Climingo, a weather forecast benchmarking startup, has raised £290,000 in funding led by Carbon13, with participation from OnePlanetCapital and Innovate UK.
The platform is an independent marketplace for weather forecasting, assessing major forecasters and newer AI models against a customer's exact location, variables and decision thresholds. Scoring covers accuracy, event detection and false alarm rate, comparing what each forecaster predicted with what actually happened, before matching businesses to the best fit at no cost to the customer. No single forecaster gets it right everywhere, and until now none of the world's 200-plus weather forecasters had been independently assessed on how they actually perform. During the August heatwave, Climingo tracked predictions from ECMWF, GFS and the Met Office that differed by 2.8°C for the national peak, rising to 4.4°C at city level.
Insured losses from weather-related catastrophes reached $107 billion in 2025, according to Swiss Re, with wildfires, storms and floods now driving a record 92% of all insured natural catastrophe losses worldwide. A few degrees can decide whether concrete is poured on time, whether a trading position worth millions holds, or whether a flood risk is spotted early, among the thousands of daily decisions businesses base on weather forecasts.
Co-founders Dr Avi Baruch and Alper Dincer met through Carbon13's venture builder programme, where the business was founded. Baruch previously co-founded flood forecasting company Previsico, taking the Loughborough University spinout to Series A with multi-million pound revenues. Dincer, Climingo's CTO, has more than 20 years' experience building geospatial and drought-monitoring systems for governments and the UN, and created Drought.UK, a free platform tracking drought risk across Britain.
Funding will be used to scale the platform, expand provider coverage and grow partnerships across key sectors for weather forecasting. Organisations across energy, insurance, construction and other weather-exposed industries can request a free evaluation.
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 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.
