Selected for a UNEP-backed global climate-tech accelerator — how TerraLux contributes to climate resilience and disaster risk reduction.
Welcome to the 2026 Cohort
We are delighted to share that Jarbits Pvt Ltd has been selected for the LowCarbon.Earth 2025 Bootcamp, joining the prestigious 2026 cohort. LowCarbon.Earth, backed by the Massive Earth Foundation and supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is a global climate-tech accelerator that has supported over 180 startups collectively raising more than $350 million. Being part of this cohort places Jarbits alongside some of the most innovative climate solution builders in the world.
This selection is not just a recognition of our technology — it is a validation of our conviction that AI-powered geospatial intelligence is a critical tool in humanity’s response to the climate crisis.
Why Climate-Tech Matters to Us
Climate change is not a distant threat. It is reshaping terrain stability, amplifying monsoon variability, and accelerating the frequency and intensity of landslides across India and the developing world. For us at Jarbits, climate-tech is not a market label — it is the context in which our core technology, TerraLux, operates and the reason it exists.
Consider the numbers: India has 147 landslide-vulnerable districts across 13 states, with over 50 million people exposed to recurring hazards. The 2024 Wayanad disaster — which devastated communities in Kerala — was a stark reminder that climate-change-intensified monsoon patterns are turning known vulnerabilities into active catastrophes. The gap between knowing a region is at risk and being able to predict specific failures is precisely the gap that TerraLux is designed to close.
How TerraLux Contributes to Climate Resilience
At its core, TerraLux is a platform for understanding how terrain responds to environmental stress. This makes it inherently a climate resilience tool. Here is how our technology directly addresses climate adaptation challenges:
Dynamic Risk Assessment Under Changing Conditions
Traditional landslide susceptibility maps are static — created once and rarely updated. TerraLux incorporates real-time precipitation data to dynamically model how rainfall weakens soil strength. Our physics-informed material modeling tracks cohesion reduction, friction angle changes, and unit weight increases as saturation levels rise. This means our risk assessments evolve with weather patterns, not despite them.
Temporal Intelligence for Seasonal Risk
Our spatio-temporal segmentation framework captures the seasonal rhythms of terrain vulnerability — from the gradual degradation during pre-monsoon periods to the critical instability during peak monsoon. By analyzing land use and land cover changes over decades, TerraLux understands not just current risk, but how urbanization, deforestation, and changing land-use patterns have altered the landscape’s resilience over time.
Enabling Evidence-Based Mitigation Investment
Climate adaptation requires smart allocation of limited resources. Currently, an estimated 15% of disaster mitigation budgets are misallocated due to imprecise risk maps. TerraLux’s high-resolution susceptibility mapping — using object-based image analysis rather than crude pixel-level approaches — is capable to direct investments precisely where they are needed most, ensuring that every rupee spent on climate adaptation delivers maximum protective impact.
Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Disaster Assessment
Traditional geospatial assessments require extensive fieldwork, manual surveys, and months of on-ground data collection — all with significant logistical and carbon costs. TerraLux reduces assessment timelines from 6–12 months to just 2 weeks by automating satellite data ingestion, feature engineering, and model training through its cloud-based pipeline. This means fewer field expeditions, fewer resources consumed, and faster turnaround — a sustainability gain in the assessment process itself.
From India to the World
While TerraLux is purpose-built for Indian terrain conditions — from Himalayan geology to Western Ghats topography — its architecture is designed for global transferability. Landslide-prone regions across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Africa share similar geological conditions, monsoon-driven climate patterns, and institutional challenges in disaster preparedness.
The LowCarbon.Earth accelerator provides us with the global network, mentorship, and ecosystem access to begin exploring these international applications. Climate change does not respect borders, and neither should climate solutions.
What This Program Means for Jarbits
Joining LowCarbon.Earth comes at a pivotal moment for Jarbits. In the past months, we have been recognized by MeitY as a Top 30 AI Solution addressing national challenges, incubated at SIIC, IIT Kanpur under the Udaan Program, received an incubation offer from IIIT Bangalore, and selected for the SBI Foundation LEAP grant. The LowCarbon.Earth selection adds an important dimension to our journey, positioning TerraLux not just as an Indian innovation, but as a global climate-tech solution.
The bootcamp, launching on 12 February 2026, will connect us with mentors, investors, and fellow founders building transformative climate solutions. We are eager to learn from this community and to contribute our expertise in geospatial AI to the broader climate-tech ecosystem.
Our Climate Commitment
At Jarbits, we believe that technology must serve a purpose larger than profit. Climate resilience is that purpose for us. Every susceptibility map we generate, every early warning we enable, and every community we help protect is a step toward a world that is better prepared for the environmental challenges ahead.
We are grateful to the LowCarbon.Earth team at Massive Earth Foundation for this opportunity and for believing in the power of geospatial AI to make a difference. To our fellow 2026 cohort members — we look forward to building alongside you.
To the communities we serve — we will continue building technology that matters.
About Jarbits: Jarbits Pvt Ltd is a deep-tech startup building AI-powered platforms for geospatial intelligence, enterprise AI, and autonomous aerial platforms. Incubated at SIIC, IIT Kanpur | Recognized by MeitY, Government of India | LowCarbon.Earth 2026 Cohort | 5G/6G CoE, IIT Kanpur.
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