Today, I have two guests Bessie Schwarz, co-founder & CEO and Subit Chakrabarti, VP of Technology at Floodbase. Floodbase, which used to be called Cloud to Street, before their rebrand recently, is a climate-tech startup using satellite imagery to build flood data products for use by the insurance sector. In this episode, Bessie, Subit and I discuss what Floodbase does, their tech stack, what types of satellite data they use, why they publish their methodologies and collaborate with the academic community, how EO has evolved over the years and more.
Today, I have two guests Bessie Schwarz, co-founder & CEO and Subit Chakrabarti, VP of Technology at Floodbase.
Floodbase, which used to be called Cloud to Street, before their rebrand recently, is a climate-tech startup using satellite imagery to build flood data products for use by the insurance sector.
In this episode, Bessie, Subit and I discuss what Floodbase does, their tech stack, what types of satellite data they use, why they publish their methodologies and collaborate with the academic community, how EO has evolved over the years and more.
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01:00: Intros
04:39: Floodbase - Overview
08:59: Floodbase products
13:51: Tech stack and what types of satellite data Floodbase uses
17:40: Publishing the methodologies and datasets and working with the academic community
19:48: Secret sauce behind mapping floods in near real-time
25:01: Challenges using satellite imagery and wishlist
36:02: Backward integration in the insurance industry
40:52: Advise for starting a company today
45:51: Floodbase is hiring!