Sabine VanderLinden

Alchemy Crew Ventures

Delivering R&D and Adoption Labs that accelerate, industrialize, and democratize how tech ventures collaborate with corporations. Our labs use acceleration, co-creation, and commercialization frameworks to de-risk corporate–venture partnerships, enabling insurers and financial institutions to grow and scale venture-led initiatives with confidence.

We also systematize engagement models for a select group of high-growth ventures, helping them navigate and win with enterprise partners. Our work spans two core pillars:

Venturing — scouting, validating, and scaling corporate–startup collaborations.
Media — amplifying voices, insights, and ecosystems that drive adoption at scale.

Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer & Venture-Client Partner

Bayes Business School

Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow within the Faculty of Management of The Bayes Business School (formerly Cass). Working directly with Professor Gianvito Lanzolla on the topics of corporate venturing, business model innovation, disruptive innovation, and the commercialization of effective tech platforms to identify the replicable and sustainable winning criteria of growth ventures.

Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Management, The Business School (formerly Cass)

The CareVoice

The CareVoice is on a mission to make insurance more human, with health at its core! As a leading health insurtech company, The CareVoice offers CareVoiceOS, the first healthcare operating system for insurers, creating an ecosystem that transforms member experiences. Their innovative, mobile-based, data-driven SaaS platform empowers insurers with unparalleled digital solutions, enabling them to reach untapped markets swiftly and create bespoke health customer journeys to revolutionize the health insurance industry and foster deeper connections for improved health outcomes!

Chairperson of the Advisory Board

ACORD Solutions Group

Chairperson of the ACORD Solution Group Board

Chairperson of the Board

Business Insurance

Business Insurance Women to Watch Awards & Leadership Conference is a prestigious annual event celebrating the achievements of leading women in the commercial insurance and risk management sector. Scheduled during Q4 of the year in the UK and the USA, the Awards recognize leaders and bring together women from every facet of the industry. The conference not only honors their contributions but also provides a platform for networking, professional development, and fostering leadership.

Advisory Board Member

Invest Tokyo

Educating tech ventures on the opportunities available in Japan and Tokyo to enable the City of Tokyo to shape a leading hub for tech ventures. Connect Tech Ventures interested in Tokyo with the local hub.

Tech Ambassador

Mandalore Partners

Complementing Mandalore Partners VC as a Service proposition with digital ecosystem building techniques. Engaging with insurers and financial institutions interested in developing more sustainable corporate venturing initiatives.

Tech Investment Advisor

Scouting for Growth

For the past 10 years, I have helped multiple tech companies (including big tech, startups and scaleups) and investors define growth strategies. This process has led me to sit on boards and advisory boards. It also led me to evaluate the power of social media channels, including LinkedIn, X and Instagram among others. Today, I reach millions of people through my education-driven approach. 

I launched the Scouting for Growth podcast in December 2021 and then pushed the podcast to full swing in 2022. I realized then that only 30 percent of growth ventures received investment from investors, and very few succeeded in commercializing with corporations. 

The Scouting for Growth podcast is produced weekly. It addresses the topics of corporate venturing, collaboration, and investment. It targets tech ventures, investors, and corporate executive leaders seeking to understand the key ingredients of digital transformation and growth in a fast-paced AI world. 

On the podcast, I talk to investors, startups, and innovation leaders. I aim to unearth strategies for success. We reached 1 million downloads in December 2024, and today, the podcast is a top 10 business and entrepreneurship podcast and is listened to in 150 countries.
🎧 Listen to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

Scaleup Advisor | Influencer Marketing | Chief Podcast Officer

The InsurTECH Book

One of three co-editors of bestseller, The INSURTECH Book, the first crowdsourced insurance book published by Wiley in May 2019. During the editing process, 240 chapter briefs were reviewed and 70 articles were selected and written by experts ranging from trend, technology, value chain, collaboration experts.

Co Editor of The INSURTECH Book

Punks & Pinstripes

One of the 100 Punks and Pinstripes' Members ONLY, a private network of the most impactful rebel executives in the Fortune 500 and beyond. Punks and Pinstripes' mission is to help one another stay punk and build breakthroughs. 

The network helps each member with the following hard things:
- be different from the other leaders in one's company or industry,
- beat the difficulty out of oneself because one wants to do and be more,
- make more money together 🤘🏽,
- listen without judgment or solutions.

Because each member helps one another with the difficult tasks, we're also very skilled at making money, solving problems, and building epic things.

General Participating Member

Activate Innovation Ecosystems | Tech Ambassador | Founder of Alchemy Crew Ventures + Scouting for Growth | Chair, Board Member, Advisor | Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow-Bayes Business School

I don't just talk about innovation, AI, workforce or digital transformation— I build the bridges that make things real.

As Founder & Venture-Client Partner of Alchemy Crew Ventures, I run global R&D + Adoption Labs that connect Fortune 500 insurers and corporates with the most brilliant tech ventures on the planet. Think of us as the “fast lane” between startup brilliance and enterprise adoption. My themes include FinTech/ InsurTech and deploying AI at scale responsibly. 

