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Henry Mascot Is Teaching Insurance to Move at Software Speed
A student app, a million-naira prize and one well-timed pivot led Henry Mascot to the unglamorous machinery beneath insurance. Now he is asking how much of a company can run at software speed.
Andrew Adams Is Building the Boring Machinery That Makes Care Work
He studied stories and systems, then built a company around the paperwork everyone else avoided. Inside Andrew Adams's playbook: narrow the problem, earn trust, and keep rewriting the operating manual.
Tolga Tezel
Tolga Tezel is the founder and CEO of Canopy Connect, an insurance data infrastructure company that lets consumers securely share their insurance information with agents and businesses in seconds. A University of Waterloo electrical engineering graduate and former early engineer at Dropbox and Nova Credit, he prototyped Canopy Connect over a weekend after a dinner conversation with a friend's mother who ran an insurance agency. Since founding the company in February 2020, he has grown it to serve thousands of agencies and raised a $6.5M Series A, building what he describes as trusted, consumer-permissioned infrastructure for property and casualty insurance data.