From tools to agents.
Brave the change.

Every industry is about to split in two: those who use AI to keep up, and those who use it to redraw what's possible. Braven is built for the second kind. We are the AI operations platform for MGAs and reinsurers that do their own underwriting, and we give teams what they need to build, from daily workflows to the boldest bets they have never dared make. What the industry wrote off as impossible becomes what your team builds next.

Our Mission

To build the rails that power
the next century of innovation in Insurance

Braven was built by insiders who know the operation, refuse its limits, and want to drive change.
We are the platform for outliers who dare to launch and run better programs.
We don't follow the industry; we redefine it and build paths others won't dare to walk.

THE COMPANY

Braven, on the record

Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Second office
London, United Kingdom, opened June 2026
Formerly
Sytrex. Braven rebranded in June 2026.
Funding
$5.7M raised to date, including a $4.6M seed round led by Collide Capital
Investors
Collide Capital, Fiat Ventures, MGV, Carao Ventures, Angeles Ventures, Broom Ventures, Kuiper, and angel investors including Matthias Weber
Founders
Carlos Chavez, Co-Founder and CEO. Daniel Palacios, Co-Founder and CRO.
Operating languages
English, Spanish and Portuguese
Carlos Chavez, Co-Founder & CEO

Carlos Chavez · Co-Founder & CEO

"People think insurance is about protection. I think it's bigger than that, insurance is what lets anyone take a risk and stay standing. Every company started, every idea funded, every leap forward runs on it. It's the financial rails underneath the whole economy, and right now they're holding builders back instead of carrying them forward."

"That's why we built braven. Today, we're the platform and the team helping the people inside insurance build the better version of it, to launch programs that work, run them on data, take bigger risks responsibly. But the real goal is simple: give builders the financial rails to power the future of the economy."
"After all the rekeying, the copying, the digging through emails and files. Only then can the analysis begin. That's what insurers deal with every day. The smartest people in insurance and reinsurance spend 40% of their time on work that adds nothing. Not because they're slow. Because the tools they have weren't built for how fast things move now.

We built braven to get rid of everything before that sentence. To give teams their time back so they can do what they're actually good at. Look at risk, close deals, and grow their book. Every team we work with sees the same thing: quotes in hours instead of days, errors cut by 70%, and capacity they didn't know they had. From MGAs processing specialty submissions to Lloyd's syndicates validating bordereaux to reinsurance brokers placing facultative risk. Less time buried in data, more time on decisions that move the book forward. We didn't build braven to make the old way faster. We built it to make the old way unnecessary."
Daniel Palacios, Co-Founder & CRO

Daniel Palacios · Co-Founder & CRO

PARTNERS

Backed by top investors

Carao Ventures
AITO
Broom Ventures
Collide Capital
Fiat Ventures
MGV
Angeles Ventures
Kuiper

Build the future of Insurance.