Alchemy Crew Ventures

About Alchemy Crew Ventures

Insurance is not being disrupted. It is being rebuilt, and adoption is where that rebuild succeeds or stalls. Alchemy Crew Ventures helps insurers, reinsurers and regulated enterprises turn promising technology into adopted technology. Not another pilot. Not another proof of concept parked after the steering group. Capability that reaches production, passes governance, and shows up in the numbers. We have evaluated more than 400 ventures and seen 162 adopted, through programmes including the Zurich Innovation Championship and ERGO ScaleHub. That evidence base is the difference between an opinion about innovation and a method for it. Our work runs on DIVAAA, our venture clienting methodology: Discover, Investigate, Validate, Adopt, Activate, Amplify, across 14 governance gates. It is built for markets where Solvency II, DORA and the AI Act are the operating conditions, not the objections. What we publish here, every week: Venture Clienting Mythbusters. One belief the market holds about adoption, one number from our evaluation base that contradicts it, one thing to do differently. Tuesdays. Alongside it: research from the Risk Futures Lab, operating intelligence on the Frontier Firm and the Intelligence Layer, and field notes on agentic AI adoption where governance is designed in rather than bolted on. Who this is for. Innovation, technology and transformation leaders inside carriers. Operators deciding what to scale next quarter. Founders who need to understand how a regulated buyer actually says yes. Partners building the ecosystem around them. The Protection Gap will not close through capital alone, and the Frontier Firm will not arrive through pilots. Both need adoption at pace, governed by design, and led by people. Follow the page for the weekly evidence. Read the long form thinking in the Alchemy Crew Journal. Founded by Sabine VanderLinden. London, and wherever the work is.