Catamaran

The AI-powered risk decision platform

Y CombinatorSummer 2023AcquiredFintechInsuranceMachine LearningFinanceAnalyticsInsurance

What they do

Problem

Insurers and risk stakeholders struggle to quickly aggregate, validate, and analyze disparate risk data to make timely, accurate risk decisions and manage coverage.

Solution

An AI-powered risk decision platform that centralizes internal and external risk data, automates data collection and verification, runs scenario testing, and includes a regulated insurance marketplace for buying and managing coverage.

Who it's for

Insurers, reinsurers, brokers, and investors who need to evaluate and manage insurance and financial risk.

Founders

Benedict Altier

Founder

Benedict has advised more than 10 leading insurers and asset managers working across insurance, reinsurance, and risk modeling. He is also a front-end developer with a decade's worth of experience designing and building web applications. He graduated with a 1st class degree in Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford. As a visiting student at Peking University, he advised leading Chinese technology companies including a spin-out from Baidu.

Lucas Schneider

Co-Founder and CTO

Building CatX to revolutionize risk transfer for insurers. Bringing my expertise in financial markets and investing to the insurance world. Started my career in Credit Securitisation at Barclays in London where I structured and executed multiple transactions in excess of $10bn+ in value. Oxford PhD Candidate in Machine Learning for Gene Editing. Previously, leading the research team at a web3 hedge fund, focusing on infrastructure and decentralized finance investments.