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Mohamed El Mahallawy
Co-Founder & CTO
Company
Aug 30, 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.
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
Company
Aug 28, 2023
Shepherd Expands into Primary Casualty Lines, Unveiling New Opportunities for Contractors
Announcing our expansion into Primary Casualty lines
Mohamed El Mahallawy
Co-Founder & CTO
Company
Jun 21, 2023
Introducing Shepherd Rewards
A rewards program exclusive to Shepherd Insureds
Maureen MacIsaac
Product Lead
Company
May 22, 2023
Introducing Shepherd Insights: benchmarking US contractor performance
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
Company
Apr 3, 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.
Sam Sheridan
Software Engineer
Product & Engineering
Feb 23, 2023
Don’t Fight Excel (You Won’t Win)
Notes on building software for spreadsheet-dominated domains
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
David Bowcott
Managing Director | NFP Construction & Infrastructure
Underwriting
Feb 15, 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
Company
Dec 19, 2022
2022 Shepherd Year in Review
A quick recap of Shepherd's first year since going live
Lindsay Plotkin
Underwriting Lead
Underwriting
Sep 8, 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.
Maureen MacIsaac
Product Lead
Product & Engineering
Sep 1, 2022
Hello, bonjour
3 lessons I learned building a commercial insurance product from zero to one
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
Company
Aug 25, 2022
Expanding Casualty Pro with Autodesk
Today we're announcing Shepherd's strategic relationship with Autodesk
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
Company
Jul 11, 2022
First 100 Days
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. ” - Mike Tyson
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
Company
Jun 21, 2022
Announcing our partnership with OpenSpace
Expanding Casualty Pro with the market leader in job site capture
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
Company
May 24, 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.
Iris Jiang
Software Engineer
Product & Engineering
Apr 25, 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.
Mohamed El Mahallawy
Co-Founder & CTO
Product & Engineering
Apr 14, 2022
How we build our risk models
The process of taking Excel risk models and turning them into code
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
Company
Feb 28, 2022
Launch Day
Shepherd’s first product, Excess Casualty, is live in the construction insurance marketplace
Laura Watts
Customer Experience Lead
Company
Feb 9, 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.
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
Company
Jan 4, 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.
Costas Hadjipateras
Head of Underwriting
Underwriting
Sep 30, 2021
Leadership in Underwriting
At Shepherd, we are building an underwriting approach that automates the science in order to enhance the art.
Mohamed El Mahallawy
Co-Founder & CTO
Product & Engineering
Sep 23, 2021
How We Hire Engineers at Shepherd
Insights into our process and what candidates can expect as they get to know our team.
Steve Buonpane
Co-Founder & CIO
Underwriting
Sep 20, 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
Underwriting
Sep 16, 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.
Avi Banerjee
Founding Engineer
Company
Sep 13, 2021
We are the Product
If you’re anything like me, you wanted to be an inventor when you grew up.
Mohamed El Mahallawy
Co-Founder & CTO
Product & Engineering
Sep 8, 2021
Our Startup Stack
The tools we use to power our business
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
Company
Sep 2, 2021
Announcing our Seed Financing
We’ve raised a $6.15M seed round, led by Spark Capital
Danil Kolesnikov
Founding Engineer
Company
Jul 12, 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.
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
Company
Jun 29, 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.
Steve Buonpane
Co-Founder & CIO
Company
Apr 12, 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.
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
Company
Mar 31, 2021
Introducing Shepherd
A new type of insurance company for commercial construction