Jan 19 2022 38 mins
This podcast is hosted by Jimmy Morrissey who interviews Sid Jha, founder and CEO of Arbol (and founding partner of dClimate).
Arbol is a FinTech company offering global climate risk solutions for businesses in the agriculture, energy (traditional and renewable), maritime, and leisure sectors. Arbol’s proprietary pricing platform enables users to get live pricing directly through the app in a matter of minutes. The platform leverages a decentralized climate data network (dClimate), blockchain technology and an AI underwriter designed to price risks efficiently to make parametric protection products and SaaS services accessible and affordable for traditionally underserved and underinsured regions and businesses.
dClimate is a transparent, decentralized marketplace that allows participants to buy and share climate information (data, models, forecasts, etc.) and contribute to an open ecosystem of data-driven climate resilience applications.