- One Concern has hired the team behind Datmo, Anand Sampat and Shabaz Patel. These are the details about the acqui-hire deal.
In a Medium blog post, One Concern announced it has hired the co-founders of Datmo, Anand Sampat and Shabaz Patel. One Concern is known for advancing science to make disasters less problematic.
One Concern is essentially building a Resilience-as-a-Service solution that brings disaster science together with machine learning in order to quantify resilience from catastrophic perils thus empowering leaders to measure, mitigate, and monetize risk — which enables better decision-making. And One Concern’s technical talent includes seismologists, hydrologists, data scientists, engineers.
Sampat will be the head of Solutions at One Concern.
“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 Sampat. “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.”
And Patel will be leading One Concern’s Data Science team.
“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,” added Patel. “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.”
