About Helix Risk Advisors
Helix is an independent retail insurance practice being built in the San Francisco Bay Area for one segment: tech companies, and the professional services firms around them.
Why this segment
Because it is the customer our founder has served for fifteen years. Eric Ullrich co-founded and operated a multi site startup incubator for nearly a decade, then sold API and infrastructure products to startups through Covid and after. He knows how a term sheet reads, what an enterprise security review feels like from the vendor side, and why a certificate delay can stall a signed contract. Helix applies that to the insurance those same companies are forced to buy.
How we work
- Advice before placement. We read the term sheet, the MSA, and the incumbent policy forms, including the endorsement schedule where AI exclusions hide.
- The whole market, compared. Direct platforms sell their own programme. We compare carriers, MGAs, and broker only AI programmes side by side, and we name the paper and the sublimits.
- Honest access. Every programme page on this site states how it is accessed. Where access runs via our wholesale partners, it says so.
Where we are in the build
Helix is pre-launch. Eric holds a California Life and Health license and is completing his California Property and Casualty license. Wholesale relationships, including specialty professional lines brokers in San Francisco, are being set up ahead of launch so that the market access on this site is real on day one. The plan after launch is the same discipline as the build: Series A to C tech and AI companies with enterprise customers, regulated data, agentic or physical world exposure, or a renewal problem, plus CPA and professional services firms on the same professional lines desk.