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Luke Button Is Teaching Insurance to Stop Asking, ‘Any Update?’
After startups in cloud software, warehouse staffing and retail brokerage, Luke Button found his next company in the least glamorous sentence in commercial insurance: ‘Any update?’ Hedge is his attempt to make the answer arrive before the opportunity disappears.
Michael Gulla Is Teaching Insurance to Move at the Speed of the Weather
After two decades inside insurance, the Austin founder is betting that the next useful policy will behave less like paperwork and more like an if-then statement - watching the event, verifying the trigger and moving money while it can still help.
Ivan Herrera Built UniVista by Betting on the Overlooked
A biology graduate arrived in Miami with a family, a dog and an accent corporate America underestimated. His answer was to learn sales, risk the house and build an insurance company around customers the industry had learned not to see.
Dustin Walsey Learned Insurance From the Back Seat
Before Buckle became a fronting platform for MGAs, its idea was tested one ride at a time. Dustin Walsey’s route from Atlanta newspaper kid to insurance CEO is a study in listening closely, explaining simply and learning where the old categories fail.
Steve Weinstein Is Building a Florida Insurer With Bermuda in Its Roots
After three decades studying catastrophe risk from boardrooms in New York and Bermuda, Steve Weinstein chose Florida for his founder’s bet. Mangrove’s strategy is equal parts underwriting discipline, global reinsurance and a stubborn belief that difficult markets can still reward patient builders.
Tyler Van Spanje Built a Career Around the Quiet Machinery of Risk
From cargo paperwork to warehouse liability, the TIMBY founder has spent three decades making obscure risks legible - then turning that expertise into a company built for brokers in a hurry.
Christopher Lotz Bet on the Boring Part of Fintech
A yacht underwriter crossed oceans, learned the machinery of risk, and came home to rebuild renters insurance around a plain idea: the customer should be on the same side as the company.