Jan Kastory

Founding Partner @astorya_vc | #earlystage #insurance #Europe | Never gives up on a ❄️ powder day! ⛷🏄🏼‍♂️ | ex-cofounder @EulerHermesDA

[Jan Kastory @JanKastory]

@lindseyvonn We cheered you from Poland 🇵🇱. We are so devastated by your accident. Get better!!! 🫶🏼You’re a heroine to our 4 yo daughter 💪🏼

[Jan Kastory @JanKastory]

@FGraillot #P2Pinsurance and #ondemandinsurance haven't made it to the Slope of Enlightenment but rather sunk in the Trough of Disillusionment :P Wondering what will happen to direct-to-consumer insurtech MGAs vs embedded insurtech MGAs.

[Jan Kastory @JanKastory]

@amyrlewin Hi @amyrlewin coffee 14:30/15 in a very nice place Fabryka Norblina?

[Florian Graillot @FGraillot]

What happens when the VC market is frozen ?

Well, I had a look at every InsurTech startups that announced a round in 2021 (i.e. 18-24 months ago) and how their teams have evolved.

In average the have downsized their teams by -15.5%.

[Florian Graillot @FGraillot]

Here we are in the European InsurTech scene too 📉

The drop in VC money is eventually having an impact on startups' teams.

And there are two patterns spotted among Series A / B startups :

1) those that had no other choice have removed employees (the pattern is ~20%) ;

2) the most performing and / or those that raised money more recently have rather stopped new hires.

In both cases that's what we spotted in the US tech market last year.

(Source: LinkedIn. Note that the scale is not the same on the two charts and I removed raw figures to avoid spotting which startups they are coming from, as the idea is to illustrate a pattern rather than highlight X or Y player)

[Cashless.pl @Cashlesspl]

Raport "Insurtechy w Polsce, vol. 2" już dostępny. Jego prezentacji towarzyszyła debata branżowych ekspertów https://t.co/8GNs2iDB2N @PunktaPL @secfense_team @GrupaPZU @astorya_vc

[Florian Graillot @FGraillot]

Dans moins d'un mois (5-6/10) retrouvons nous à Niort à l'occasion du INNN

Le premier évènement 100% #InsurTech en France

Que vous soyez corporate, fournisseur de tech ou startup, c'est l'occasion d'interagir avec la scène #AssurTech sur l'innovation dans l'assurance

#FinTech

[Alexey Navalny @navalny]

1/14 How an ordinary Russian TV viewer (one of whom I currently am) sees it.

I learned about the monstrous events in Bucha yesterday morning from the news that Russia was convening the UN Security Council in connection with the massacre by Ukrainian Nazis in Bucha.

[Anastasiia Lapatina @lapatina_]

Ukrainian mothers are writing their family contacts on the bodies of their children in case they get killed and the child survives. And Europe is still discussing gas.

[Jan Kastory @JanKastory]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Exen 🇵🇱 @Exen]

WTF is happening in Germany? I guarantee none of these cars would be in a drivable condition if this took place in Poland...

[Jan Kastory @JanKastory]

@DSLab_Ukraine could it be helpful to you? https://t.co/ztMANpSlfk

[Dmytro Shynkaruk @ShynkarukDmytro]

Enjoy russian art, it kills.
#RussianWarCrimes
#GenocideOfUkrainians

[Easy Rider @EasyRid04682094]

For those surprised by pictures from Bucha, a little 🧵

1570. Ivan the Terrible terminates autonomy of Veliky Novgorod. Women and children were massacred, churches burnt and looted. About 20 thousand people died, numerous were deported. Following famine did the rest.

[astorya.vc @astorya_vc]

Let's meet today at #InsurTechInsights in the UK 🇬🇧, we'll moderate a startup pitch session, and discuss how technology could help incumbents revamp the claim process around climate risks. #InsurTech #FinTech

🎟️ Join us: https://t.co/kEO3bHxxDC

[Michel de Guilhermier @mitchdeg]

"The worst business model ever created was rapid grocery delivery" 😂 https://t.co/pfwrG2G5X8

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Mariupol. Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital. People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror? Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you seem to be losing humanity.

[Bajuwandres @Bajuwandres]

@costakonti1 @DavidSacks The Budapest Memorandum, signed and now breached by Russia, covered this already.

Hence the mistrust.

https://t.co/vaSDoiwMOc

[Tomasz Wróblewski @tomaawroblewski]

Marki, które wciąż działają w Rosji;
Oni wybrali, Ty też możesz
Auchan
BASF
Bayer
Bosch
Burger King
Henkel
KFC
LG
Nestle
McDonald's
Metro AG
Miele
Pepsico
Pirelli
Starbucks
Stellantis
Swatch

[Stuart Dowell @StuartDowell_]

This was the week when over 100 million Poles, Ukrainians, Romanians, Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians shouted at the West "We told you so!"