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Nektarios Liolios

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
174 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

So they started off as a price comparison website for moving firms, and they realized that sitting on this amazing data, they are a lot more accurate than what insurers usually have when they insure home content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

So their solution is now a data provider solution to the industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

No, no, they're selling to the actual insurance carriers who are the organizations that provide content insurance, home content insurance to the consumers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

So our program is funded by the industry players who participate in this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

So when we have 10 banks in one program or in the InsurTech program, we've got 17 InsurTech partners, insurance industry players who put money into the program.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

So for us, this is really what funds the program, what gives us the money to pay the salaries, to give the cash to the teams, etc., etc.,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

and we really see this as a tool for the industry on the one side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

So we don't really necessarily build these programs to make money out of this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

This is not what drives us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

We keep usually 1% to 2% of the equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

And if one day, further down the track, one of these companies is going to grow big, we'll have some upside, but it will be so diluted that even that is not necessarily what drives us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

It's really to be that glue between the two sides.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

It sounds altruistic because to a large extent it is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

For them, it's corporate innovation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

Yeah, totally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

The reason the banks, the reason insurers are doing this is

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

visibility to seeing what trends are out there, what really do they need to know about, what's the latest in blockchain, what's the latest in AI, et cetera.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

What do you think?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 622: This FinTech Accelerator Has Helped 60 Companies, Linking Industry with Startups with $17k Investment with Nektarios Liolios

See, I think there's some fundamental questions around if robo-advice in itself is a sustainable business.