Descartes Underwriting

InsTech Overview:

Descartes Underwriting is an insurer and MGA selling parametric natural catastrophe and weather insurance solutions to corporates and governments through brokers. The company is headquartered in Paris with offices in London, New York, Houston, Denver, Atlanta, Singapore, Sydney and Hong Kong. Descartes develops its own proprietary risk models with an in-house team of data scientists.

For more information, go to descartesunderwriting.com

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