{"podcast":{"title":"Scouting for Growth","slug":"scouting-for-growth-4686831","podcast_index_feed_id":4686831,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/sabinega/feed.xml","website_url":"https://sabinega.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/21959862/c84aea4ad531642db775e0d7782c8f77.jpg","author":"Sabine VanderLinden","episode_count":233,"summary":"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…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T16:17:45.012213+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831"},"episode":{"title":"Trust-by-Design: Lessons from the AI Frontier","slug":"trust-by-design-lessons-from-the-ai-frontier","published_at":"2025-11-20T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/trust-by-design-lessons-from-the-ai-frontier","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831","url":"https://sabinega.podbean.com/e/trust-by-design-lessons-from-the-ai-frontier/","audio_url":"https://cohst.app/pdcst/6K4Q1I/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ph7oeosquewdb33e/pdcst_6K4Q1I_traffic_megaphone_fm_USVL2403750539.mp3","summary":"On this episode of Scouting For Growth, Sabine VdL flips the mic inward. After dozens of conversations with AI builders, insurance innovators, and enterprise leaders navigating transformation at full speed, she shares the real pattern she’s seen across the industry: AI isn’t just changing our tools. It’s changing our temperament. From founders simplifying chaotic insurance back offices to Fortune 500 teams wrestling with governance, regulation, and talent shortages, this episode is Sabine’s sharp, human (and very actionable) reflection on what actually drives successful AI adoption—and what quietly kills it. The hidden truth: resistance isn’t where you think Sabine opens with a story that stops most leaders in their tracks. When Branch Insurance introduced AI into claims, the pushback didn’t come from customers. It came from the adjusters. Not because the AI made mistakes… but because it didn’t. That moment reveals a leadership challenge many underestimate: AI doesn’t just automate tasks. It reshapes identity, confidence, and control. And if you don’t manage the human side, the tech side won’t matter. Governance isn’t the brake. It’s the steering wheel. Another standout lesson comes from Lisa Bechtold, formerly leading AI governance at Zurich Insurance (now at Nestlé). Her team faced the classic dilemma: move fast or move right. Her answer reframes the whole debate: Governance doesn’t slow innovation—it enables trust at speed. In the AI era, the best-run organizations won’t be the ones with the biggest models. They’ll be the ones with the clearest accountability. The real pilot-to-production gap is human Sabine also revisits the collaboration between ERGO Group and CamCom, an Indian startup using computer vision to assess vehicle damage from photos or drones. The techn…","meta_description":"On this episode of Scouting For Growth, Sabine VdL flips the mic inward. After dozens of conversations with AI builders, insurance innovators, and enterpr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1090,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scouting-for-growth-4686831/episodes/trust-by-design-lessons-from-the-ai-frontier/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/trust-by-design-lessons-from-the-ai-frontier.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}