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Meet Benchmark Labs
We Make Benchmark Labs
Our co-founders have more than 15 years working with land surface flux measurements, terrestrial water budgets, soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer scheme modeling, hydro-informatics, atmospheric sciences, machine learning and commercial agriculture.
Carlos Gaitan
CEO & Co-Founder
Elected Member AI Committee, American Meteorological Society
Co-Founder & Chief Climate Scientist, ClimateAI, Inc.
VP of ML & Weather Forecasting, Arable Labs
Research Scientist, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Princeton
Postdoctoral Researcher, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Princeton
Ph.D. University of British Columbia, Atmospheric Science
Ulrik Soderstrom
Chief Strategy + Operations Officer & Co-founder
Chief Executive Officer, Leerly
President, McKinsey & Company Alumni Founders Community
Engagement Manager, Voyance Group
Senior Business Analyst, McKinsey & Company
Data Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Researcher, Geomorphology labs at University of Rochester & Cornell
M.S. University of Rochester, Data Science
Marshall Borrus
Deployed Engineer
Research and Project Assistant, Stanford University
Venture Capital Fellow, Norrsken VC
Winemaking Assistant, Foris Vineyards
B.A. Williams College, Physics & Geoscience
In Grateful Memory Of
Christopher Lund
Co-Founder
VP of Ag Products, ClimateAI
VP of Growth, Arable Labs
Senior Ag IoT Solutions Architect, Verizon
Director & Senior Research Scientist, Decagon Devices
Research Scientist, NASA Ames SIMS Program
Ph.D. Stanford University, Biological Sciences
Why Benchmark Labs?
Intelligent Insights
Created by experts for everyday users. We bring the best available scientific tools and datasets to improve our users’ decision-making process.
Personalized Attention
We provide asset-specific weather forecasts for the agricultural sector and other fixed asset verticals.
Team Work
We operate in an environment defined by collaboration and continuous improvement. Those characteristics are also embedded in our forecasts.
Innovation
Modern weather models produce forecasts for grid cells, but not for specific locations within grid cells. As a result, forecasts are often inaccurate and can lead to significant financial losses.
Benchmark Labs in the news
Benchmark Labs featured in Google’s Economic Impact Report
Benchmark Labs was selected by Google to represent California in its 2024 Economic Impact Report. Highlighting Benchmark Labs’ use of AI technologies to create a positive economic impact to its users in agriculture and other sectors.
Podcast | Personalized Weather Technology On Successful Farming Radio
14 March 2022 – Benchmark Labs Inc. (Benchmark Labs), a leading provider of asset-specific environmental forecasting solutions, is featured on Successful Farming Radio. CEO and Co-Founder Carlos Gaitan is interviewed for the podcast in an episode titled "Personalized...
Benchmark Labs selected as a 2022 Cool Company
Benchmark Labs selected by Connect San Diego as one of the fastest, most exciting startups in Southern California; a Cool Company.