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Sultan Mehrabi

Sultan Mehrabi

Co-founder, Zensurance

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Sultan Mehrabi co-founded Zensurance, the Toronto online brokerage for small-business commercial insurance, with Danish Yusuf in 2016 and served as its chief technology officer. Travelers bought a majority stake in 2018. Before Zensurance he was head of strategy at Kijiji and a software engineer at Cisco. He is now a managing director at DMZ Ventures.

Sultan hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Sultan co-founded Zensurance, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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Did Sultan Mehrabi co-found Zensurance?

Yes. An Ivey Business School company profile dated September 28, 2018 lists him as "Co-Founder, CTO (2016-Present)" and says Danish Yusuf partnered with his friend Sultan Mehrabi, who had experience building online businesses, to create the platform. The DMZ described him as Zensurance's CTO on August 21, 2017.

What is he doing now?

DMZ Ventures' site, checked September 24, 2026, lists him as Managing Director. Zensurance's about page, checked the same day, does not include him in its leadership team.

What did he do before Zensurance?

The Ivey Business School profile dated September 28, 2018 lists him as head of strategy at Kijiji from 2015 to 2016, a director at Ryerson Futures, a senior consultant at KPMG, and a software engineer at Cisco from 2002 to 2007. He holds an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.

What happened to Zensurance?

The Ivey Business School profile dated September 28, 2018 reports that Travelers bought a 60% stake in Zensurance for $16 million in August 2018. Zensurance's about page, checked September 24, 2026, says it has more than 350 employees.

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