Emberline Acquired Hazard Risk Platform Intterra in 2021
Jon McLaughlin · Transforming Legacy Industries through Thematic Investment and AI with Jon McLaughlin · Jun 9, 2025 · at 5:29
Jon McLaughlin, Managing Partner at Emberline, explains the firm's founding thematic investment thesis on risk mitigation technology and its initial acquisition.
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“We started Emberline. We raised money and really around the first thematic view was the world is going to burn down. How do we put together the right technologies to mitigate risk? And at the time, what we saw was the world was set up around sort of legacy incumbents and sort of legacy mindset. And we really found some opportunities to invest in culture and team and technology, so profit and impact, all of that together, and stepped out, raised some money around that, and we bought a company called Interra in 21.”
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