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Peter Colis

Founder of Ethos Life

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Peter Colis is the CEO at Ethos, a role he holds after co-founding the company. With a background as CEO and co-founder of Ovid Corp., he brings a wealth of experience in building successful ventures. His leadership has been instrumental in establishing Ethos as a prominent player in the insurance and FinTech sectors.

Work Experience 

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Ethos Life

  • CEO and Co-founder

    2016 - Current

    Ethos has issued over $140 billion of life insurance to protect U.S. families, and over 10,000 life agents sold Ethos policies in 2024. We're on a mission to protect millions of families. Backed by +$400 million of equity capital from Sequoia, Accel, Stanford, Google and Goldman Sachs. We value all-in commitment, clear thinking, continuous improvement, teamwork, and self-awareness. In everything we do, we strive to be world class and to conduct ourselves with the highest integrity.

Ethos Life is an insurance company that provides ethical life insurance.

Raised $413,960,000.00 from SoftBank Vision Fund, FootPrint Coalition, Roc Nation, Arrive, Google Ventures, Dreamers VC, GoldenArc Capital, General Catalyst, Vetamer and Glade Brook Capital Partners.

ethoslife.com
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Ovid Corp.

  • CEO and Co-founder

    2014 - 2018

    Built and led Ovid through a successful acquisition. Ovid is an insurance auction platform, using algorithms to drive pricing efficiencies.

Ovid Corp. is a life insurance company.

ovidlife.com

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