Jan Kastory (@jankastory) 's Twitter Profile
Jan Kastory

@jankastory

Founding Partner @astorya_vc | #earlystage #insurance #Europe | Never gives up on a ❄️ powder day! ⛷🏄🏼‍♂️ | ex-cofounder @EulerHermesDA

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Bogdan Kulynych @ NeurIPS (@hiddenmarkov) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New (to me) dimension of crowdwork platforms: Russian military uses Premise microtasking platform to aim and calibrate fire during their invasion of Ukraine. Example tasks are to locate ports, medical facilities, bridges, explosion craters. Paying ¢0.25 to $3.25 a task.

New (to me) dimension of crowdwork platforms:
Russian military uses Premise microtasking platform to aim and calibrate fire during their invasion of Ukraine. Example tasks are to locate ports, medical facilities, bridges, explosion craters. Paying ¢0.25 to $3.25 a task.
Simon Taylor (@sytaylor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Ultimate SWIFT and Russia Sanctions explainer You've probably been reading lots of people explaining SWIFT, but most explainers miss some key details like 👇 1. SWIFT is not a payment system. SWIFT is a messaging system (like email) used by 11,000 banks in 200+ countries

Stuart Dowell (@stuartdowell_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This was the week when over 100 million Poles, Ukrainians, Romanians, Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians shouted at the West "We told you so!"

Tomasz Wróblewski (@tomaawroblewski) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Marki, które wciąż działają w Rosji; Oni wybrali, Ty też możesz Auchan BASF Bayer Bosch Burger King Henkel KFC LG Nestle McDonald's Metro AG Miele Pepsico Pirelli Starbucks Stellantis Swatch

Bajuwandres (@bajuwandres) 's Twitter Profile Photo

costa David Sacks The Budapest Memorandum, signed and now breached by Russia, covered this already. Hence the mistrust. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_…

<a href="/costakonti1/">costa</a> <a href="/DavidSacks/">David Sacks</a> The Budapest Memorandum, signed and now breached by Russia, covered this already.

Hence the mistrust.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_…
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@zelenskyyua) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mariupol. Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital. People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror? Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you seem to be losing humanity.

astorya.vc (@astorya_vc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Let's meet today at #InsurTechInsights in the UK 🇬🇧, we'll moderate a startup pitch session, and discuss how technology could help incumbents revamp the claim process around climate risks. #InsurTech #FinTech 🎟️ Join us: buff.ly/3I8NqaA

Let's meet today at #InsurTechInsights in the UK 🇬🇧, we'll moderate a startup pitch session, and discuss how technology could help incumbents revamp the claim process around climate risks. #InsurTech #FinTech

🎟️ Join us: buff.ly/3I8NqaA
Easy Rider (@easyrid04682094) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For those surprised by pictures from Bucha, a little 🧵 1570. Ivan the Terrible terminates autonomy of Veliky Novgorod. Women and children were massacred, churches burnt and looted. About 20 thousand people died, numerous were deported. Following famine did the rest.

For those surprised by pictures from Bucha, a little 🧵

1570. Ivan the Terrible terminates autonomy of Veliky Novgorod. Women and children were massacred, churches burnt and looted. About 20 thousand people died, numerous were deported. Following famine did the rest.
Exen 🇵🇱 (@exen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

WTF is happening in Germany? I guarantee none of these cars would be in a drivable condition if this took place in Poland...

Anastasiia Lapatina (@lapatina_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ukrainian mothers are writing their family contacts on the bodies of their children in case they get killed and the child survives. And Europe is still discussing gas.

Ukrainian mothers are writing their family contacts on the bodies of their children in case they get killed and the child survives. And Europe is still discussing gas.
Alexey Navalny (@navalny) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1/14 How an ordinary Russian TV viewer (one of whom I currently am) sees it. I learned about the monstrous events in Bucha yesterday morning from the news that Russia was convening the UN Security Council in connection with the massacre by Ukrainian Nazis in Bucha.

Florian Graillot (@fgraillot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dans moins d'un mois (5-6/10) retrouvons nous à Niort à l'occasion du INNN Le premier évènement 100% #InsurTech en France Que vous soyez corporate, fournisseur de tech ou startup, c'est l'occasion d'interagir avec la scène #AssurTech sur l'innovation dans l'assurance #FinTech

Dans moins d'un mois (5-6/10) retrouvons nous à Niort à l'occasion du INNN

Le premier évènement 100% #InsurTech en France

Que vous soyez corporate, fournisseur de tech ou startup, c'est l'occasion d'interagir avec la scène #AssurTech sur l'innovation dans l'assurance

#FinTech
Florian Graillot (@fgraillot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Here we are in the European InsurTech scene too 📉 The drop in VC money is eventually having an impact on startups' teams. And there are two patterns spotted among Series A / B startups : 1) those that had no other choice have removed employees (the pattern is ~20%) ; 2) the

Here we are in the European InsurTech scene too 📉

The drop in VC money is eventually having an impact on startups' teams. 

And there are two patterns spotted among Series A / B startups :

1) those that had no other choice have removed employees (the pattern is ~20%) ;

2) the
Florian Graillot (@fgraillot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What happens when the VC market is frozen ? Well, I had a look at every InsurTech startups that announced a round in 2021 (i.e. 18-24 months ago) and how their teams have evolved. In average the have downsized their teams by -15.5%.

What happens when the VC market is frozen ?

Well, I had a look at every InsurTech startups that announced a round in 2021 (i.e. 18-24 months ago) and how their teams have evolved.

In average the have downsized their teams by -15.5%.