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Soteris

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We write ML software to more accurately select & price insurance risk.

Summer 2019Founded 20184 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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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.

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Sunit Shah
Sunit ShahFounder
BCG

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.

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