Brands+Startups has partnered with RGAx, FinTank, and our location host, DePaul's Coleman Center for Entrepreneurship to give you a first-hand look into the innovations impacting the insurance industry, the growing Chicago Fintech space, and a chance to network with fellow entrepreneurs in Fintech – right in downtown.
RGAx is leading the “next big thing” in insurance. As the corporate innovation arm of the Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), RGAx works with a diverse community of partners to reimagine, rethink, and reinvent how life insurance is bought and sold in a digital world. Here is your chance to meet the Innovation Manager and her team at one of the largest global life and health insurance reinsurance companies, and hear how they are innovating with startups, as well as to share about how you can bring your ideas to life.
If you are in data analytics, big data, machine learning, AI, digital marketing, web development, web development, HCI or UX, or any emerging technologies – join us on 8/22 for an evening of lively discussion on the innovations that are transforming the insurance industry and how you and your start-up can get involved!
Topics Covered
• How to tell if you are prepared to do business with a reinsurer
• Why do corporations want to do business with startups
• What are the best ways to get a corporation’s attention
• What happens after the pitch and work starts
• The best and worst startup pitches
See you on the 22nd!
- The Brands+Startups Team
About Us
Brands+Startups™ is a post-accelerator "finishing school" that helps startups learn how to pitch to multinational corporations. We offer this as part of our mission to foster economic development within the high-tech startup community in the Heartland of America. Brands+Startups is organized by Heartland Mobile, a Chicago-based non-profit. We are 100% run by volunteers.
About Our Partners
RGAx, formed in 2015, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA) with a focus on building and accelerating transformational businesses in the life insurance industry. Working with a diverse community of partners, they develop businesses that bring value to insurance companies, consumers, and distribution entities. Its mission is to transform the industry by creating tools, data, products, and digital platforms to scale and accelerate consumer-centric businesses in the insurance market. To learn more, visit http://www.rgax.com/us/.
FinTank is Chicago's newest FinTech incubator and co-working space. Its mission is to provide a physical location for FinTech startups to convene and market their ideas. For investors, FinTank provides a central location to interact with promising new companies serving the financial sector. For members, they provide all the services, mentorships and attention needed to create a successful FinTech company. To learn more, visit https://fintank.org/.
About Our Host Sponsor
The DePaul University Coleman Entrepreneurship Center (CEC)serves as the entrepreneurial hub for DePaul students, faculty, alumni, as well as the broader Chicago community. They advise, inspire, and connect student entrepreneurs from many backgrounds and interests. Programs and events are designed for students throughout the university and many are open to alumni as well as the wider Chicago business community. The CEC is funded in part by The Coleman Foundation, a private independent grant-making organization. To learn more, visit http://colemanent.org/.
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