In an ongoing effort to provide relevant mentorship, training, and acceleration modules for our startup community Quesnay partnered with Shearman & Sterling LLP to host two candid training sessions on raising capital.
Assaf Wand is the Co-Founder & CEO of InsurTech startup Hippo. Based in Palo Alto, CA, Hippo Insurance is reimagining home insurance through the lens of homeowners and changing the way people safeguard their most important asset. Prior to Hippo, Wand was the founder and CEO of Sabi, a consultant with McKinsey & Company, and an investor with Intel Capital. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA in finance and LLB in Law from the IDC Herzliya in Israel.
Recently, Assaf participated in a candid and engaging “Ask Me Anything” session as part of Quesnay’s Female Founders in InsurTech 2020 mentorship and education phase. Watch the replay of Assaf’s AMA and see our top takeaways below…
Quesnay recently concluded the 7th edition of our flagship innovation program, Female Founders in InsurTech 2020. On September 21, 2020, we hosted a virtual Final Pitch Event featuring our five high-caliber Finalists as they pitched to a panel of industry experts. Watch a replay of the event below, take a moment to congratulate our 1st (Hosta Labs), 2nd (upcover), and 3rd (PAI Health) place winners, and then continue on to read more about the insights and findings uncovered in this years’ program!
Quesnay Ambassador Margaret Spence is the Founder of The Employee to CEO Project & CEO of C. Douglas & Associates, Inc. presented to current and past participants of our Female Founders program about the ability to lead with power, foster innovation, and igniting a strategic shift in others requires deep introspection.
The women listed above are not the just “first women” to make these ground-breaking discoveries – they are the first ever scientists to make these discoveries. No one preceded their efforts and the world would not be as advanced, as healthy, or as connected, without them.
Prior to my research, I knew of perhaps three of these women. Clearly, women have been in the scientific fields for longer than what most people are familiar with. Just because we don’t associate 19th century women with science, doesn’t mean they weren’t doing it. It’s past time we gave them credit for their work.
Through surveys and interviews with FinTech startups and experts, we collected information that tells the story of the FinTech ecosystem and the 2018 Female Founders in FinTech innovation competition. The report includes findings related to diversity & inclusion, partnerships, and overall FinTech trends.
IncomeConductor took first place in Quesnay’s 2018 Female Founders in FinTech innovation competition. Symend and OZÉ were named as runners-up. Winners were selected by a group of executives from Wells Fargo, Discover Global Network, Fidelity Investments, and PayPal.
Discover Global Network had two executives serve as mentors during the competition. Diane Offereins, President of Payment Services, and Ricardo Leite, Vice President, Head of Global Products & Partnerships, at the company mentored two of the top five teams, fostering support for the best ideas to come out of the event.
Jonathan Poor, Quesnay’s innovation analyst, walks us through the best practices in sourcing and partnering with startups to build new products - this is the first of the three-part blog series.
