Climate Tech · sub-niche
Climate risk modeling APIs.
Flood / fire / heat risk APIs that mortgage lenders and insurers can integrate.
Team-sized buildSteady — one deal per month
Why now
Insurance + mortgage industry is being forced to price climate risk. Most lack the data.
What the signal looks like
Repos with climate-model output adapters, address-resolution libraries, and probabilistic-risk score generators.
Public examples
We name publicprojects + categories only — never founders we track inside the paid product. The buyer’s edge stays inside the product.
- Cervest / ClimateAi shape
- First Street Foundation
- Open-source climate risk libraries
What this displaces
A FEMA flood map from 2010.
Our build-vs-invest call
Capital + science-heavy. Fund only with climate-science co-founder. The moat is model accuracy + integration ecosystem.
Common questions about this niche
- Buyer?
- Insurers + mortgage lenders + commercial real estate.
- Pricing?
- Per address or per portfolio.
- Defensibility?
- Model accuracy + data freshness.
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