Overview
CatX is a Bermuda regulated digital marketplace for insurance risk. With more than $500m of opportunities listed, it gives hedge funds and other sophisticated investors a direct way to access, analyse and transact insurance risk. Insurance risk is an uncorrelated alternative asset class with a broad range of return profiles. CatX's Catamaran platform helps institutional investors, insurers and risk managers quantify the impact of a risk and decide whether to hedge it or invest in it.
Founders & team
Previously Ultravity, CatX
Benedict Altier
FounderBenedict has advised more than 10 leading insurers and asset managers working across insurance, reinsurance, and risk modeling. He is also a front-end developer with a decade's worth of experience designing and building web applications. He graduated with a 1st class degree in Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford. As a visiting student at Peking University, he advised leading Chinese technology companies including a spin-out from Baidu.
Lucas Schneider
Founder/CTOBuilding CatX to revolutionize risk transfer for insurers. Bringing my expertise in financial markets and investing to the insurance world.
Started my career in Credit Securitisation at Barclays in London where I structured and executed multiple transactions in excess of $10bn+ in value. Oxford PhD Candidate in Machine Learning for Gene Editing. Previously, leading the research team at a web3 hedge fund, focusing on infrastructure and decentralized finance investments.
Founded 2023 · Source ↗
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Y Combinator
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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedLondon, England, United Kingdom
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