Abhilasha Purwar
- Co-Founder and CEO at Blue Sky Analytics
GetLatka interview
How Blue Sky Analytics Raised $1.2M at a $7M Valuation and Signed 8 Customers for Its Satellite Environmental Datasets (Interview with Co-Founder Abhilasha Purwar)
Abhilasha Purwar (Co-Founder and CEO of Blue Sky Analytics) spoke to Nathan Latka on October 27, 2021.
Blue Sky Analytics figures from the interview
- Seed Funding Raised (2020)
- $1.2M
- Customers (2021)
- 8
- Avg Contract Value (2021)
- $100K
- Team Size (2021)
- 20
- Year Founded
- 2019
“So we take satellite data, large volumes of it, about 30 terabytes plus and ground sensors, and we use this data to give more spatial and temporal resolution.”
“I think it'd be good to say that we do 100 ks a year.”
“So we started in January 2019. We're going to finish three years. We started in my living room actually just there. Me and my brother and two of our first engineers and we were all literally operating out of my savings because I used to work at a private equity firm in Connecticut before this.”
Bio
Fulbright scholar, Yale|IIT alum having 10+ years of work experience in private equity, big data analytics, product development & environmental policy. I began my career as an RA at J-PAL, working closely with India's Ministry of Environment on air pollution regulation. After completing my Masters, I worked on: building flexible solar cells in Dublin; kickstarting a solar product and asset financing startup at PEG Africa; and investing in clean energy at GoldenSet Capital. In 2019, I founded Blue Sky Analytics.