INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Climate risk, including extreme events and the related pressures our environment, are fundamentally affecting the way businesses and
Increasing climate volatility is causing food supply disruptions and increasing pressure on Enterprises (including financial institutions,
incompleteness and sheer volume is too vast for humans to process with the tools available today
harder to provide useful and timely analysis.So the challenge is to address these issues simultaneously
So a new startup, Cervest, has created an AI-driven platform designed to inform the decision-making capabilities of businesses, governments
real-time, climate forecasting platform.The round was led by deep-tech investor Future Positive Capital, with co-investor Astanor Ventures
by a team of scientists, mathematicians, developers and engineers, Cervest says its Earth Science AI platform can analyze billions of data
points to forecast how changes in the climate will impact the future of entire countries, right down to individual landscapes.It does this
probability theory, the platform can identify signals, or early-warning signs, of extreme events such as floods, fires and strong winds
It also can spot changes in soil health and identify water risk.Cervest says the platform could do such things as reveal the optimum
help them set premiums for the next 12 months.The team comes from a network of more than 30 universities, including Imperial College, The
Alan Turing Institute, Cambridge, UCL, Harvard and Oxford, and has published more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers.A beta version of
decisions that improve the long-term resilience of our planet
Today decision-makers are struggling with climate uncertainty and extreme events and how they are affecting their business operations,
years of farming left unless drastic action is taken, the need for science-backed decisions could not be greater
Soros, Gates Foundation, World Bank and Syngenta
Its impact was featured in UNDP, World Economic Forum, FT, The Guardian and Huff Post
agribusiness whilst confronting first-hand the impacts of climate and natural resource volatilities.The Cervest team includes eight
Between them, they have published more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers with more than 3,000 citations in high-profile titles,
including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Royal Statistical Society.
