Iggy Bassi is the founder and CEO of Cervest, a climate intelligence platform that uses AI to model climate risks – such as flooding and forest fires – to physical assets.
Bassi founded Cervest in 2016 after his sustainable farming business in Ghana was destroyed by freak weather events.
The London-based startup has raised £26.6m to develop EarthScan, a platform that can give governments and enterprises 80-year forecasts on the climate risks facing a specific area or building.
In the first of a weekly UKTN series called Founder in Five, Bassi shares the most important early hire he made, explains why he’s excited about material sciences and reveals an unlikely rockstar he once chaperoned.
1) Who was the most important early hire you made?
Iggy Bassi: Dr Ben Calderhead – a huge brain, deeply pragmatic and a global expert in Bayesian and computational statistics. He helped create the scientific framework for assessing multivariate risks on many assets simultaneously....