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Dan Woods | Founder and CEO of Socotra | Fintech Finance

About Dan Woods

https://www.socotra.com/
Dan Woods is the founder and CEO of Socotra, the first modern, cloud-based platform for technology-driven insurers. Before Socotra, Dan did IT investing and portfolio management for Formation 8 Partners (now 8VC), where he specialized in data platforms and smart enterprise software. Prior to that, Dan’s depth of enterprise experience was honed over his six years with Palantir. There, Dan was an early member of the core engineering team and later transitioned to run Palantir’s partnerships, plus several deployments. He holds a MS in Computer Science from Stanford. Dan Woods has experience as a private equity investor, and was an early member of Palatir’s engineering team. 

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