Space Business Podcast

#75 Bessie Schwarz, Cloud to Street: Flood Intelligence

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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

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