Ulme Wennberg
| Ulme Wennberg | |
| Occupation | Co-founder and CTO of Vantel |
|---|---|
| Known for | Co-founding Vantel, an AI platform for commercial insurance brokerages |
| Education | KTH Royal Institute of Technology (BS Engineering Physics, MS Machine Learning); Stockholm School of Economics; University of Washington |
Ulme Wennberg is a Swedish software engineer and artificial intelligence researcher who is the co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of Vantel, an AI-native operating system for commercial insurance brokerages. Vantel was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2025 batch.[1]
Early life and education
Wennberg studied at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics and a Master of Science in Machine Learning. He also pursued parallel studies at the Stockholm School of Economics.[2] His master's thesis, co-authored with Elias Lousseief, received the Swedish AI Society Best AI Master's Thesis Award in 2020.[3] He subsequently undertook graduate studies at the University of Washington, where he co-authored research on information extraction and natural language processing. He enrolled in a PhD program in Artificial Intelligence at KTH but did not complete it.[4]
Career
Wennberg's research has focused on natural language processing and information extraction, and he has accumulated over 900 research citations. Among his notable contributions is co-authoring a paper on span-based joint entity and relation extraction with transformer pre-training, which became one of the most cited information extraction papers of 2019.[5]
Before founding Vantel, Wennberg worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and built conversational agents with Amazon Alexa. He also founded several earlier startups.[6]
In 2024, Wennberg co-founded Vantel with Love Redin, who serves as CEO. The company develops an AI platform designed specifically for commercial insurance brokerages, operating in the documents, insurance, and CRM sectors. The platform aims to serve as an AI-native operating system for brokerage workflows. Vantel is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch.[7]
References
- ↑ "Vantel – Y Combinator". 'Y Combinator}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Ulme Wennberg – Crunchbase". 'Crunchbase}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "EECS studenter vann Swedish AI Society Best AI Master's Thesis Award 2020". 'KTH Intranät}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Vantel – Work at a Startup". 'Work at a Startup}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Span-based Joint Entity and Relation Extraction with Transformer Pre-training". 'Semantic Scholar}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Vantel – Work at a Startup". 'Work at a Startup}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Vantel". 'Vantel}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.