Ottonova: Germany's All-Digital Health Insurer

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Previously titled “Follow-Up with the All-Digital Health Insurer Ottonova” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 10, 2026

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Recorded04 Aug 2021

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The Founder This interview is an overdue follow-up with ottonova, the first German health insurer founded in almost 20 years. Roman Rittweger (https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanrittweger/) is the CEO and Founder of ottonova, not an insurtech, but a fully licensed insurer (https://www.ottonova.de/). Roman had a long and successful career, before founding ottonova. As he says in the interview, in insurance everything takes longer. Roman is a doctor by training, with a Ph.D. in medicine, as well as an MBA from INSEAD. He also served as Platoon Leader in the German mountain troopers and was a consultant with ATKearney and McKinsey, before starting his own companies. He is also a member of the supervisory board of naontek AG, a corporate startup offering digital services to health professionals. When you are a private health insurer in Germany, you basically live forever. Roman Rittweger, CEO and Founder of ottonova We do not report all our funding rounds instantly. We raised more money than is on CrunchBase. Roman Rittweger, CEO and Founder of ottonova Venture Capital Funding So far ottonova has raised more than 90 mn US$ up to Series D (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ottonova-holding-ag) and is a licensed health (re-) insurer in Germany. ottonova will start new talks for a growth equity talks end of 2021. We are a full stack insurer, but we also have a re-insurance license. Roman Rittweger, CEO and Founder of ottonova The Audio Interview from 2017 The original interview – the first English interview of ottonova – was published on September 14th, 2017. https://www.startuprad.io/interviews/exclusive-first-english-interview-newly-founded-digital-health-insurer-ottonova/ Links and Show Notes Find all links and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/follow-up-with-the-all-digital-health-insurer-ottonova/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fintechgermany/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fintechgermany/support This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podder - https://www.podderapp.com/privacy-policy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

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