Pauline Roteta

Pauline Roteta is the co-founder and CEO of Pasito, a New York based startup building AI agents for the insurance and employee benefits industry. A former Senior Investor and Portfolio Manager at BlackRock, Fulbright Scholar, CFA and CFP, she launched Pasito in 2021 to attack the roughly $200 billion Americans waste each year on poor benefits decisions. Pasito went through Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch and in February 2026 raised a $21 million Series A led by Insight Partners, bringing total funding to about $24.4 million.