Jupiter in the news

“AI-based systems can give much more predictive insight to what the likely risk ranges are for farmers,” said Jason Pontin, a partner at DCVC and investor in Jupiter. “You can buy better financial products, like insurance products, since you’re literally betting the entire farm.”

CHANCE asked Katherine Bennett Ensor, president of the American Statistical Association, to interview Rich Sorkin, CEO and co-founder of Jupiter Intelligence, for his insights about mitigating physical climate risks around the globe.

Jupiter CEO, Rich Sorkin, speaks with MPower Partners about the critical role ESG plays in business growth and performance including crucial culture benefits —both internally within the company and externally to customers, shareholders, and community, as well as government, business leaders and public policy makers.

Bisnow spoke with Jupiter CEO Rich Sorkin about the impact on Florida’s commercial real estate and insurance from Hurricane Ian and climate change. “Codes will only go so far in aiding newer buildings as the intensity of storms continues to increase with climate change.”

Jupiter CEO Rich Sorkin speaks to MarketWatch about the critical need for climate analytics in the insurance industry and the concept of “duration mismatch.”

The HuffPost reports on the multiple concurrent and sequential weather and climate events around the world referencing Rich Sorkin, Jupiter CEO as an industry expert. “There’s a cautious scientific perspective where you can look at the data and it’s clearly getting warmer and we’re seeing increased extreme events and economic costs, but you can’t tie any one event back to climate change in a scientifically rigorous way…. There is also an awful lot of support for global warming being the driving event for the increased intensity and frequency of severe events and perspective from those who say the world is burning down and yesterday was too late to do anything about it.”

Commercial Risk covers Jupiter’s new partnership with Aon and explores how Jupiter will assist Aon’s clients in quantifying climate risks.

“If you hold a mortgage, or a commercial loan for real estate, even if you assume that it’s going to get refinanced, you have to evaluate what the economic environment is going to be at the time it’s refinanced,” Sorkin added. “Now people don’t price [climate risk] in, but they will in 10 years.” —Jupiter CEO Rich Sorkin speaks with Commercial Observer about the expanding requirements and demand for “climate intelligence” to inform investment decisions.

Axios covers Jupiter’s new collaboration with Boston Consulting Group and speaks with Jupiter CEO Rich Sorkin about the company’s partnership strategy.

The 100 companies on the list represent the private, independent, and for-profit companies best positioned to contribute to a more digitized, de-carbonized and resource-efficient future. Jupiter’s climate change risk analytics were selected among winners from 15 countries and various industries.

Zurich’s Global Innovation team chose Jupiter from among more than 1,300 submissions from companies in 43 countries around the world.

“2020 has proven beyond a doubt that the private sector has much work to do to prepare for future disruptions, and this is especially true regarding the risks that climate change presents to the stability of financial markets,” Keenan said. “I’m excited to join Jupiter on their mission to not only help organizations adapt to the shocks and stresses of climate change, but to also take advantage of the opportunities for sustainable investment.”

ClimateScore Global™ is a next-generation climate risk analytics tool that provides physical risk assessment designed to support decision-making across a wide range of industries—for any point on the land surface of the planet through the year 2100.

“With the support of industry leaders including Liberty Mutual and MS&AD, Jupiter will continue to deepen our analytics to help customers make complex financial decisions as they emerge from a global economic crisis,” said Rich Sorkin, CEO and Co-Founder.

The $1M grant will go towards the deployment of Jupiter’s FireScore™ Operations service, a wildfire threat and intelligence platform, to accelerate readiness for the 2020 wildfire season.

Jupiter today announced an agreement with the Hawaiian Electric Companies to provide ongoing climate risk analytics services for generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure across five major islands of Hawaii. Jupiter also recently announced a capital investment from Elemental Excelerator (Elemental), a global infrastructure innovation accelerator. The funding, as part of Elemental’s Demonstration Track, will enable Jupiter to accelerate deployment of its flood and wind risk analytics services in the Pacific, beginning in Hawaii.