#75 Bessie Schwarz, Cloud to Street: Flood Intelligence

My guest this week is Bessie Schwarz from Cloud to Street, a company that uses satellite imagery, and other data, to come up with better flood models for customers like governments and insurance companies. Hence, it is an example of the use of space technology for something useful right here on Earth, which is one of our favorite topics!

 

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:28 Elevator pitch

5:18 Origin story

8:07 The product

16:40 Clients

21:31 Value-add

28:24 The flood model

30:25 Using space data for Earth

38:22 Market size

41:17 Vision

44:02 Core competencies

48:10 Funding the business

50:35 Closing questions incl. sci-fi & cli-fi