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Slide
Slide became one of Florida's largest home insurers by doing the unfashionable work of pricing hurricane risk - then pairing old-school agents with a very modern data engine.
ResiQuant
ResiQuant is a San Francisco insurtech that fuses structural-engineering expertise with AI to help property insurance carriers and MGAs underwrite catastrophe-exposed buildings with engineering-grade confidence and no backlog. Founded in 2023 by two Stanford-trained structural engineers, its platform deploys modular AI agents that read inspection photos, aerial imagery and public visuals to spot building-level vulnerabilities that traditional data misses - across earthquake, wildfire, windstorm and flood risk covering 99% of the US.
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.
Andy Thompson
Andy Thompson is the cofounder and CEO of Safehub, a San Francisco company that puts low-cost sensors on buildings to deliver real-time, building-specific earthquake damage data. A structural and earthquake engineer trained at UC Berkeley, he spent 16 years at the global engineering firm Arup, where he built its Catastrophe Risk & Insurance practice and worked post-disaster in countries from Chile to Haiti to Japan. He cofounded Safehub in 2015 with catastrophe-risk veteran Doug Frazier, raised a $9M Series A in 2021, and has deployed sensors across thousands of buildings in dozens of countries, now powering sensor-triggered parametric earthquake insurance with partners like Liberty Mutual Reinsurance.
Safehub
Safehub turns any building into an IoT device for earthquake risk. Its proprietary sensors and cloud analytics deliver building-specific damage information within minutes of a seismic event, helping owners, insurers and emergency teams make faster, better decisions. The same sensor network powers a new generation of sensor-triggered parametric earthquake insurance designed to slash basis risk and speed up payouts.