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Alex Kubicek Learned to Read Hail. Then He Rewrote the Policy.
A failed rooftop sensor, more than 100 investor rejections and years of hail data turned a Wisconsin atmospheric scientist into an insurance founder. His wager is simple: when risk gets measured at ground level, it can be priced - and prevented - with far more intelligence.
Shepherd
Shepherd is a San Francisco insurtech that writes commercial insurance for builders and infrastructure operators. Founded in 2020, it pairs proprietary AI underwriting with real-time construction data to price and issue excess liability, primary casualty and builder's risk policies in hours rather than weeks. Once focused on middle-market general contractors, Shepherd now insures the physical layer of the AI boom - data centers, semiconductor plants and energy assets - having covered more than $400 billion in project value across 1,500-plus policies for 600-plus customers.