How insurance can narrow the valley of death [partner content]

Catalyst with Shayle Kann · Oct 15, 2025 · 26m

Jamie Daggett started his career as a mechanical engineer working for cleantech startups in Silicon Valley. But after five startups and three buyouts, Daggett saw the same story repeat itself: good technologies that worked in the lab often died before reaching commercial scale.

And often they didn’t fail because the science was wrong; they failed because investors couldn’t trust that the performance would hold up over time.

That realization eventually led him to an unexpected place: insurance.

Today, Daggett is the energy storage and fuel cell lead at Ariel Green, a Lloyd’s of London…