About Us
Resilience AI started with Cyclone Yaas, which was a setback for People, Profit and Planet in India and Bangladesh. Climate scenario based early warning, climate action plans, relief and recovery funding are conventional drills. This drill, however, doesn’t prepare Earth’s companies and governments. The cost of inaction is at least 5X of the cost of proactive action. Resilience AI was incorporated in November 2023 after 22 months of extensive collaboration amongst climate actors; sustainability and health experts, environmental scientists, architects, planners, and climate engineers.
The mission is to prepare and protect the 60% unaccounted business, assets, lives during climate crisis using Resilience360, the first climate enterprise software. The software prepares business and governments for climate risk as a lifecycle and not in silos.
Founder’s Note
“As climate change continues to redefine global landscape, cities and businesses face unprecedented challenges that test their preparedness. The urgency of integrating livelihood and business continuity strategies is underscored by the financial repercussions of neglecting these evolving climate risks. This new era demands a proactive approach to safeguard economic stability and business operations, thereby ensuring long-term resilience amidst an increasingly unpredictable climate behaviour.”
Meet the founders
Samhita is a visionary driver of change and a believer of impact. She co-founded Resilience AI with the aim of building climate resilience with technology.
She is from the northeastern belt of India, which experiences significant loss of assets and livelihood every year due to floods. “While nature may be seasonally unkind, resilience doesn’t need to be seasonal. Climate resilience should be a 365-day conversation.” She co-founded Resilience360.ai with the aim of building climate resilience with technology.
She has repeatedly build and operated new businesses for two decades, from ideation to sustenance, across industries, such as sustainability, technology, government, healthcare, renewable energy, smart cities, and connected buildings at Fortune multi-national corporations Ernst & Young, Honeywell, General Electric, Microsoft.
Samhita is a business architect and innovator. She has served People, Planet and Profit in Asia and Europe and is passionate about customer-owned enterprises.
Samhita believes in creating sustainable impact and leaving a legacy for the next generation. She is a graduate from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad (India).
Sundeep is an action-oriented leader building systems for solving complex problems of the Knowledge Ecosystem. Over past 18 years he has conceptualized, built and scaled impactful solutions across Climate, ESG, Telecom, Banking and Financial Institutions and Social Enterprises. His expertise extends to setting up ESG Business Units and Data Science Centres of Excellence.
Working across North America, India and Middle East, he has shaped his views on #ClimateAction. “Current approach and solution will not help us retain our goal of 1.5C increase in temperature by 2100. To give our future generations a fighting chance for sustainable living newer solutions must be researched and implemented. “
Sundeep is a 5th generation farmer from Telangana. the vagaries of Climate change are a familiar story back home. This combined with unpredictable and recurrent natural hazards has pushed the climate resilience conversation to mainstream. He strongly believes nations and businesses alike can no longer ignore climate risk in each action we take.
Sundeep has two boys, and often finds himself taking climate inspiration (and career advice!) from them these days. He is a graduate of Symbiosis Center for Management and Human Resource Development, Pune
Dr. Anshu has myriad avatars in sustainability and environment, as an academician, thought leader and innovator. However, he remains singularly known for being a deep-rooted change catalyst for the community.
He co-founded SEEDS (Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society) a not-for-profit organization. Three decades of service towards displaced households, damaged physical assets, and burdened livelihoods induced by climate, has been the mission of SEEDS. Today, SEEDS is a global leader in disaster resilience systems and humanitarian innovation accoladed by India’s highest award for disaster management and United Nations with the prestigious Sasakawa award.
He co-founded STS Global in 2009, as an impact advisory organization which co-builds-owns-operates-transfers climate preparedness solutions to ensure resilient communities, with community-centric, and scalable interventions. The solutions of STS global aim at creating a future-proof world.
As an advisor, Dr. Sharma has lent his expertise to United Nations agencies, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, International Red Cross. He has provided invaluable technical assessments, planning, and capacity building for disaster management to governments and organizations worldwide. Notably, he served as an advisor to the Government of Nepal for post-earthquake recovery planning in 2015 and has undertaken technical assignments in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Haiti, and Sri Lanka.