Sabine VanderLinden

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/

Biased Media Group

Biased Media Group isn’t just another agency, it’s a creative-consulting hybrid built for bold, product-first brands that want to scale with meaning.

As Founder, I wear many hats (and proudly so): brand strategist, product marketer, creative lead, and sometimes the person sending memes at 2am that turn into campaign ideas.

I started BMG to help founders bring clarity to the chaos, turning product vision into brand obsession. We partner with B2B startups, SaaS brands, and digital communities to build category-defining brands with soul.

Think strategy that scales, creative that connects, and storytelling that sticks. From positioning to execution, I help shape brands that don't just look good — they actually make people care.

Highlights:
• Built the BIAS Method – our signature brand growth framework
• Led full-stack branding for product-led startups
• Merged product marketing + creative strategy into a single playbook
• Focused on founder-first, product-centric brand building

Founder

VaynerMedia

Social Insights Analyst & Post Creative Strategist (Strategy)

Cognizant

Senior Product Marketing Manager | On-site Google

Zomato

Product Marketing Manager

NextLeap

Product Manager Fellowship

Tech Mahindra

Operation Associate 

Joveo

Marketing Team

Ad M&A Specialist: On-Site Google | ex Zomato, Tech Mahindra, Joveo | Building brands via data-driven marketing & creative content | SAAS, B2B, Startups | Generative AI, AI Engineering: ML, NLP, Sentiment Analysis, Azure

I’m Bhawesh — a brand strategist turned product marketer turned founder of Biased Media Group (BMG), a creative-consulting studio built for product-first B2B brands that want to scale with soul, not noise.

I started BMG because I was tired of seeing great products get ignored, not for lack of quality — but for lack of story, strategy, and emotional connection. So now, I work with founders to bring clarity to their chaos, build brands that actually matter, and create systems that scale with consistency.

Think brand meets product. Think storytelling with a POV. Think strategy that doesn’t just sound good on slides, but drives real traction.

Whether it’s a GTM that lands, a brand voice that sticks, or a narrative that turns scrolls into sales — I’m here for it. Always curious, always building, and always biased… towards better.

Let’s make branding the smartest thing about your startup.

Bhawesh Tibrewal

One of the most overlooked problems in healthcare. Worth a read.

AI Product Manager (SaaS & Cloud AI) | Product Marketing & GTM Strategy | Fractional CMO/CPO & Strategy Consultant | Founder @ BMG | GenAI, Vertex AI, LLM Solutions Architect

Healthcare's admin crisis is costing us billions, and patients are paying the price. 

The American Hospital Association reports that hospitals spend 40%+ of their entire budget on admin work. And 1 in 4 patients delay care because the system is too hard to navigate. 

Behind every missed call is a frustrated patient. 
Behind every long wait is someone who needed help… and gave up. 

At Eden, we're building an autonomous front office that handles the chaos so providers can focus on care that feels human again. 

Because no patient is a number.
They’re people trying to get better, and they deserve a system that helps, not hinders 🌱

#HealthcareAI #HealthTech #PatientExperience #Eden #EdenHealthTech

How Healthcare Admin flow is costing billions - Eden

Everyone's racing to "integrate AI." 
But AI won't fix a product that doesn't understand its own users.

I keep seeing the same pattern. 

Teams slap "AI-powered" on their landing page while their support tickets pile up unread, NPS responses rot in a spreadsheet, and feature feedback is scattered across 12 Slack threads and 4 Notion pages.

Then they wonder why their AI features feel... off.

You can't automate clarity you never built in the first place.

AI needs patterns. Most products run on chaos and gut feelings.
If your user data is a mess - unlabeled, scattered, outdated - plugging AI into it won't make you smarter. It'll just make you confidently wrong, at scale.

Your feedback loop is broken if:

- You're still guessing why users churn.
- Your PM and support team tell different stories about "what customers want."
- You have 100 feature requests but zero clarity on actual pain themes.
- You're feeding random feedback into ChatGPT hoping it finds insights you couldn't.

That's not product strategy. That's hoping AI will do your homework.

The best AI products aren't built by teams with fancy models. 
They're built by teams who already listen like machines.
They centralize feedback. 
They tag it by pain theme and segment. 
They spot patterns before they need AI to confirm them. 
Then they use AI to scale what they already understand.

So before you add another AI feature to your roadmap, ask yourself - do you actually know what your users are struggling with? 

Not what you think they need. What they're actually saying.

If you can't answer that without opening 6 different tools, AI won't save you. It'll just hallucinate confidence while you lose trust.

