Greentech startup Climingo raises £290k led by Carbon13 with OnePlanetCapital
This article covers Climingo, a greentech startup, which has raised £290k in a pre-seed round to build an independent marketplace that benchmarks weather forecasters and AI models against customers' exact locations and decision thresholds. The platform aims to help organisations in weather-exposed sectors such as energy, insurance and construction select the most reliable forecasts for specific sites and operational decisions.
Climingo, a greentech startup that benchmarks weather forecasts, has raised £290,000 in a pre-seed funding round to build an independent marketplace that compares forecasters and AI models against a customer’s exact location and decision thresholds. The funding will support wider provider coverage, platform scaling and partnerships across weather-exposed sectors.
Why it matters
Weather forecasts are core inputs to many commercial decisions, from construction timing to trading and flood defence. Small differences matter: Climingo measured a 2.8°C gap between ECMWF, GFS and the Met Office for the national peak during a recent heatwave, widening to 4.4°C at city level. Insured losses from weather-related catastrophes reached $107 billion in 2025, according to Swiss Re, and extreme events now drive the majority of those losses. An independent way to measure which forecast is most reliable for a particular site or use case could reduce costly mistakes for energy, insurance and construction firms.
Inside the product
Climingo offers an independent marketplace that scores forecasts from major providers and newer AI models on accuracy, event detection and false alarm rate, comparing each forecaster’s prediction with what actually happened at a customer’s location. Scores are calculated against the specific variables and decision thresholds that matter to a business, then used to match organisations to the best-fitting providers at no cost to the customer.
The company says more than 200 weather data providers exist worldwide but none had been independently benchmarked across real-world performance until now. The platform is positioned to be geolocation- and asset-aware, recognising that models perform differently by place, variable and lead time.
Who are the investors?
Climingo raised £290,000 in a pre-seed round led by Carbon13, with participation from OnePlanetCapital and backing from Innovate UK. The capital will be used to scale the platform, expand provider coverage and develop partnerships across energy, insurance and construction, and other weather-exposed industries. Organisations can request a free evaluation of which forecast best fits their needs.
The founders met through a venture builder programme run by Carbon13, which also led the round.
Michael Langguth, Co-founder at Carbon13, said:
The Climingo team's market fit is extremely strong. Both founders have worked in this field for years, encountering the problem they're solving first-hand. As we've just seen in Europe's most recent heatwave, extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and disruptive. Weather and climate data models are highly geolocation- and asset-specific, so there's a clear need for an independent organisation that can combine them.
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Founder perspective
The business was founded by Dr Avi Baruch (CEO) and Alper Dincer (CTO). Dr Baruch previously co-founded Previsico, a Loughborough University spinout focused on flood forecasting that reached Series A and generated multi-million pound revenues; the experience gave him commercial exposure to model-driven decision-making for flood risk. Dincer has more than 20 years of experience building geospatial and drought-monitoring systems for governments and the UN and created Drought.UK, a free platform tracking drought risk across Britain.
Avi Baruch, Co-founder & CEO at Climingo, said:
In a market of hundreds of weather data providers, I realised businesses lacked independent advice. With summer heatwaves becoming commonplace and El Niño likely to make seasonal forecasts diverge even more than usual - businesses need to know they're making the right choice.
The bigger picture
Climingo’s proposition sits at the intersection of greentech, data and risk management. As climate-driven volatility increases, firms that rely on forecasts will look for evidence-based ways to reduce reliance on a single provider or model. For the UK and Europe, where critical infrastructure and commercial activity are exposed to shifting weather patterns, independent benchmarking could become a standard procurement step for weather-sensitive contracts.
The deal also reflects ongoing early-stage interest in companies that translate climate and weather data into operational risk reduction for businesses.
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