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Nico Laqua

Nico Laqua serves as CEO and CTO of Corgi Insurance, a San Francisco-based full-stack insurance carrier founded in 2024 that provides commercial insurance for startup and technology companies. Co-founded with Emily Yuan, Corgi participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch. The company received regulatory approval to operate as a licensed insurance carrier in July 2025. The company operates as a full-stack, AI-native insurance carrier that owns the underwriting, claims, and reinsurance functions, rather than acting as a broker.

Laqua earned a BS in Neuroscience from Columbia University where he was a Rabi Scholar. He worked on computational biology, AI, and VR from 2018-2020. Laqua served as a founding engineer at Green Mountain Aquaculture with Nobel Laureate Dr. Hamilton Smith before founding Basket Entertainment.

Career history

At Basket Entertainment, Laqua scaled a gaming portfolio to 200 million+ monthly active users, reaching 25-50% of teens in Western markets. Laqua pivoted from gaming to insurance post-ChatGPT, acquiring a licensed carrier for $35M and leveraging large language models for regulatory efficiency. His inspiration for Corgi came from family connection to insurance, his father spent his career as a lawyer for USAA, and negative personal experience acquiring insurance for a prior company.

What Nico Laqua could bring to Corgi Insurance CEO and co-founder role: Laqua brings technical depth as both engineer and founder, demonstrated ability to scale startups to massive user bases, and direct experience with insurance industry pain points. His neuroscience and computational biology background combined with hands-on coding expertise positions him to leverage AI for insurance innovation. His track record of pivoting successfully between industries while solving customer problems directly suggests he can drive Corgi's rapid growth in the nascent AI-native insurance space.

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