FOCUS AREAS

Investing as a Corporate VC

As a Corporate VC, we are focused on investing and partnering with startups where there is mutual benefit between the startup and the corporate. Specifically for us (IAG), we are interested in startups who can disrupt and add value along the insurance value chain. These startups tend to fall into three categories:

FOCUS AREAS

Investing as a Corporate VC

As a Corporate VC, we are focused on investing and partnering with startups where there is mutual benefit between the startup and the corporate. Specifically for us (IAG), we are interested in startups who can disrupt and add value along the insurance value chain. These startups tend to fall into three categories:

Emerging technologies

Advanced technologies that transform the insurance value chain or deliver a better customer experience. This includes artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer vision and imagery, IoT and sensors, enhanced reality technologies.

Unique applications of data

Unique datasets or interesting applications of data that help us to better understand our customers, risk parameters and assets. Alternatively, infrastructure and analytical capabilities that help us organise, manage and analyse large datasets.

Disruptive business models

Business models and adjacencies that disrupt and enhance how IAG delivers core product lines to customers. This includes novel solutions across insurtech, fintech, cyber security, proptech, climate tech, transport and mobility.

Specific technology areas we are interested in

Opportunity to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to deliver new customer experiences and unlock value across the insurance value chain.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Opportunities that can help IAG better manage and govern the use of data across the company. This can drive better business processes and improved outcomes through more effective decision making.

Data & Analytics

Opportunities that enable insurance use cases through the use of Internet of Things (IoT), sensors and telematics.

IoT, Sensors & Telematics

Opportunities that use computer vision or data imagery to facilitate insurance use cases and complement our existing portfolio of computer vision investments.

Computer Vision & Imagery

Opportunities that provide FinTech capabilities which can be leveraged by IAG.

FinTech

Opportunities that provide cyber security solutions that can be leveraged by either IAG or customers for risk mitigation.

Cyber

Opportunities that help IAG to better assess, predict and mitigate climate risks & natural perils, as well as the capability to better monitor IAG’s carbon footprint.

Climate Tech

Emerging technologies

Advanced technologies that transform the insurance value chain or deliver a better customer experience. This includes artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer vision and imagery, IoT and sensors, enhanced reality technologies.

Unique applications of data

Unique datasets or interesting applications of data that help us to better understand our customers, risk parameters and assets. Alternatively, infrastructure and analytical capabilities that help us organise, manage and analyse large datasets.

Disruptive business models

Business models and adjacencies that disrupt and enhance how IAG delivers core product lines to customers. This includes novel solutions across insurtech, fintech, cyber security, proptech, climate tech, transport and mobility.

Specific technology areas we are interested in

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Opportunity to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to deliver new customer experiences and unlock value across the insurance value chain.

Data & Analytics

Opportunities that can help IAG better manage and govern the use of data across the company. This can drive better business processes and improved outcomes through more effective decision making.

IoT, Sensors & Telematics

Opportunities that enable insurance use cases through the use of Internet of Things (IoT), sensors and telematics.

Computer Vision & Imagery

Opportunities that use computer vision or data imagery to facilitate insurance use cases and complement our existing portfolio of computer vision investments.

FinTech

Opportunities that provide FinTech capabilities which can be leveraged by IAG.

Cyber

Opportunities that provide cyber security solutions that can be leveraged by either IAG or customers for risk mitigation.

Climate Tech

Opportunities that help IAG to better assess, predict and mitigate climate risks & natural perils, as well as the capability to better monitor IAG’s carbon footprint.

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