About Us
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
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...
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Benchmark Labs Launches In-Situ Evapotranspiration Forecasts
Benchmark Labs the leading provider of AI & IoT-driven weather forecasting solutions for the agriculture, energy, and insurance sectors is pleased to announce the global launch of their in-situ evapotranspiration forecasting technology. We previously talked about...
Benchmark Labs Selected As 2022 Cool Company
CALIFORNIA – 24 March 2022 – Benchmark Labs Inc. (Benchmark Labs), a leading provider of asset-specific environmental forecasting solutions is selected as a 2022 Cool Company by Connect San Diego. Connect San Diego defines a Cool Company as one of the fastest, most...
Meet Marshall Borrus — Benchmark Labs Deployed Engineer
2022 APRIL 07 -- We are very excited to announce a new addition to the team! Marshall Borrus joins Benchmark Labs as a Deployed Engineer with experience from Stanford University as a Research and Project Assistant as well as experience in the winemaking industry....
Meet Tom Cuppernull — Benchmark Labs Chief Product Officer
2022 MARCH 14 -- We are very excited to announce a new addition to the team! Tom Cuppernull joins Benchmark Labs as Chief Product Officer (CPO) with extensive product experience from Bloomberg LP with a focus on machine learning and data visualization. Let's learn a...
Metos USA Becomes A Benchmark Labs Preferred Hardware Provider
CALIFORNIA – 19 January 2022 – Benchmark Labs Inc. (Benchmark Labs), a leading provider of asset-specific environmental forecasting solutions and Metos USA by Pessl Instruments, a leading provider of IoT-driven weather sensors are excited to announce an integration...
Aclymate Certifies Benchmark Labs As A Climate Leader
COLORADO – 15 January 2022 – Benchmark Labs Inc. (Benchmark Labs), a leading provider of asset-specific environmental forecasting solutions becomes certified as a Climate Leader by Aclymate a provider of small business climate solutions. This certification means...
Benchmark Labs and AkinovA Unveil Macro Risk Data & Analytics Partnership
LONDON – 2nd November 2021 – Benchmark Labs Inc. (Benchmark Labs), a leading provider of asset-specific environmental forecasting solutions, and AkinovA Limited (AkinovA), an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of insurance risk, today, announce a...