
A nuclear physicist learned to listen in scrapyards, turned stubborn measurement problems into handheld products, and built SciAps toward a deal worth up to $260 million. His second laboratory is louder: a NASCAR garage.
Paul Monasterio is the CEO and co-founder of Kalepa, a New York AI company building decision-support software for commercial insurance underwriters. A Venezuelan-born nuclear physicist with a PhD from MIT, he traded particle research for big-data analytics at Applied Predictive Technologies (acquired by Mastercard for $600M) and Facebook before launching Kalepa in 2018. Its Copilot platform helps underwriters 'bind with confidence,' and the company raised a $14M Series A from Inspired Capital in 2021.