Dan Preston

Today, we're announcing Stand: property insurance for those impacted by climate-driven disasters. The growing impacts of wind, wildfire, and flood are pushing insurers out of markets, when that safety net is needed most. This can't be solved with insurers' typical tools. 🧵

On Aug 1, 2008, I quit finance to start WePay, only for Lehman Brothers to collapse two weeks later. It felt like the world was ending, yet 18 years later the S&P is up 5X and the financial crisis gave birth to a fintech revolution. Today something similar is happening 🧵👇

Episode 1 featuring @BurnBotRxTech drops on Tuesday. Come follow along on Youtube: @disasterproofHQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@disasterproof… Or Substack: convective.substack.com

Essay here: open.substack.com/pub/convective… And thank you to @paulg, @OCFAChief, @KatManalac, @gtwhitesides, @MegafireMatt, @DrLoriMM and Genny Biggs for reading drafts of the essay and providing feedback.

A year ago as LA burned, I wrote about how to stop wildfire at @paulg's urging. I never shipped it – my wife went into labor that night, and my attention shifted to welcoming our daughter. One year later, we haven’t fixed wildfire. But there are five things we can do 🔥👇

Big news 🚀 TI Bluetooth Low Energy chips will now ship with global connectivity via Hubble and Texas Instruments. • 90M+ terrestrial gateways worldwide • No GPS • No cellular • No gateways to deploy See it live at #CES2026 — TI Booth N115 Details: prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

@standinsurance Most importantly, we haven’t lost any customers due to mitigation needs, which is a core part of our practice: Help our customers protect their homes, while balancing aesthetics, cost, and convenience through the use of a custom physics model of your home.

@standinsurance We’re ending 2025 with over $2B in insured value and a dramatic increase in capacity to insure homes in California and Florida. We believe this represents the solution the insurance crisis: don’t just raise prices. Intervene to protect the structure, in partnership with owners.

2025 has been an incredible year at @standinsurance, thanks to our homeowners. Because our customers actively protect their homes from disasters, Stand is renewing all customers with zero rate increases this year, despite market volatility. We’re building a permanent partnership

@EclipseVentures @standinsurance You can learn more here bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@EclipseVentures Most of all, I couldn't be more proud of the team at @standinsurance. The pace and purpose inspire me everyday.

At Stand, we’re building insurance for the world’s climate-exposed property. California’s crisis was first and growing. Today, we’re launching in one of the world’s most extreme weather-prone regions: Florida.

🔥 Firetech has become a word – and also the hottest category in climate resilience (bad joke) 🔥 The sold out Red Sky Summit has grown to a full week with 600+ annual attendees 🔥 Our portfolio has collectively raised over $500M to scale their Firetech efforts.

At 4:41pm PT today, we launched 4 more Hubble production satellites into orbit via Transporter-14. Say hello to Scooby + Shaggy and Lilo + Stitch — joining the 3 we launched last year to bring us to 7 on-orbit. From weather balloons to space hardware. Let’s go. #adastra #spacex

1/ We're dedicating $100M to support American scientists facing funding cuts through the Lux Science Helpline, an expansion of our Lux Labs program. To compete in the future, innovation must be funded 🧪💡

Please read more in-depth here as we roll this out over the coming months. standinsurance.com/labs/introduci…

If you are actively working on research or have been part of recent cuts, and would like to help us keep this data available for the world’s researchers, please reach out to us at datacommons@getstand.com. We’d love to work with you.

At Stand, we build models to understand and mitigate climate risk. Our work depends on an ecosystem of publicly available environmental data, now subject to risk of federal funding cuts. To protect that data and support climate research, we are introducing a Climate Data Commons.