PlanetiQ
George Ugras serves as the Managing Director at AV8 Ventures since February 2018, focusing on investments in early-stage start-ups. Ugras holds multiple positions, including Board Member at PlanetiQ and UCSF Health Hub, and Board Member at Locomation. As an Investor, Ugras contributes to Alpha Medical, Phenomic AI, and SWIFT SHIFT. Additionally, Ugras is the Co-Founder of CyteGen, an organization dedicated to discovering treatments for significant diseases affecting the aging population. Ugras also serves as the Director at Contract Wrangler, Inc., and is involved with Caltech/JPL's Committee for Space Electronics. Academic credentials include a PhD in Applied Physics from Yale University and a BS in Physics from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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PlanetiQ
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PlanetIQ utilizes commercial satellite constellations to provide weather data for on-the-ground decision-making. The costs of natural disasters are soaring as extreme weather increases and the population expands, putting more and more lives and property at risk. Meanwhile, smarter and more powerful weather and climate models are hungry for thedata they need to produce more precise forecasts on time scales ranging from hourly to decadal.Yet the traditional model for government-funded satellite programs has not kept up with today’s technology and the rising demand for data. Aging spacecraft, budget constraints, and schedule delays threaten critical gaps in data crucial to monitoring and predicting day-to-day weather, hurricanes and winter storms, floods and drought, space weather, and climate change.