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PRINCEPS launch: what they're building and where to launch next

What they're building

AI-native insurance company for the compute economy

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Fintech
Team size
3
Based
London, England, United Kingdom

Founders

princeps.dev ↗

See their funding details ↗

PRINCEPS on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: PRINCEPS is the first purpose-built insurance company (and MGA) for the trillion-dollar compute buildout. We underwrite SLA, GPU residual value, and outage risk, and price the coverage that unlocks cheaper financing for data centers and neoclouds. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Princeps builds the price of compute risk — a live benchmark for downtime, failure, and model-output liability, built from telemetry instead of loss history. The number lenders, insurers, and exchanges reference to finance, underwrite, and trade compute. The actuarial tables for silicon." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Conrad Frøyland Moe, Founder/CEO: Co-Founder of PRINCEPS. Previously Treasurer of the Oxford Union (£3M+ institution). Experience from national Norwegian politics. Co-Founded an events company at whilst at Oxford University: scaled to 650+ tickets per event at £15K+ revenue. B.A Oxford (History & Politics) (source)
  • Anya Trofimova, Founder/COO: Co-Founder of PRINCEPS. Previously VP of the Oxford Union ($3M+ institution). Designed and led UN digital campaign at 16, then worked on data centre project finance at Big-Law and built software for UK Parliament for energy & industrials. Youth Fellow at Chatham House researching defence and infrastructure security. University of Oxford Casberd Scholar. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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Where else to launch PRINCEPS

  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • ProductLed ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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