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Catamaran

Y Combinator LogoSummer 2023
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machine-learning
finance
analytics
insurance
investing
 
https://www.trycatamaran.com

The AI-powered risk decision platform

Catamaran uses AI to help people make clearer, faster decisions about risk. Our platform brings all internal and external risk data into one easy-to-understand workspace. By automating data gathering, checking, and scenario testing, we help insurers, reinsurers, brokers, and investors quickly understand and manage their risks. Catamaran also provides a regulated marketplace to easily buy, sell, and manage insurance coverage.
Active Founders
Benedict Altier
Benedict Altier
 

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
Lucas Schneider
 

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.
Catamaran
Catamaran
Founded:2023
Batch:Summer 2023
Team Size:5
Status:
Active
Location:London, United Kingdom
Primary Partner:Tom Blomfield
 
Company Launches
Catamaran: Intelligent Catastrophe Risk Analysis and Underwriting 🌊
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Hey YC! We’re the CatX team, and we are excited to announce the launch of Catamaran 2.0—the smartest way to analyze natural catastrophe risks for any property, location, or business.

🔍 Problem

Organizations today struggle with outdated, slow, and expensive processes for assessing natural catastrophe risks. Traditional tools lack comprehensive insights, require significant manual effort, and leave critical gaps in understanding how disasters like wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, and severe weather could impact their assets and portfolios.

💡 Our Solution

Catamaran makes catastrophe risk analysis effortless and powerful. Just upload your property details or any relevant documents, and Catamaran instantly generates comprehensive risk insights using extensive historical data across all major catastrophe perils—including wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, typhoons, weather, hail and more.

https://youtu.be/s4mTqmcFsWY

Powered by advanced AI agents, Catamaran quickly identifies errors, provides clarity from complex datasets, and delivers insights previously only available through costly, manual underwriting.

We spent the past two years helping institutional investors understand, model, and invest in catastrophic risk. Frustrated by outdated workflows in underwriting and risk assessment amidst modernizing processes everywhere else, we built Catamaran as our solution.

⚡ What Catamaran Can Do:

  • 📚 Historical Risk Analysis: Evaluate location-specific risk profiles based on hundreds of years of historical data.
  • 🛡️ Optimal Insurance Protection: Automatically identify the best insurance structures—parametric or traditional—tailored to your unique risk exposure.
  • 📄 Advanced Document Extraction: Effortlessly process complex, unstructured documents to rapidly extract key insights.
  • 📈 Calculate Loss & Scenario Analysis: Instantly conduct sophisticated scenario analyses to quantify potential losses for proactive risk management.

⚙️ Use Cases

  • 🏦 Insurers: Accelerate underwriting, cut costs by up to 90%, and precisely manage portfolio risks.
  • 📊 Brokers: Transform your quoting process with faster, more accurate risk assessments.
  • 🏢 Businesses & Investors: Confidently evaluate and manage catastrophe risk exposure across investments, portfolios, and operations.
  • ⚖️ Regulators: Enhance regulatory oversight and compliance with transparent, data-driven risk analytics.
  • 🛠️ Developers: Easily integrate catastrophe risk analytics into your apps using our developer-friendly API

👥 The Team

Catamaran is built by the CatX technology team led by:

Benedict Altier, insurance consultant with experience modeling programs for leading insurers like AXA, Beazley, and MS Amlin, ex-Oxford.

Lucas Schneider, Oxford PhD candidate in Machine Learning, ex-Barclays Investment Banker, ex-McKinsey.

Jon Wood, formerly on the retro leadership team at top insurance broker AON and previously at Guy Carpenter (Marsh) and Willis.

Matthew Salamon, experienced software developer formerly at AON, PwC and Balancer.

🙏 Our Ask

If you manage or insure properties at risk, we'd love to show you how Catamaran can streamline your process and enhance your decision-making:

- Email us directly: catamaran@catxglobal.com

- Schedule a quick demo here: [trycatamaran.com](https://www.trycatamaran.com)

Catamaran: The future of intelligent catastrophe risk analysis.

– Benedict, Lucas & the CatX Team

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