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About Anish Sinha
Anish Sinha is co-founder and chief operating officer of upcover, a Sydney-based digital insurance broker that sells business insurance online to small, mid-sized and technology businesses. He started the company in 2021 with Skye Theodorou and Sajjad Naveed. upcover serves about 60,000 businesses and in February 2025 raised a $19 million Series A, made up of $11 million in equity led by RealVC and $8 million in debt.
Before upcover he worked at Goldman Sachs in India and was an early employee at a Sequoia-backed startup.
He has appeared twice on In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy: once on Australia's AI policy and the federal budget, and once with Heidi Health's Dr Tom Kelly on deploying AI in regulated industries such as insurance and healthcare.
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Start hereAnish Sinha (upcover) on AI Policy and How Founders Can Thrive in AustraliaHis solo interview, covering his path from Goldman Sachs to founding upcover and his case for an Australian AI policy.
In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy 
In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy Anish Sinha (upcover) on AI Policy and How Founders Can Thrive in Australia
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Key moments from Anish Sinha (upcover) on AI Policy and How Founders Can Thrive in Australia.
- 2:49Why Insurance Tech Is “Sexy” When You Frame It as Risk
- 4:54From Goldman Sachs to Founder: Finance Lessons for Entrepreneurs
- 9:23Australia’s Federal Budget and AI: The Strategic Gap
- 13:11What Australia Can Learn from China & the U.S. on Innovation Policy
- 18:39Cybersecurity Funding: Why $20 per Business Isn’t Enough
- 22:35AI Agents Unpacked: Hype, Promise, and Agent-to-Agent Flows
- 30:51upcover’s AI in Action: Automating Quotes & Data Structuring
- 36:34Hot Takes: Aussie Deep Tech Faves (Samsara Eco, Cover Genius, Gilmour Space)
- 42:18Future Insurability: Climate Risk, AGI Concerns & Startups to Watch
In their own words.
“It's the role of the government to talk about issues that might be important not today, but five years from now, 10 years from now as a country.”
Upcover on Day One
Upcover (styled upcover) is a Sydney online insurance broker for businesses. It arranges cover such as public liability, professional indemnity and directors' liability…
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