We Saw 1,500 Insurtech Deals and Invested in 12: Here‘s Why. (w/Bill Keogh, COO Eos Venture Partners)

Bill Keogh COO at Eos Venture Partners a global strategic VC Fund focused on #insurtech.

Bill comes from industry, having spent 15 years in underwriting and saw the early iterations of catastrophe risk modeling from the 1990s on. 

The big idea behind Eos is they seek to have a positive impact on the lives of half a billion people by closing the protection gap, making insurance better, more accessible and affordable.

Eos invests exclusively in early-stage Series A insurtechs, lead the round and take a board seat. Their focus is currently on cyber risk.

The team focuses on the leadership qualities of the founders, their sales and capital-raise ability and their technology.  They do not invest in pure tech sales to insurance companies, instead seeking companies with objectives that help a certain segment of customers like Buckle. 

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Bill will be speaking at the next Insurtech NY event on November 16 in NYC. He is Chief Operating Officer and an Operating Partner at Eos Venture Partners focused on due diligence and business building with portfolio investments. Prior to joining Eos, Bill worked in a variety of leadership roles in the insurance and insuretech sectors, most recently as Chairman and CEO of Advisen. As Global Group Executive at RMS and then President of EQECAT, Bill played a leading role promoting adoption of catastrophe risk models in the insurance industry. During his career Bill has worked and lived in New York, London and Vienna. He has worked with clients and managed teams globally.

Bill is also non-executive chair of The Institutes RiskStream Collaborative, developing and promoting the adoption of distributed ledger and blockchain solutions in the insurance industry and related ecosystems.