🎙️ NEW EPISODE: We Are InsurTech Women
This week Charlotte Gregory is joined by Megan Bingham-Walker, co-founder and CEO of Anansi, for her first ever in-person podcast recording.
From government energy policy to venture capital to machine learning to an e-commerce business selling stainless steel straws, Megan's path to insurtech was anything but conventional.
In this conversation, Megan shares:
✅ How selling stainless steel straws online exposed her to a huge gap in small business insurance — and led her to found Anansi
✅ Why she chose to focus Anansi on one problem, shipping insurance, rather than spreading across a diverse product range — despite people calling it \"niche\" (it's a $60bn market)
✅ The hard data behind female founders and venture capital, and why \"restrictive vs. expansive\" investor questioning, not a pipeline problem, is the real barrier
✅ A genuine allyship story, starting with a cold email to one of Anansi's earliest investors
✅ How her team has upskilled to build their own AI agents, and why she sees AI as an opportunity rather than a threat
It's a conversation about staying laser-focused on a single problem, the systemic issues still holding back female founders, and why normalising failure might be the insurance industry's next big cultural shift.
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