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Dan Woods

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Founder & CEO at Socotra

Austin, Texas, United States

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About

Dan Woods is the founder and CEO of Socotra, a core platform for the insurance industry. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Stanford, with a concentration in AI, and previously worked as an early backend engineer at Palantir, where he developed the company's first AI functionality and later led partnerships and deployments.

Founder & CEO at Socotra

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Socotra's investors · 8

8VCAustin · $100K – $50M checksActivant CapitalNew York · $100K – $50M checksCrunchFundInsight PartnersNew York · $120M – $350M checks · since 2022MS&AD VenturesMenlo Park · $500K – $3M checksPortage VenturesMontreal · since 2021Tuesday CapitalSan FranciscoUlu VenturesPalo Alto · $2M checks

Experience

  1. SocotraFounder & CEOcurrent2014 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. 8 | partnersAdvisor2015 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
  3. Formation 8 PartnersFellow2013 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
  4. Formation 8 PartnersVenture Partner2012 — 2013San Francisco Bay Area
  5. StartX.Advisor2011 — 2015
  6. Palantir TechnologiesForward Deployed Engineer & Head of Partnerships2007 — 2012Palo Alto, CA
  7. Palantir TechnologiesSoftware Engineer2006 — 2007Palo Alto, CA
  8. Stanford UniversityGraduate Student Researcher2005 — 2006Stanford, CA

Skills & more

C++3Linux3SaaS9Enterprise Software7Strategy7Start-ups30Software Engineering10Cloud Computing10Product Management4Entrepreneurship15Software Development5Business Development8
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Who is Dan Woods?
Dan Woods is the founder and CEO of Socotra, a core platform for the insurance industry. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Stanford, with a concentration in AI, and previously worked as an early backend engineer at Palantir, where he developed the company's first AI functionality and later led partnerships and deployments.
Where does Dan Woods work?
Dan Woods is Founder & CEO of Socotra.
What companies did Dan Woods found?
Dan Woods founded Socotra.
Where did Dan Woods go to school?
Dan Woods studied at Stanford University (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (Concentration in Artificial Intelligence)); Kettering University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering).

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