Rahul is the Startup lead at Accenture’s FinTech Innovation Lab in London.
Prior to joining Accenture, he was an Insurance Product Manager at Laka Insurance, a London headquartered early stage InsurTech start-up which recently won at the British Insurance Awards 2019.
Rahul holds a master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Warwick.
He is an Ambassador at the Asia InsurTech podcast.
The second half of June had some exciting news coming out of Malaysia with the largest investment yet into a Malaysian fintech. Axiata Group announced a strategic investment of US$ 70 Million by Great Eastern into Boost Holdings Sdn Bhd. Boost Holding currently has several startups in its portfolio including e-wallet business Boost, microfinancing and […]
Introduction The “digital bank” bug seems to bitten everyone – from Venture Capitalists to industry veterans to regulators & lawyers. Hong Kong’s digital banking licensing regime has created a lot of noise in the press & online communities. However, I’ve found there is limited discussion of the “digital insurance” licensing regime in Hong Kong. The […]
June started with lots of InsurTech news from familiar faces. Go! Insurance announced pre-seed funding and the launch of Thailand’s first insurance platform that allows purchasing health insurance online with automated underwriting. DocDoc has announced a new partnership with a Chinese insurance risk control company Kaitaiming Technology (KTM). KTM will give access to DocDoc’s doctor […]
Upon hearing that Munich Re Ventures is rumoured to be investing $60M-$70M into Acko Insurance at a valuation between $400M to $500M [1], I couldn’t control my excitement – I’ve been following Acko since its $12M Series B funding from Amazon [2] in 2018. This write-up is split into two parts: The high-level overview Company growth data Introduction […]