# Jan-Felix Schneider

> Jan-Felix Schneider is the co-founder and CEO of Arlo, a New York health insurance company rebuilding coverage for small and mid-sized businesses from the ground up. A former Palantir deployment strategist and McKinsey consultant who grew up in Germany, he pairs a Columbia data science background with a plain conviction that people should not go broke while insured. Under his lead, Arlo underwrites its own level-funded plans, supports members directly, and builds its own technology - scaling to tens of thousands of covered lives and hundreds of employer groups, reaching profitability, and raising a $4M seed in 2025.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Arlo
- **Organizations:** Arlo, Palantir Technologies, McKinsey & Company, Health Tech Stack, Emerald Nodes, Arago GmbH, KfW
- **From:** Germany
- **Nationality:** German
- **Education:** M.Sc. Data Science, Columbia University, B.Sc. Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Economics exchange (one year), National University of Singapore, Design Thinking (Basic Track), Hasso Plattner Institute
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Arlo, a full-stack health insurance company for small and mid-sized businesses, Scaled Arlo to tens of thousands of covered lives and hundreds of employer groups in under two years, Reached profitability with a small, focused team

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Intern, Economics Department at KfW
- **2016** — Data Science & Technology at Arago GmbH
- **2017** — Consultant at McKinsey & Company
- **2018** — Founding Partner at Emerald Nodes; completes M.Sc. at Columbia
- **2019** — Joins Palantir Technologies in New York as Deployment Strategist
- **2021** — Begins writing the Health Tech Stack newsletter
- **2022** — Co-founds Arlo with Karthik Bhaskara; becomes CEO
- **2024** — Arlo partners with Nationwide as managing general underwriter for medical stop-loss (announced Oct 28, 2024)
- **2025** — Arlo raises $4M seed led by Upfront Ventures with 8VC and General Catalyst (March 2025)

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Arlo, a full-stack health insurance company for small and mid-sized businesses
- Scaled Arlo to tens of thousands of covered lives and hundreds of employer groups in under two years
- Reached profitability with a small, focused team
- Raised a $4M seed round in March 2025 from Upfront Ventures, 8VC and General Catalyst
- Established Arlo as managing general underwriter in a partnership with Nationwide
- Wrote mid-eight-figures in premiums within the first year
- Spent 3.5 years at Palantir as a deployment strategist across healthcare, aviation and telecom
- Author of the Health Tech Stack newsletter on why US healthcare is expensive

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Arlo raised a $4M seed round led by Upfront Ventures with participation from 8VC and General Catalyst.
- **2024-10** — Arlo announced a partnership with Nationwide to offer medical stop-loss insurance for small businesses, acting as managing general underwriter.

## Links

- Website: https://joinarlo.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janfelixschneider
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/jfschneidr

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Last updated: 2026-07-01