# Scouting for Growth Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831.md RSS feed: https://feed.podbean.com/sabinega/feed.xml Official site: https://sabinega.podbean.com Author: Sabine VanderLinden Episodes: 233 ## Resource There are over 180,000 FinTech ventures out there today. My team tracks 7.3 million of them across markets every single week. But the number that matters isn’t the one that’s growing. It’s the one that isn’t. Only 25% of these ventures have secured funding and meaningful backing. The other 75% aren’t just looking for capital. They’re looking for access, credibility, and partnerships with the institutions that can turn a great product into real-world impact. This is Scouting for Growth. I’m Sabine VanderLinden. I lead Alchemy Crew Ventures, and I built the Venture-Client Model for regulated industries... the model where a growth venture earns a corporation as its customer before a VC writes the cheque. When that sequence works, it changes the equation for everyone: founders, corporates, and the investors watching from both sides of the table. Each episode, I bring a founder, an operator, or an institutional leader to the table for the conversation that usually happens behind closed doors: about how corporates really think, how capital really flows, and what it actually takes to build, grow, and scale in a world where the boundaries between FinTech, InsurTech, HealthTech, and AI are… ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scouting-for-growth-4686831 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831.md ## Episodes - [Carlos Falcón: Rebuilding the Insurance Core for AI, Venture Scouting and the Frontier Firm](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/carlos-falc-n-rebuilding-the-insurance-core-for-ai-venture-scouting-and-the-frontier-firm) — 2026-07-30T07:00:00+00:00 - [Reggie Townsend: Making Responsible AI Irresistible](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/reggie-townsend-making-responsible-ai-irresistible) — 2026-07-16T07:00:00+00:00 - [Dale Diamond: When a $25K Claim Becomes a $7M Verdict or More](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/dale-diamond-when-a-25k-claim-becomes-a-7m-verdict-or-more) — 2026-07-02T07:00:00+00:00 - [Willem Paling: From Messy Middles to Autonomous Agents and the Race for Trust at Scale](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/willem-paling-from-messy-middles-to-autonomous-agents-and-the-race-for-trust-at-scale) — 2026-06-25T07:00:00+00:00 - [Patrick Van Deven: The Frontier Firm's Moat isn't Data. It's The Layer that Governs It.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/patrick-van-deven-the-frontier-firm-s-moat-isn-t-data-it-s-the-layer-that-governs-it) — 2026-06-11T07:00:00+00:00 - [Brad Wetherall: AI Search, Agentic AI, and How Corporations Must Adapt to Digital Discovery](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/brad-wetherall-ai-search-agentic-ai-and-how-corporations-must-adapt-to-digital-discovery) — 2026-06-04T07:00:00+00:00 - [The App Era Is Over: Wallet-Native Insurance & the Agentic Frontier — Marc Lampe × Ernesto Suarez Talk Collaboration](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/the-app-era-is-over-wallet-native-insurance-the-agentic-frontier-marc-lampe-ernesto-suarez-talk-collaboration) — 2026-05-28T07:00:00+00:00 - [David Daiches: Inside INSHUR — From Manhattan Uber Rides to Insuring Autonomous Fleets](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/david-daiches-inside-inshur-from-manhattan-uber-rides-to-insuring-autonomous-fleets) — 2026-05-21T07:00:00+00:00 - [Alan Martin: Why Insurers Who Invest in Wellness Win — The Healthcare Innovation Playbook still works](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/alan-martin-why-insurers-who-invest-in-wellness-win-the-healthcare-innovation-playbook-still-works) — 2026-05-14T07:00:00+00:00 - [Xavier Lestrade: From Insurance to Personalized Care Pathways: The New Blueprint for Growth](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/xavier-lestrade-from-insurance-to-personalized-care-pathways-the-new-blueprint-for-growth) — 2026-05-07T07:04:00+00:00 - [From Org Charts to Work Charts: What the MIT Frontier Firm Paper Means for Insurance, Finance & Risk](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/from-org-charts-to-work-charts-what-the-mit-frontier-firm-paper-means-for-insurance-finance-risk) — 2026-04-30T07:00:00+00:00 - [The Risk Intelligence Gap: How Exposure Data Deficiency Is Reshaping Property Underwriting](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/the-risk-intelligence-gap-how-exposure-data-deficiency-is-reshaping-property-underwriting) — 2026-04-23T07:00:00+00:00 - [Trust Is the Operating System of the Agentic Enterprise](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/trust-is-the-operating-system-of-the-agentic-enterprise) — 2026-04-09T07:00:00+00:00 - [The Capacity Gap](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/the-capacity-gap) — 2026-03-26T08:00:00+00:00 - [Florian Graillot: How Intelligence on Tap and Agent-Human Teams Are Redesigning Risk](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/florian-graillot-how-intelligence-on-tap-and-agent-human-teams-are-redesigning-risk) — 2026-03-12T08:00:00+00:00 - [Karl Grandl: The Intelligent Experience Layer Re-Architected](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/karl-grandl-the-intelligent-experience-layer-re-architected) — 2026-03-05T11:47:24+00:00 - [Manish Shah: The Intelligent Core — How AI Is Redefining Insurance from the Inside Out](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/manish-shah-the-intelligent-core-how-ai-is-redefining-insurance-from-the-inside-out) — 2026-02-26T08:00:00+00:00 - [Gil Arazi: Redesigning Insurance Through Prevention, Risk, Growth, and Trust](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/gil-arazi-redesigning-insurance-through-prevention-risk-growth-and-trust) — 2026-02-19T08:00:00+00:00 - [The Frontier Firm Playbook: How Leaders Are Building Agentic Enterprises at Scale](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/the-frontier-firm-playbook-how-leaders-are-building-agentic-enterprises-at-scale) — 2026-02-12T09:00:00+00:00 - [Sangha Penesetti: Reinventing Enterprise’s Future Through Flexible Work](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/sangha-penesetti-reinventing-enterprise-s-future-through-flexible-work) — 2025-12-25T00:00:00+00:00 - [Marinela Profi: Building the Trust Frontier or How Agentic AI Is Redefining Enterprise Decision-Making](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/marinela-profi-building-the-trust-frontier-or-how-agentic-ai-is-redefining-enterprise-decision-making) — 2025-12-18T00:00:00+00:00 - [Andrei Craciunescu: Redesigning Insurance for the AI-Powered Startup Era](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/andrei-craciunescu-redesigning-insurance-for-the-ai-powered-startup-era) — 2025-12-04T00:00:00+00:00 - [Rob Schimek: Redesigning for a Connected Future](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/rob-schimek-redesigning-for-a-connected-future) — 2025-11-27T00:00:00+00:00 - [Trust-by-Design: Lessons from the AI Frontier](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/trust-by-design-lessons-from-the-ai-frontier) — 2025-11-20T00:00:00+00:00 - [Stephen Brittain: Why Venture-Client Models Are Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Innovation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/stephen-brittain-why-venture-client-models-are-rewriting-the-rules-of-corporate-innovation) — 2025-11-13T00:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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