I have queued at Lloyd’s as a broker for 16 years. A lot of waiting around led me to wonder whether I could synthesise the cat bond principle in direct and facultative reinsurance risk segments. Inquiry into how I might combine new sources of ILS capital with a machine learning-powered data capture and risk pricing platform that turns a 30-minute underwriting process into one taking 30 seconds, brings me here. Our team raised seed capital funding from VCs in January, and we are now interested in speaking to funders for a much larger series A round.