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Funding and backers

Team
100–199
French register · Dec 2023
Hiring now
3
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Battery Ventures
Momentum
40/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 27, 2022 Increased its share capital $48k · BODACC Oct 9, 2018 Founded per the company register
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity DESCARTES UNDERWRITING SAS recherche-entreprises
Registered 9 Oct 2018
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Tanguy TouffutPrésident de SAScompany register
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Overview

Descartes Underwriting is a Paris company founded in 2018 that designs parametric insurance against climate and natural catastrophe risks. It combines satellite imagery, weather stations and machine learning to trigger payouts automatically from measured events. The company covers corporate and public clients on every continent.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Descartes Underwriting over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
1
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
85/100
Practices & domains
Machine Learning
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People

Tanguy Touffut
Président de SAS
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
74/100
Growing
Open positions
3
2 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
16 days
faster than 62% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Data Science
75% ▲
Product
25% ▲
Actively hiring for Data Science (+3 in 30 days)

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Paris
Paris France
HQ
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3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Data Science, Product
148 rue de Courcelles,, 75017 Paris, France
seen since Sep 2026 company site, job postings

Jobs

In office • Internship • Paris
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In office • Internship • Paris
Machine Learning
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≈ $58k – $88k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Paris
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