Soteris
Summer 2019 · Active
We write ML software to more accurately select & price insurance risk.
Location: San Francisco, US
Founded: 2018
Team size: 4
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About
Soteris is a YC-backed company with a four-person team and a great investor base building a first-of-its-kind data ML pricing system for insurance, starting with personal auto.
Founders
Sunit ShahFounder
Sunit entered the insurance industry in 2005, spending six years building pricing models for life insurance. He later joined the $16B hedge fund Pine River Capital, where he spent 2 years building a $750m P&C insurance company from scratch. He is an author of both Behavioral Finance (Wiley) and the Principal-Agent Problem in Finance (CFA Research). Prior experience also includes the Boston Consulting Group and adjunct faculty positions at UVA. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from UVA in 2011.