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AJ Sarkar Asked Hundreds of Executives What Risk Looks Like. Then He Built the Dashboard.
The RiskOpsAI founder has spent years translating the anxious language of cyber risk into decisions a board can actually use. His latest bet is that AI governance must move as quickly as AI itself.
When the Cloud Goes Down, Parametrix Cuts the Check in Days
A New York insurtech wrote a policy that pays out automatically when AWS, Azure or Google Cloud stops working. Then, on one July morning, CrowdStrike proved the whole thesis was worth billions.
The Texas Firm Turning Lawsuits Into an Asset Class
A former Capital One and Flagstar lending executive built a private equity shop in the Dallas suburbs around a simple idea: lawsuits are collateral, and collateral can be underwritten.
The 125-Year-Old Insurer Learning to Price Tomorrow’s Weirdest Risks
Hiscox began with marine risk at Lloyd’s. Today it sells a policy online in minutes, models California wildfire years ahead and still makes room for the odd painting, satellite or kidnap case.
RiskOpsAI
RiskOpsAI (formerly OptimEyes AI) is an AI/ML-driven integrated risk modeling and decisioning platform that helps Fortune 2000 and Global 500 organizations discover, measure, prioritize, predict and optimize cyber risk, data privacy, third-party threat exposure and regulatory compliance. Its patented, AI-native risk quantification aggregates data from multiple risk sources into a single source of truth, giving CXOs a near real-time, transparent view of enterprise-wide risk and the actions to remediate it.
Delos Insurance Solutions
Delos Insurance Solutions is a San Francisco insurtech and managing general agent that uses satellite imagery, fire science, and machine learning to insure California homeowners in wildfire-prone areas that traditional carriers have abandoned. Founded by two aerospace engineers, Delos models wildfire risk at the individual-property level using NASA Earth-observation data, climate science, and hundreds of risk parameters, allowing it to write coverage on homes the rest of the market deems uninsurable.
Naftali Harris
Naftali Harris is the Co-Founder and CEO of SentiLink, a San Francisco-based identity verification and fraud prevention company that helps over 400 financial institutions - including 10 of the 15 largest U.S. banks - detect synthetic identities and application fraud in real time. A Stanford-trained statistician who left his PhD program to become Affirm's first data scientist, Harris co-founded SentiLink in 2017 after seeing sophisticated fraud schemes up close. The company has raised $84 million in total funding, verifies over 3 million identities daily, and has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 and American Banker's 2024 Innovators of the Year.