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Cervest
Climate intelligence
- 101-200 employees
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Sustainability
- Machine Learning
- SaaS
- Fitzrovia, London, UK
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Company mission
To change the way decision-makers adapt to climate volatility.
Our take
According to a Cervest survey, the vast majority of businesses have already been impacted by climate volatility and recognize its bottom line impacts, yet less than half have a plan in place to bring climate change into their decision making. Companies are confident in their ability to manage climate-related risk, yet many say they need more resources and better insights in order to succeed.
Cervest is a B2B AI company that specialises in developing cutting-edge machine learning technology designed to help businesses, institutions and producers better adapt to changing climate conditions. The company's edge comes in part from its founders extensive agribusiness experience. Cervest's team are hired from educational institutions like Cambridge, UC Berkeley and the Alan Turing Institute, as well as companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft
It is a high-profile company that is continuing to draw top talent and investment. Its B Corp certification also consolidates its credibility as an organisation dedicated to mitigating climate change. Further, Cervest's recently announced Climate Intelligence Council will bring together global leaders with the hope to promote climate intelligence across industries.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- As a B-Corp we balance purpose with profit and do right by our people, our customers and partners, and the planet
- Equality at work is non-negotiable. We recruit inclusively and are certified Disability Confident
- We offer wide-ranging mental health support connecting our team with qualified therapists live or async
- We give team members everything that’s needed to set up a remote working space
- We offer stock options and competitive holiday allowances based on location
- We provide a personal development stipend for learning and development
Company values
- We're objective
- We're curious
- We're humble
- We believe in being beneficent
- We are a community
- We prize integrity
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2021
$30m
SERIES A
Nov 2019
$4.7m
SEED
Total funding: $35.8m
Leadership
Iggy Bassi
(CEO)Studied Management at Cambridge before joining the Monitor Group as a Management Consultant. Then co-founded Renaissance Ventures and Cadrion Technologies in 1999. Returned to Monitor and worked in Private Equity Development. Went on to found Agropolo and GADCO, both in the agribusiness and sustainability sectors. Founded Cervest in 2016.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cervest
Liane Rainbow (Head of People Operations)
- Cervest is committed to fostering a diverse team who are able to work in a truly inclusive environment and we recognise this will be a continual journey for us as an organisation
- We have partnered with FairHQ to ensure that we are utilising evidence and best practice to build our recruitment, promotion and review processes
- We are developing employee resource groups to support our team members in bringing their whole selves to work
- We provide training to hiring managers around unconscious bias and inclusive recruitment practices
- We would always encourage you to apply if you think you may be qualified for a role and we are committed to selecting people based on merit
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Challenging work (1)
Intelligent people (1)
People of all backgrounds are welcomed (1)
Making climate intelligence a globally understood phenomenon is a huge piece of work and a great mission for the company. We're growing rapidly and the objectives consistently challenge and stretch the teams to achieve more. There's a really strong vision and working to achieve that is pretty inspiring.
People, HR, Recruitment
Challenging work
Jun 2021
Everyone in the company is so smart and, even more importantly, incredibly welcoming and willing to share their knowledge. That happens 1:1 and through structured sessions like reading groups and similar which helps me learn every day.
People, HR, Recruitment
Intelligent people
Jun 2021
From a values focused interview (which is explicitly not about cultural fit) through to active EDI groups and working to ensure that non-UK team members are genuinely included, people from all backgrounds are enthusiastically included and welcomed to the team informally. The People team are also working with a wide group across the company to set up more formal structures like training that will enable this to scale.
People, HR, Recruitment
People of all backgrounds are welcomed
Jun 2021