Jupiter in the news

“Jupiter is one of the leading corporate players working to help reduce the climate risks to the public and private sectors,” says Axios in their continuing coverage of Jupiter’s Series C investment round, while Jupiter CEO Rich Sorkin reveals that the company is developing new services and plans to add 50 people to its workforce.

$15 billion in damages; record insurer losses; a 10-year high in payouts, all in the first half of 2021 and even before Hurricane Ida has been factored in. In the face of a rapidly changing climate, Jupiter helped FEMA develop Risk Rating 2.0 using climate risk modeling. “I think most people inside FEMA would like to be moving much faster than they have the resources or permission to do,” Jupiter CEO Rich Sorkin told The American Prospect.

Axios’ Andrew Freeman has coverage of MPower’s investment and Jupiter’s expansion in the Japanese market.

“When you’re down to adapt or die, most people will eventually adapt,” says Jupiter CEO Rich Sorkin in a wide-ranging interview about the future of climate resilience with Forbes. Are you and your firm prepared?

“What I think is going to wind up happening is that the banks are going to be so far ahead of the insurance companies.” Marketplace talks to Jupiter CEO Rich Sorkin about the company’s efforts to push insurers to adapt to the realities of climate change using geospatial data.

The growing threat from extreme weather has businesses taking a greater interest in climate risk. In an exclusive report, The Washington Post explores Jupiter’s success working on resilience planning for organizations and how that has led to a 10‑fold increase in contracts at the start of 2021. The Post’s piece showcases Jupiter’s growing list of influential clients in the private and public sectors and looks at how Jupiter helps climate experts, businesses, and governments prepare for climate change.

Rising sea levels threaten Florida property values over the next few decades, and “almost none of this risk is reflected in prices,” says Jupiter CEO, Rich Sorkin. Business Insider investigates the looming crisis, turning to Jupiter’s special report on the situation in Miami-Dade for insight.

Jupiter would like to congratulate Rick Spinard on his new role as head of NOAA. “His exemplary record previously leading NOAA Research and the National Ocean Service will prove important in NOAA’s forward progress and leadership in both oceanographic and atmospheric endeavors as well as any responsibility NOAA may have for a National Climate Service, which Jupiter also strongly supports,” CEO Rich Sorkin told the Washington Post.

Jupiter is excited to have been selected to join Cohort 6 of the exclusive Lloyd’s Lab accelerator. Our selection as one of eleven companies out of almost 200 applicants makes a strong statement about the important role of climate analytics in the insurance sector more broadly, and specifically at Lloyd’s—the insurance capital of the world.

The Series C Financing is co-led by Clearvision Ventures and MPower Partners. Jupiter now provides analytics to 30 companies in the Global 2000, U.S. Department of Defense and FEMA to understand the impact of climate change on their physical infrastructure and supply chains, risks to financial portfolios, and vulnerabilities to human health and safety, and to protect over ten billion dollars of physical assets and more than a trillion dollars of financial assets.

Jupiter will join insurance and utility industry leaders along with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and others in a program at San Jose State University’s Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC).

Jupiter announced a major expansion of its work in Japan—adding an industry leading Japan-based venture investor MPower Partners. MPower is Japan’s first ESG-focused global venture capital firm and the first female-led VC firm in Japan.

The Columbia Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Applied Physics, and Applied Mathematics, author, and podcast host further strengthens Jupiter’s unmatched scientific expertise. “We are excited that Adam will bring his knowledge and enthusiasm to continue our efforts at providing the economy with the best science possible,” said Josh Hacker, Jupiter’s Chief Scientist and Co-founder.

Leavitt is a legal pioneer on emerging standards of care in the construction and engineering design resiliency of structures that are threatened by extreme weather from climate change as well as the legal ramifications of failing to adapt to climate change.

In collaboration with MS&AD InterRisk Research & Consulting, the goal of the enhancement is to resolve the lack of scientific data and completeness in terms of subject regions, and other issues regarding climate change scenario analysis.

The alliance combines Guidehouse’s utility industry expertise with Jupiter’s global-scale analytics platform to provide clients with a comprehensive and transparent climate change risk assessment as a key part of an advanced integrated planning strategy.

As the Biden-Harris administration renews its commitment to addressing climate change, Jupiter also announced its support for greater federal coordination of climate information services, emphasizing the need for better governance and the formation of a new Federal Climate Service (FCS). Jupiter’s public sector work has accelerated under the new administration, with risk planning and resilience projects underway or complete with the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and multiple other entities within the Executive Branch as well as grant funded work with the National Science Foundation and NASA.

Despite the impact of the global pandemic, Jupiter added several new marquee customers in the past year and looks forward to the Biden Administration’s investments and policies in science, greenhouse gas reduction, and resilience.