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Today, I have two guests Bessie Schwarz, co-founder & CEO and Subit Chakrabarti, VP of Technology at Floodbase.Floodbase, which used to be called Cloud to Street, before their rebrand recently, is a climate-tech startup using satellite imagery to build flood data products for use by the insurance sector. In this episode, Bessie, Subit and I discuss what Floodbase does, their tech stack, what types of satellite data they use, why they publish their methodologies and collaborate with the academic community, how EO has evolved over the years and more.Floodbase websiteFloodbase open datasetPublication in Nature---01:00: Intros04:39: Floodbase - Overview08:59: Floodbase products13:51: Tech stack and what types of satellite data Floodbase uses17:40: Publishing the methodologies and datasets and working with the academic community19:48: Secret sauce behind mapping floods in near real-time25:01: Challenges using satellite imagery and wishlist36:02: Backward integration in the insurance industry40:52: Advise for starting a company today 45:51: Floodbase is hiring!