Lloyd’s of London: Lloyd’s Lab

In Autumn 2018, L Marks partnered with 300-year-old specialist insurance and reinsurance market, Lloyd’s of London, to create Lloyd’s Lab, now the global centre of InsurTech.

Based in a bespoke co-working space within the iconic Lloyd’s building in the City of London, the 10-week insurtech accelerator programme is now in its seventh iteration with the next Lab set to launch in December 2021. 

Lloyd’s Lab brings together the most promising early-stage and growth-stage businesses from around the world and provides them with a unique opportunity to collaborate with the managing agents working at the heart of the Lloyd’s market, as well as Lloyd’s Corporation staff. The selected businesses benefit from the insights, mentorship and practical support of both the market and corporation, allowing them to develop products and services that cater to the current needs and future ambitions of the marketplace. 

As well as producing technologies that have been adopted by a number of managing agents, Lloyd’s Lab has succeeded in inspiring an entrepreneurial ethos throughout the market, becoming the the focal point of the organisation’s wider innovation agenda. 

Now in with 10 companies entering its 7th iteration in September 2021 and with an alumni base of 71 insurtechs, Lloyd’s Lab is not only delivering pioneering products and services for the market but also driving transformation throughout the industry. As a tech hub geared towards entrepreneurial solutions, the Lab has become the focal point for the organisation’s wider innovation agenda.

Addressing the imperative set by Covid-19, alongside the two cohorts in 2020, Lloyd’s Lab also created two additional programmes to respond to different aspects of the global pandemic, from customer support and economic recovery in the short term to building resilience in the market in view of future waves of the virus and crises on a similar scale.

Lloyd’s Lab continues to achieve successes for the insurtechs, for Lloyd’s, and for the Lloyd’s market. The Lloyd’s Lab alumni have raised over $250 million since joining the lab and over 75% of the startups that have joined Lloyd’s Lab have achieved commercial deployment across the market.  These include Optalitix that is saving more than 13,000 hours of data entry per year for the market and Parsyl that partnered with Lloyd’s to create Syndicate 1796 to insure the transportation of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Results

As we continue gather further data from 2021, here’s a recap of we’ve already achieved with Cohorts 1-4:

Participation

•Over the first three cohorts 32 out of a total of 55 managing agents took part in Lloyd’s Lab by providing mentoring to at least one business.

•Taken together, Lloyd’s Lab events to date have been attended by 52 out of a total of 55 managing agent.

Outcomes

•75% of Lloyd’s Lab alumni continue to actively engage with the market via one of the following methods: an agreed paid proof of concept; another commercial arrangement; ongoing commercial conversations; or continuing engagement with mentors.

Accolades

•2020 Reactions London Market Awards ‘Insurtech Incubator of the Year’

•2019 Reactions London Market Awards ‘Insurtech Incubator of the Year’

•Finalist in Insurance Times Tech and Innovation Awards 2019 ‘Technology Partner of the Year – Underwriting’

•Identified as one of best corporate accelerators in the UK by Beauhurst

Parsyl

Parsyl’s supply chain management platform helps shippers, retailers and insurers understand the conditions that will maintain the quality of sensitive and perishable goods as they move through the supply chain.