What this looks like in numbers:
📍 Accelerated 160+ ventures and sourced 55,000+ startups worldwide
📍 Invested in 35+ early stage startups
📍 Delivered exits like FitSense → Zurich (2018), MyFutureNow → L&G (2019), and Tia Tech → Sapiens (2020)
📍 Created Insurer-led Acceleration and Scaleup programs that turned pilot purgatory into scalable commercial success

But the real story? I help founders land their first million-dollar client, build authentic personal brands, and help corporates cut through the noise to adopt tech that drives real growth.

My world revolves around:
📍 Venture Clienting 2.0 & Corporate Innovation Frameworks
📍 AI (ethics, adoption, emerging risks)
📍 Climate Resilience, Risk Futures & Sustainability Transformation
📍 The Future of Work (where humans + tech thrive together)

Beyond Alchemy Crew:
📍 Co-editor of the bestselling INSURTECH Book
📍 Wrote forewords for the Future of Insurance and Momentum
📍 Lecturer on Corporate Venturing at Bayes Business School
📍 Board + advisory roles across VCs, Scaleups (The CareVoice), foundations (Women to Watch), standards (ACORD Solutions) & global insurers
📍 Top 10 Business Podcast "Scouting for Growth" 
📍 Recognized with 10+ awards, including Most Influential CEO – Insurance Corporate Ventures (2024/2025)

My channels beyond LinkedIn:
x.com: @SabineVdL
instagram: @sabinevdlofficial
Medium: @sabine_vdl
Podcast: Scouting for Growth and Beyond Tech Frontiers
Newsletter: alchemycrew.ventures

What drives me?
Creating value where others see friction.
Turning hype into measurable outcomes.
And making sure technology becomes a force for good, not just another buzzword.

Award List (10+): Insurance Times-Tech & Innovation Awards Winner (2018), Grant Thornton-Face of a Vibrant Economy (2018), Business Insurance-Women to Watch Honoree (2019), Corporate Vision-Venture Validation Firm of the Year (2021), Finalist Women in Insurance Perseverance Award (2021), Awarded Perseverant Company to Watch in (2021), ACORD Awards (2020/2023), Most Influential CEO-Insurance Corporate Ventures (2024/2025).

Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer & Venture Partner

Delivering venture labs that accelerate, industrialize and democratize the way tech ventures engage with corporations. These labs apply acceleration, co-creation, and commercialization techniques to de-risk the way insurers and financial institutions collaborate, grow, and scale their venture-led growth initiatives.

Also, systematizing for a select group of growth ventures the way their engagement with corporations.

You can find out more 👉🏽 https://alchemycrew.com/

🌟 Are we trusting AI blindly? 💫

The latest SAS and IDC Data and AI Impact Report just dropped last week 30 September, and it reveals a critical disconnect leaders can't afford to ignore.

We're in a state of "AI trust paradox." The report shows that while 78% of organizations claim to fully trust AI, a staggering only 40% have invested in making their AI systems demonstrably trustworthy through governance, explainability, and ethical safeguards.

This isn't any longer just a philosophical debate, right? It's a direct hit to the bottom line for many enterprises. The report proves that tangible ROI from AI is directly linked to trust. Trying to scale AI on weak data foundations is like building a skyscraper on quicksand.

Here are my key takeaways for leaders:

📌 The Trust Dilemma is Real: The gap between perceived trust and actual trustworthiness is where value is lost. We're adopting human-like AI, like Generative AI (81% adoption), faster than we're securing it.

📌 Move Beyond Cost-Cutting: The lowest ROI from AI comes from simply trying to save money. The real wins are in market share growth and enhanced customer experiences.

📌 Agentic AI Needs a Solid Foundation: The next wave of AI will stall without optimized cloud environments, robust data governance, and skilled talent.

📌 The Future is Governed AI: The race to AI supremacy won't be won by speed alone, but by trust and governance. It's time to shift our focus from just using AI to trusting AI.

I believe the trust imperative is the single most important conversation in AI right now. 

What are your thoughts? 
Are we moving fast enough on AI governance?

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I'm hosting a LinkedIn Live today.
​Amrit Santhirasenan from hyperexponential Talks Agentic Underwriting…. 
Please block your calendar and join us for this insightful deep dive.

86% of underwriters are burning 2+ hours a day on manual data entry.

That's not underwriting. That's expensive data processing. And while your team wrestles with 50MB email attachments and "attachment soup," brokers are taking their business to carriers who can quote in hours, not days.

Join me LIVE on 9 October at 12 pm EST/ 5 pm BST as I sit down with Amrit Santhirasenan, CEO of hyperexponential, to unpack Agentic Underwriting: From Theory to Enterprise Transformation.

This isn't another AI hype session.

We're talking:

✅ Multi-agent systems that orchestrate intake, triage, pricing & compliance
✅ How carriers like Aviva, Convex & Markel are achieving 50% faster submission-to-bind
✅ The metrics executives actually need: cycle-time compression, hit-ratio lift, loss-ratio improvement

For Chief Underwriting Officers under board pressure to prove ROI and scale beyond pilot purgatory—this conversation is built for you.

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