Jatin Singh

Pioneer in private sector initiative in weather forecasting and information services in India. An idea that has now incubated into an Agri-tech company with a heart. Taking Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to ground that helps the small loader farmer. Always fascinated with weather even as a 17 year old and a professional journalist. Singh launched Skymet in 2003 with the intention of providing reliable and accessible weather forecasts. Today, Skymet has close to 7500 Automated Weather Stations (AWS), 27 lightning detectors and 200 air quality sensors installed across the country, that provide accurate and reliable hourly data to the people. In addition, Skymet has set up about 400 agricultural sensors that enable farmers to understand their crops at a micro scale and thereby maximize their yield. Also, Founder of Gramcover, that brings innovative approach for insurance distribution in rural India with effective use of technology. GramCover aims to target developing non subsidized customized crop insurance solutions largely for commercial crops where farmer’s are looking for crop / weather peril specific risk coverage. GramCover will be online insurance brand that will bring transparency and faith to farmers through instant access

Skymet Weather is India's largest private sector weather forecasting, monitoring & agriculture risk solutions company, experts in measuring, predicting & limiting climate risk. It has the capability to create hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal & long term forecasts including monsoon; employs its own team of operational meteorology, numeric weather prediction modeling (NWP), remote sensing, statistical data analysis, software/ computing & multimedia & has a well-equipped in-house studio replete with a TV production team. It has both govt & pvt sector clients in Agriculture (advisories & remote sensing based crop yield, acreage & health estimation) Insurance (crop insurance claim settlement & crop cutting experiments), Commodities (pre- season commodity procurement risk in different geographies & advance production estimates), Financial Institutions (agri credit risk management in different states/ districts based on weather/ monsoon forecast), Offshore Oil & Gas (marine weather forecast), Power (load & renewable power forecasting) & Weather Instrumentation. Data from its 3000+ Automatic Weather Stations spread across the country, consolidated local inputs through integrated use of smart phones & sensors mounted on its drones (UAV's) along with cadastral information taken from govt sources, have been the inputs for advanced crop simulation models to arrive at very high accuracy yield data that can be adopted for large area studies while maintaining cost advantages. It has India’s first lightening detection network with 20 systems countrywide which can track every lightening strike real time & send an automated alert 30 minutes in advance. Skymet customizes solutions for client specific requirements & covers more than 7000 locations upto the village level across the country with its forecasts which are available on www.skymetweather.com. It is backed by Omnivore Capital & DMGT.