Press, in full.
Media coverage of CatX, Catamaran, Cactus, and related work in insurtech and alternative capital.
The Insurer TV covers the CatX and Cactus merger, forming Bermuda's largest insurance software company and the launch of Cactus Risk Studio.
Benedict Altier featured on The Insurer's Young Meteors series, discussing his path into insurance and the vision behind CatX.
Benedict Altier quoted extensively on how prediction markets could provide a new layer of capacity for catastrophic risk, offering real-time pricing and continuous price discovery for insurers.
Benedict Altier advocates that carriers should leverage the platform as a third option when overcommitted to certain lines of business, enabling them to source third-party investors.
Benedict Altier discusses how proprietary trading firms are expanding into private ILS opportunities beyond natural catastrophe risk.
Two Bermuda-based insurance technology companies combine to form Cactus Risk Studio, the largest insurance software company operating from Bermuda.
The combined platform processes over $500 million in insurance premiums and aims to modernize insurance operations through AI-driven analysis and transparent transaction execution.
CatX merged with Cactus to launch Cactus Risk Studio, an integrated platform leveraging AI to help brokers, insurers, risk managers, and investors analyze and transact risk.
Benedict Altier featured among Gen Z frequent fliers who strategically maximize airline miles and points through gamified travel booking.
CatX launched its AI-powered Catamaran Parametric platform, guiding users step-by-step through risk identification and analysis across perils including hurricanes, droughts, earthquakes, and temperature events.
CatX integrated Verisk's catastrophe risk analytics into Catamaran, allowing investors to directly access Verisk's models for detailed ILS risk analysis and benchmarking.
Coverage of CatX's Catamaran launch, an AI-powered tool for creating and analyzing reinsurance submissions with feedback on investor interest and indicative pricing.
CatX unveiled Catamaran, an AI-powered tool that creates and evaluates reinsurance submissions while delivering rapid feedback on institutional investor interest and indicative pricing.
CatX introduced Catamaran for creating and analyzing reinsurance submissions, enabling brokers and underwriters to develop structured submissions with AI-powered data extraction.
CatX featured in TechCrunch's coverage of Y Combinator's Summer 2023 Demo Day, highlighting the most promising startups from the cohort.
CatX, founded by Oxford graduates Benedict Altier and Lucas Schneider, secured $2.7 million in seed funding to build a marketplace connecting insurers with capital providers.
CatX raised $2.7 million in seed funding from Silicon Valley VCs and angel investors to build its digital catastrophe and parametric risk exchange platform.
CatX was accepted into the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator program to build out its capabilities as a digital exchange for catastrophic and parametric risk.
Benedict Altier and two fellow teenagers created a high-tech duck capable of detecting pollution in open waters.
Coverage of a trio of Monmouth School pupils who built a duck-shaped device to detect pollution in the world's open waters.
Benedict Altier reports on fencing as a CBBC Newsround Press Packer, covering the sport and why it keeps you fit.