He Rowed the Tasman, Then Built and Sold a Fintech
Mark Pavlyukovskyy and Hendrik Remigereau host TechMates, the NZVC podcast. The guest on this episode is Shaun Quincey, CEO of Simfuni, and it went out on 29 September 2025. It covers the NZVC portfolio company Simfuni.
- Guest
- Shaun Quincey, CEO of Simfuni
- Date
- 29 September 2025
- Companies
- Simfuni
- Watch
- YouTube
- Listen
- Spotify
Shaun Quincey rowed solo across the Tasman in 54 days, later sold a services-focused BNPL company to Latitude, and now leads Simfuni, an AI-first operating platform for life insurers. He explains how a payments wedge became a full policy-admin and automation stack with eight insurers live. The conversation covers enterprise sales inside legacy insurers, AI agents handling customer requests, and the ethics of wearables and genetics in underwriting.
- Rowing Australia to New Zealand solo at 23: 54 days, capsizes, a bestselling book, and startup lessons.
- BNPL in services with 5k merchants, then a strategic sale to Latitude.
- Simfuni: payments wedge, then policy admin OS, then AI agents for customer ops.
- Eight life insurers live; AU/NZ focus with South Africa interest next.
Companies in this episode
Simfuni, insurtech, life insurance, AI agents, enterprise sales, BNPL, fintech