Stop racing to be AI-powered. Start racing to be user-informed.

How do you currently track and make sense of user feedback? 
Is it actually usable or just collected?

#ProductManagement #AIProduct #ProductStrategy #MarketingStrategy #ProductMarketing #Startups #SaaS #Ai

Product sense isn't magic. It's pattern recognition 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙩 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨.

People talk about "𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲" like it's some mysterious superpower. 

Like certain PMs just HAVE IT and others don't. 

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝗮𝗦, 𝗔𝗜, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗧𝗠:

> Product sense is Pattern Recognition. And patterns only come from 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴.

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗠 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 "𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲" 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀:

⚠️ Shipping features nobody used because we assumed instead of asking.
⚠️ Prioritizing what was loudest, not what was costly.
⚠️ Overbuilding when a tiny experiment would've answered everything.
⚠️ Designing the interface we wanted, not the workflow users actually needed.
⚠️ Listening to internal opinions more than external signals.

Those mistakes hurt. But they sharpen you.
They form the mental models you can't get from books, courses, or frameworks.

That's product sense. Not magic 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗬.

You develop it every time you feel the consequences of a bad decision.

You start to:

• Spot feature bloat before it ships  
• Sense when a roadmap is drifting from reality  
• Recognize feedback as symptom vs. root cause  
• Know what "good enough" looks like in AI workflows  
• Detect the difference between customer 𝗥𝗘𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗦 and customer 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗧𝗛𝗦 
• Predict where users will get stuck before they do

These aren't instincts. They're accumulated bruises.

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲, 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀.

↳ Look for friction.  
↳ Look for the uncomfortable moments where you shipped something and immediately regretted it.  
↳ Look for the customer calls that made you rethink everything.  
↳ Look for the patterns behind what repeatedly goes wrong.

That's where intuition forms.  
That's where good PMs turn into real product leaders.

Product sense isn't a talent.
It's a timestamp of your mistakes, and your willingness to actually learn from them.

#ProductManagement #AIProduct #ProductStrategy #MarketingStrategy #Startups #SaaS

❌ Stop asking "𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐈?" 
✅ Start asking "𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐮𝐦𝐛?"

Every product team is asking the same question right now:
 "𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑨𝑰 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕?"

❌ Wrong question. That's how you end up with gimmicks, not leverage.

✅ Better question - "𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒖𝒎𝒃?"
  ↳ Where are we slow, manual, or guessing? 
  ↳ Where do we waste time on things machines should handle?

The best AI features don't start with hype. 
They start with 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐬.

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐈 𝐮𝐬𝐞:

When I'm working with teams, I map workflows across three layers:

> 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 — What decisions do humans make over and over?

> 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬 — Where does information get dropped between people or systems?

> 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐤 — What eats hours but adds no real value?

That's where AI belongs. Not in random "𝐆𝐏𝐓 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬." 
In the invisible friction that slows your team and your users down.

𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬:

 ↳ Instead of "𝑨𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓" → Build an AI insight summarizer that synthesizes user feedback into themes

 ↳ Instead of "𝑨𝑰 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒃𝒐𝒕" → Create an AI triage layer that routes support conversations intelligently

 ↳ Instead of "𝑨𝑰 𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒚𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒃𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅" → Design decision support that explains why a metric moved, not just that it did

That's the difference between "𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝑨𝑰" and "𝒘𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕."

AI isn't here to make your product flashier.
𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐮𝐦𝐛, 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫.

Next time you're in product planning, skip the "What can we build with AI?" brainstorm.

Instead, ask your team:
 ↳ "𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒑𝒊𝒅 𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆?"

That's your roadmap.

#ProductManagement #AIProduct #ProductStrategy #ProductMarketing #Startups #SaaS #Marketing

Nobody talks about the admin overload in clinics. But that’s where most problems begin.

And, most delays start at the front desk, not with doctors...

#healthcare #SaaS #Aitech

Healthcare's admin crisis is 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, and patients are paying the price. 

Hospitals spend 40%+ of their budget on admin work. And 1 in 4 patients get delayed care because the system is too hard to navigate.

Behind every missed call is a frustrated patient.
Behind every long wait is someone who needed help… and gave up.

Most clinics think this is a staffing problem. It's not. 

It's a 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀, an operational overload we've quietly normalized for too long.

At Eden we're building an autonomous front office tool that handles the chaos so providers can focus on care that feels human again. 

Because NO patient is 𝗮 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.

They're people trying to get better, and they deserve a system that helps, not hinders. 🌱

#HealthcareAI #HealthTech #PatientExperience #Eden #EdenHealthTech

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