
**1:06:49 How insurance factories are partnering with these startups
**1:10:55 Who he wants to meet

Links:
**Stephen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenbrittain/
**Insurtech Gateway: https://www.insurtechgateway.com/
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