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Travis Hedge Built an Insurance Carrier. Then He Changed His Mind.
The Vouch co-founder spent years arguing that startup insurance needed a new carrier. A consequential decision was admitting the market had changed - and rebuilding the company around a different answer.
Gideon Dushku Is Learning to Sell the Invisible
Before startup insurance, there were fantasy maps, cut-out mountains and a six-foot papier-mâché arch. The same instinct runs through Gideon Dushku’s work now: make an abstract thing visible, useful and memorable.
Sam Hodges
Sam Hodges is co-founder and CEO of Vouch Insurance, a tech-enabled insurance platform built specifically for high-growth startups and venture-backed companies. A serial fintech entrepreneur with 20+ years at the intersection of technology and financial services, Hodges previously co-founded and led the U.S. operations of Funding Circle to a 2018 London Stock Exchange IPO. He holds an MBA and MS from Stanford and a magna cum laude degree from Brown University, and is a Fellow of the inaugural Finance Leaders Fellowship at the Aspen Institute. Under his leadership, Vouch has raised over $229M in total funding, serves 6,000+ companies, and completed a Series D round in early 2025 alongside its acquisition of StartSure Insurance Services.