Category Visionaries

Paul Monasterio, CEO and Co-Founder of Kalepa: $16 Million Raised to Power the Future of Insurance Underwriting

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Paul Monasterio, CEO and Co-Founder of Kalepa, an insurance underwriting platform that's raised $16 Million in funding. Topics Discussed: Paul’s background growing up in Venezuela, coming to the US for college, being a nuclear physicist and working in big data analytics How Kalepa's AI-powered Copilot software enables underwriters to focus their time on the highest ROI opportunities and to quickly evaluate and optimally select risk Why one of this Paul’s two favorite books is a Norwegian novel The size of the commercial insurance industry in the world and what percentage of that is using Copilot Why Paul recommends getting a co-founder when founding a startup Favorite book: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Broadcast on:: 16 Aug 2023

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Paul Monasterio, CEO and Co-Founder of Kalepa, an insurance underwriting platform that's raised $16 Million in funding.

Topics Discussed:

Paul’s background growing up in Venezuela, coming to the US for college, being a nuclear physicist and working in big data analytics
How Kalepa's AI-powered Copilot software enables underwriters to focus their time on the highest ROI opportunities and to quickly evaluate and optimally select risk
Why one of this Paul’s two favorite books is a Norwegian novel
The size of the commercial insurance industry in the world and what percentage of that is using Copilot
Why Paul recommends getting a co-founder when founding a startup

Favorite book:

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies