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Shepherd

San Francisco, CA, USA60+ employeesSeries B+ raised
Modernizing commercial insurance

Modernizing commercial insurance

YC W21

About the Company

Shepherd is a technology-driven Managing General Underwriter (MGU) transforming commercial Property & Casualty insurance for high-hazard industries. Our mission is to make risk frictionless for the builders and operators shaping the physical world — protecting progress from concept through construction and into decades of operation.

We’re building the fastest, smartest commercial risk platform, where underwriting expertise, data, and automation work together to deliver:

Faster decisions

Smarter, more accurate pricing

Better risk outcomes

With Shepherd, safety, speed, and quality no longer trade off against one another — they compound. We’re not just modernizing insurance products. We’re building the risk infrastructure for the next generation of financial services, where technology, underwriting, and partnerships operate in harmony to support the world’s most important industries — and the progress they make possible.

Tech Stack

👩‍💻 Our tech stack

Frontend

  • React & Next.js
  • Typescript
  • GraphQL w/ Apollo
  • Cypress.js & Jest

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Postgres & Redis
  • Typescript
  • GraphQL APIs

Founders

Justin Levine
Justin Levine
Mo Mahallawy
Mo Mahallawy

Cofounder/CTO of Shepherd

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