# Omar Issa

> Omar Issa is the co-founder and CEO of ResiQuant, a San Francisco startup that uses structural engineering AI to read a building's hidden vulnerabilities and rebuild how property insurers underwrite catastrophe risk. A second-generation structural engineer raised in the Bay Area, he earned a PhD at Stanford's John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, specializing in machine learning for disaster recovery. After walking through the rubble of earthquakes from Ridgecrest to Turkey and the wreckage of Hurricane Ian, he and co-founder Francisco Galvis built ResiQuant to give underwriters the engineering-grade data they were missing, raising $4M in seed funding led by LDV Capital in 2025.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at ResiQuant
- **Organizations:** ResiQuant, Stanford University, John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative, UCLA
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** PhD, Structural Engineering (earthquake resilience / machine learning for disaster recovery), Stanford University, Earthquake engineering research (under Prof. Henry Burton), UCLA
- **Known for:** Co-founded ResiQuant, an AI property intelligence platform for catastrophe-exposed insurers, Raised $4M seed financing led by LDV Capital (with Foothill Ventures, Pear VC, Alumni Ventures and angels), Earned a PhD in structural engineering from Stanford's John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center

## Career timeline

- **2020** — Begins PhD at Stanford's John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center; meets future co-founder Francisco Galvis
- **2021-2024** — Graduate researcher at the Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative, focused on machine learning for disaster recovery modeling
- **2023** — Co-founds ResiQuant with Francisco Galvis
- **2024** — Completes Stanford PhD; ResiQuant joins Pear VC's PearX S24 accelerator cohort
- **2025** — ResiQuant announces $4M seed round led by LDV Capital; speaks at ITC Vegas and Insurtech Insights

## Achievements

- Co-founded ResiQuant, an AI property intelligence platform for catastrophe-exposed insurers
- Raised $4M seed financing led by LDV Capital (with Foothill Ventures, Pear VC, Alumni Ventures and angels)
- Earned a PhD in structural engineering from Stanford's John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center
- Selected for Pear VC's competitive PearX S24 accelerator
- Conducted post-disaster field inspections after the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake, 2022 Mexico earthquake, Turkey earthquake, and Hurricane Ian
- Published earthquake-resilience and machine-learning research (Google Scholar)

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — ResiQuant announced $4M seed financing led by LDV Capital to expand its platform and grow its engineering and AI teams.
- **2025** — Spoke on catastrophe-risk and underwriting panels at ITC Vegas and Insurtech Insights alongside leaders from Palomar and Milliman.

## Links

- Website: https://resiquant.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarissa-stanford/

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Last updated: 2026-06-21