Nico Laqua & Emily Yuan, Corgi Founders on AI Native Insurance
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
-
Narrated by:
-
By:
About this listen
Nico Laqua is the CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Corgi (YC S24), the first fully automated AI-native insurance carrier based in San Francisco, aiming to rebuild the $1T+ industry through compute-speed underwriting, claims processing, and modular coverage like D&O, Cyber, General Liability, and innovative AI Liability for tech glitches. Previously, he founded Basket Entertainment, scaling a gaming portfolio to 200M+ monthly active users—reaching 25-50% of teens in Western markets—after serving as founding engineer at Green Mountain Aquaculture with Nobel Laureate Dr. Hamilton Smith. A Columbia neuroscience and computational biology graduate from Lithuanian immigrant roots, Nico pivoted from gaming to insurance post-ChatGPT, acquiring a licensed carrier for $35M and leveraging LLMs for regulatory bare-metal efficiencyEmily Yuan is the Co-Founder and COO of Corgi (YC S24), an AI-powered insurance carrier transforming the industry through fully automated underwriting and claims processing. Based in San Francisco, Emily is a Stanford computer science dropout who began building companies at 20, previously co-founding Picnic and serving as COO of Basket Entertainment, where she helped scale mobile gaming studios to over 200 million monthly players across 100+ titles. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in Consumer Tech, Emily brings deep expertise in operations, talent-dense team building, and identifying breakout opportunities at the intersection of AI, fintech, and consumer technology.Topics: AI-driven disruption in insurance and automation scalingFull AI Underwriting: Claims Paid in Seconds, Not WeeksAcquiring carriers and automating $1T industry with LLMs#AIforGood #TechInInsurance #TechFounders #YCAlumni #MachineLearning #RegTech