
He spent a career refusing to specialize, then a bike ride with doctors handed him the one hard problem worth building a company around: making the AI behind real decisions something a human can actually answer for.
Dan Schuleman is the co-founder and CEO of Qumis, a Chicago-based AI platform that reads and interprets complex insurance policies the way a seasoned coverage attorney would. A former insurance coverage litigator and in-house counsel at Kin Insurance, he started Qumis in 2023 after years of marking up dense policy PDFs by hand. The company has raised roughly $6.75M and counts five of the 15 largest U.S. insurance brokers among its users.
Alex Schmelkin is the founder and CEO of Sixfold, a New York company building generative AI for insurance underwriting. After two decades founding and running digital design and software firms - Alexander Interactive, Cake & Arrow, and a founding role at no-code pioneer Unqork - he launched Sixfold in 2023 to give underwriters a virtual team of AI researchers that reads submissions, scores risk, and shows its sources. Sixfold has processed more than a million submissions across 40-plus lines of business, raised a $30M Series B in 2026, and counts Zurich North America, Guardian, and Generali among its clients.