Explore the latest in commercial insurance with insights and industry wisdom directly from the Shepherd team.
Introducing Shepherd AI Compliance: Advancing Construction’s Insurance Technology
The first offering of Shepherd's free software platform for insureds
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
February 27, 2024
Announcing Shepherd's $13.5M Series A
Today we’re thrilled to announce Shepherd has raised a Series A financing, led by Costanoa Ventures
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
February 7, 2024
Underwriting with superpowers: parsing claims data with OCR
Using technology to give underwriters a superpower
Danil Kolesnikov
Founding Engineer
January 11, 2024
Shepherd's 2023 Year in Review
A quick recap of Shepherd's top moments in 2023
Laura Watts
Customer Experience Lead
December 21, 2023
Major Update to Shepherd's Primary Offering
Shepherd has expanded its capabilities to include non-admitted primary casualty offerings on a countrywide basis, effective immediately.
Laura Watts
Customer Experience Lead
December 11, 2023
Announcing Our Partnership with Samsara
We’re thrilled to announce Samsara, the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud as our latest addition to Shepherd’s Casualty Pro program.
Mohamed El Mahallawy
Co-Founder & CTO
August 30, 2023
Shepherd Expands into Primary Casualty Lines, Unveiling New Opportunities for Contractors
Announcing our expansion into Primary Casualty lines
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
August 28, 2023
Introducing Shepherd Rewards
A rewards program exclusive to Shepherd Insureds
Mohamed El Mahallawy
Co-Founder & CTO
June 21, 2023
Introducing Shepherd Insights: benchmarking US contractor performance
Maureen MacIsaac
Product Lead
May 22, 2023
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence: A New Era for Construction Underwriting
At Shepherd, we're thrilled by AI's potential to achieve a foundational company goal: the elimination of administrative underwriting.
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
April 3, 2023
Don’t Fight Excel (You Won’t Win)
Notes on building software for spreadsheet-dominated domains
Sam Sheridan
Software Engineer
February 23, 2023
The most underrated stakeholder in construction tech
Unlocking the true potential of new technologies will drive the next wave of industry progress, and shape how a new generation of risk managers will need to work cross functionally with their technology leadership counterparts.
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
February 15, 2023
2022 Shepherd Year in Review
A quick recap of Shepherd's first year since going live
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
December 19, 2022
My love letter to the Nerds
Surprisingly, the wildest thing about my journey with Shepherd has been obsessing over insurance with none other than my engineering colleagues.
Lindsay Plotkin
Underwriting Lead
September 8, 2022
Hello, bonjour
3 lessons I learned building a commercial insurance product from zero to one
Maureen MacIsaac
Product Lead
September 1, 2022
Expanding Casualty Pro with Autodesk
Today we're announcing Shepherd's strategic relationship with Autodesk
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
August 25, 2022
First 100 Days
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. ” - Mike Tyson
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
July 11, 2022
Announcing our partnership with OpenSpace
Expanding Casualty Pro with the market leader in job site capture
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
June 21, 2022
Announcing Casualty Pro - a partnership program to reward innovative contractors
Today we’re announcing Casualty Pro, a new Shepherd program that introduces technology usage data into our underwriting process.
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
May 24, 2022
Be brave enough to suck at something new
Last year, around this time, I set my heart on taking a risk to go into software engineering.
Iris Jiang
Software Engineer
April 25, 2022
How we build our risk models
The process of taking Excel risk models and turning them into code
Mohamed El Mahallawy
Co-Founder & CTO
April 14, 2022
Launch Day
Shepherd’s first product, Excess Casualty, is live in the construction insurance marketplace
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
February 28, 2022
How my first interview shaped my career in CS
This mindset and curiosity to learn was crucial as I grew into management. My team became my customer and my day was filled with questions and problems that I didn’t know how to answer.
Laura Watts
Customer Experience Lead
February 9, 2022
Building Insurtech in 2022
As a second wave insurtech startup, the learnings from Insurtech 1.0 have undoubtedly shaped a lot of how we approach Shepherd.
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
January 4, 2022
Leadership in Underwriting
At Shepherd, we are building an underwriting approach that automates the science in order to enhance the art.
Costas Hadjipateras
Head of Underwriting
September 30, 2021
How We Hire Engineers at Shepherd
Insights into our process and what candidates can expect as they get to know our team.
Mohamed El Mahallawy
Co-Founder & CTO
September 23, 2021
The Insurance Industry’s Generational Talent Dispersion [Part 2]
Spend just a few hours within any insurtech company and you will immediately notice a few stark differences compared to the 1980's-decorated rows of cubicles still donning many office environments today, both culturally and practically.
Steve Buonpane
Co-Founder & CIO
September 20, 2021
The Insurance Industry’s Generational Talent Dispersion [Part 1]
As professional growth opportunities wane in today’s Big-Corporate structures, traditional organizations will struggle to retain their Millennial and Gen Z talent.
Steve Buonpane
Co-Founder & CIO
September 16, 2021
We are the Product
If you’re anything like me, you wanted to be an inventor when you grew up.
Avi Banerjee
Founding Engineer
September 13, 2021
Our Startup Stack
The tools we use to power our business
Mohamed El Mahallawy
Co-Founder & CTO
September 8, 2021
Announcing our Seed Financing
We’ve raised a $6.15M seed round, led by Spark Capital
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
September 2, 2021
Why I Joined Shepherd
When a mutual friend introduced me to the Shepherd co-founders, I knew it was something very special - a rare sense of connection, thoughtfulness, and intention.
Danil Kolesnikov
Founding Engineer
July 12, 2021
Reflections from my Construction Tech Startup Journey
Today marks three years since we sold TradeTapp to the incredible team at BuildingConnected. Looking back, I can say without a doubt this was the right decision for us, our team, and for the industry.
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
June 29, 2021
Day 1 of a New Journey
It’s been a dream of mine to build something from the ground up. Something purposeful and lasting.
Steve Buonpane
Co-Founder & CIO
April 12, 2021
Introducing Shepherd
A new type of insurance company for commercial construction
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
March 31, 2021
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