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- Joseph Studholme: Co-Founder and Managing PartnerPast Role: Princeton Climate Analytics, President, CEO and Co-Founder
- Colby Fisher: Founder and Managing Partner
Hydronos Labs is the “Weather Underground” for near-term weather and climate hazard risk - a broadly available, scientifically credible platform, providing a continuously improving underlying data and software layer. Founded by lead scientist Colby Fisher PhD and Princeton Executive-in-Residence Joseph Studholme in 2020, Hydronos has built a
next-generation “insights-as-a-service” platform - superior in cost, transparency and ease of use. Successful POCs from the platform include flood history underwriting, disaster emergency response, and wildfire risk to inventory/pricing/delivery for a national supermarket retail supply chain.
In September 2024, Hydronos was selected (14 companies out of 700+) for the prestigious NJ FAST Plug&Play accelerator program.
This is an ‘‘Open Core” product model: leveraging a robust research user community to improve and monetize current and future edges in data/model quality - through AI, machine learning, and knowledge graph powered software products provided via a freemium model. Our goal is to establish Hydronos Labs as the primary “open” provider of this layer in the risk transfer financial ecosystem - as the branded, trusted, broadly available, reasonably priced global data platform for commercially actionable climate intelligence. From a broad user base, we build credibility, a customer-driven development cycle and a brand that will enable proven monetization strategies at scale, including marketing to qualified users of mitigation and insurance partner solutions for their identified risks.