203. Captain: Demetrius Grey on Leveraging FinTech to Helping Rebuild Faster After Natural Disasters

<p>Demetrius Gray is the founder and CEO of Captain, a fintech platform that allows communities to recover from natural disasters quicker by paying contractors up front so they can get started rebuilding without having to wait on insurance companies to pay the claim. Demetrius first came on Middle Tech on episode 55 to talk about Weather Check, Kentucky’s first ever Y-Combinator backed startup. Using his learnings from Weather Check, Demetrius identified a huge opportunity with Captain and has raised over $107M worth of venture capital and venture debt to scale the company. Our discussion covers the opportunity that Captain is capitalizing on, Demetrius’s experience as a Kentucky founder, and his advice to entrepreneurs building high growth companies in this area.</p> <p>Learn more about Captain at <a href="https://www.captainhq.com/">CaptainHQ.com</a></p> <p>Visit us at<a href="https://middletechpod.com/"> MiddleTech.com&nbsp;</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.twitter.com/middletechpod">Twitter</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/middletechpod">Instagram</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/middletechpod">Facebook</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/middletech/">LinkedIn</a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/lojo_ky">Logan's Twitter</a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/nateante">Nate's Twitter</a></p> <p>Middle Tech is proud to be supported by:</p> <p>Our presenting sponsor,<a href="https://www.kyinnovation.com/"> KY Innovation</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.buildwithbolt.com/">Bolt Marketing</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.thejohnsonlawgroup.com/">The Johnson Law Group</a></p> <p><a href="https://endeavor-ky-in-oh.org/">Endeavor Midwest</a></p>