
Before Raion turned toward AI infrastructure, Laurence Cohen was working on a more familiar bottleneck: getting the right people into the same conversation. His route from finance to founder interviews helps explain the business he is building now.

A summer at Norwich Union became a career in insurance. Now CEO of Marshmallow Insurance Ltd in Gibraltar, Paula Griffiths brings underwriting experience and a practical view of how people should work to a digital insurer.
A free startup platform taught Raion a costly lesson about attention. Its next bet pairs a private AI network with a plan to finance modular compute, one project at a time.