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