Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC) is excited to announce our recent investment in Soter, a US and UK-based AI-native workplace safety and loss prevention software company.
Across industrial sectors, safety and risk management has often been defined by manual, document-intensive work. Environment, health, and safety (EHS) professionals spend significant portions of their day on administrative tasks like inspections, incident reports, compliance documentation, and audit preparation, rather than on the prevention work that matters most. Insurance providers face a parallel challenge: loss control teams at capacity, underwriters managing submission backlogs, and a growing expectation to deliver more value to clients without proportional headcount growth. Across both constituencies, the opportunity for technology to drive meaningful efficiency and better outcomes has historically gone underserved.
Soter's platform, SoterAI, seeks to address this challenge on both sides of the risk equation. The platform is AI-native; designed specifically for the safety and insurance domains rather than adapted from general-purpose models and trained on more than 20 million safety data points. The company reports that SoterAI currently achieves 95.64% accuracy on real-world safety tasks based on its published SAFE-Bench benchmark evaluation, which Soter indicates outperforms general-purpose AI tools on domain-specific safety queries.
For EHS teams, SoterAI provides a unified safety workspace built around 30+ guided workflows spanning hazard identification, incident investigation, site audits, regulatory monitoring, and action plan management. Users can capture on-site conditions through their phones, with the platform automatically detecting hazards, classifying severity, and surfacing relevant, jurisdiction-specific regulatory citations. Comprehensive, audit-ready reports can be generated in minutes rather than hours. The company can help teams reduce administrative time by up to 70%, creating meaningful capacity for prevention-focused work.
For insurance providers, SoterAI is designed to offer operational leverage for loss control and underwriting teams. Standardized assessment workflows, automated report generation, and white-label reporting capabilities seek to allow teams to serve significantly more clients without adding headcount; a model that customers have used to help broaden client capacity and reduce safety assessment preparation from hours to minutes. Insurance carriers can also offer SoterAI directly to their insured clients as a value-added service, enabling real-time risk visibility that can support improved underwriting outcomes and deeper client relationships.
The platform is built to enterprise-grade standards, with SOC 2 Type II certification, end-to-end encryption, strict tenant data separation, and continuously updated regulatory coverage spanning Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements and international safety frameworks. SoterAI is deployable across multi-site and global operations and is currently trusted by more than 500 companies.
We believe Soter has established a differentiated position at the intersection of workplace safety and insurance technology; an AI-native platform that serves the interconnected needs of employers and insurers through a single, purpose-built system. Their focus on domain accuracy, operational scalability, and measurable customer impact aligns with RAC's mission to back software businesses that can help drive real outcomes for their customers. We are proud to support the Soter team on their continued growth.
To learn more about Soter, visit www.soter.com.