Stanford Entrepreneurs join One Concern Mission
One Concern acquihires and co-founders of Silicon Valley startup Datmo, Anand Sampat and Shabaz Patel, discuss technology and its potential to solve mankind’s biggest challenges.
One Concern is advancing science to make disasters less disastrous. This is our company’s mission and it is why we come to work every day, but we could not do it without the remarkable collection of talent who has come together at One Concern — seismologists, hydrologists, data scientists, engineers. It is the technical team at One Concern that makes our work possible.
One Concern is building a Resilience-as-a-Service solution that brings disaster science together with machine learning to quantify resilience from catastrophic perils, empowering leaders to measure, mitigate, and monetize risk, which enables better decision-making.
This important work requires extensive collaboration among talented individuals with rare and specialized skills, individuals that are not easy to come by. This is why One Concern is always working to add exceptional people, such as the Datmo founders: Anand Sampat and Shabaz Patel, who were acquihired by One Concern for their key AI expertise.
“Shabaz and I founded Datmo to pursue solutions to real world problems through the power of machine learning. We were drawn to One Concern because, while a number of companies found our products and services useful and asked to acquire them to solve their business problems, there aren’t many problems more pressing for society than the growing threat of natural disasters. When you couple that with the talent that exists on the One Concern team it was an easy decision,” said Anand Sampat.
Anand is leading Solutions at One Concern. “I look forward to helping prospective and current customers across public and private sectors understand the power of One Concern’s resilience products and the capabilities and opportunities they unlock for them. Machine learning provides clear advantages in terms of speed, capabilities, data processing and continual learning, especially in the world of disaster science. While traditional methods and players are heavy on physical modeling, One Concern brings together talented software developers, brilliant hazard scientists, and bright machine learning experts to combine the best of all fields to improve the speed and effectiveness of disaster resilience-enabling tools.”
Shabaz is leading Data Science at One Concern. “After much thought, we decided to join One Concern because of its entrepreneurial culture and noble mission. One Concern is tackling the challenge of enabling resilience to catastrophic events and as a data science leader, I am excited to work with this exceptional team.”
Looking to technology to help us uncover our blindspots, Shabaz deeply believes in the positive impact this can have on humanity. “One Concern is building cutting edge technology everyday with brilliant data scientists crafting the next generation of resilience software. This requires building models that capture the impacts of catastrophic perils, such as floods and earthquakes, and I look forward to contributing to One Concern’s vision of enabling planetary-scale resilience. Machine learning helps apply learnings from previous observations to new scenarios. Hazard science has evolved with decades of academic and industrial research by application of physics to capture the effects of hazards. Leveraging machine learning techniques in hazard modeling as well as in novel data inference techniques enables One Concern to rapidly predict in different geographies.”
We’re excited about the addition of Anand and Shabaz to our growing team, and are looking forward to the year to come.
Interested in joining the team? We’re on a mission to solve one of mankind’s greatest challenges — making disasters less disastrous.
