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Michael Gulla Is Teaching Insurance to Move at the Speed of the Weather
After two decades inside insurance, the Austin founder is betting that the next useful policy will behave less like paperwork and more like an if-then statement - watching the event, verifying the trigger and moving money while it can still help.
Jonathan Hatzor Is Putting a Price on the Moment the Internet Blinks
The Parametrix co-founder built sensors for an invisible risk, then persuaded insurers to trust the signal. Now cloud downtime is becoming a line item in the economics of AI, data centers and everyday business.
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.