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Intensel

Entrepreneur First '19

Hong Kong, HK · Founded 2019 · 11 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors

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Intensel operates an AI-powered platform and APIs that quantify extreme weather and physical climate risk at the individual asset level, translating hazard data into financial metrics such as Climate Value at Risk and Average Annual Loss. It serves central banks, asset managers, insurers, real estate owners, and consulting firms for investment decisions, resilience planning, and regulatory reporting.

Also known as Intensel Limited

Founders & leadership

Intensel was founded in 2019 by Entela Benz and Saurabh Singh.

EBEntela Benz
Entela BenzCo-founder · Chief Executive OfficerEntela Benz holds a PhD in Financial Asset Management and Engineering from HEC Lausanne and previously worked at UBS Investment Bank developing derivatives strategies for Asia-Pacific and at a Geneva-based hedge fund. She is the founder and CEO of Intensel, an AI-powered climate risk platform serving financial institutions and asset managers, and has taught derivatives and climate risk investing at HKUST Business School since 2008.
SSSaurabh Singh
Saurabh SinghCo-Founder & Chief Technology Officer2019–2022Saurabh Singh holds a PhD in Climate Change from Nanyang Technological University Singapore and brings 11+ years of experience in climate risk modeling and research, including roles as a Research Scientist at Tsinghua University studying climate implications for urban infrastructure, flood consultant to Berkshire Hathaway designing catastrophe models, and climate risk director at KPMG Singapore.

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Intensel is a climate risk analytics company that quantifies how extreme weather events — rainfall and riverine flooding, storm surge, tropical cyclones/typhoons, wildfires and other perils — affect individual physical assets and the businesses that own or finance them, both under present conditions and under forward-looking climate scenarios. Its outputs are delivered through an asset-level analytics platform, hazard data layers, and APIs, with export options in JSON, CSV and Excel formats and encrypted data storage.

The product line comprises three offerings. The Climate Data Analytics Platform combines a proprietary hydrology digital twin with an insurance-style financial framework (Hazard × Exposure × Vulnerability) to produce flood depth and velocity, Climate Value at Risk, Average Annual Loss, credit spread adjustments and operational disruption estimates; users can screen portfolios across more than 20 hazards, model co-occurring events such as a typhoon generating simultaneous storm surge and extreme rainfall, and run SSP/RCP scenario projections on monthly, yearly or multi-year horizons out to 2100. Maps as a Service provides direct access to Intensel's physics-based hazard layers — flood depth and velocity, storm surge extents, wildfire risk zones — via API or data layers for embedding in clients' own GIS, underwriting or portfolio systems. The Hazard Deep Dive runs asset-specific probabilistic pluvial flood simulations using the digital twin engine together with HEC-RAS, accounting for terrain, urban and coastal flow dynamics, and site infrastructure such as drainage, flood walls and levees, and pairs loss estimation with retrofitting cost analysis for adaptation planning.

Reporting functions include a TCFD-aligned climate risk report intended to support customers' climate-related disclosures, and the platform is positioned as customisable to specific assets, locations or portfolios, with a dedicated customer relationship manager for onboarding.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Flood extent accuracy validated against satellite imageryJan 202694%
Global coverageJan 202675%
Hazards/perils modelledJan 202620 hazards (20+)
Mapped assetsJan 20261,690,000,000 assets
Model accuracy vs real-time extreme weather eventsJan 202680%

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 4

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2023
Hong Kong ICT Awards 2023: FinTech Award winner

Named among the winners of the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2023 FinTech Award, announced by The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers (HKIB).

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Jan 2023
Recognised among top climate risk management providers, HKMA Green Fintech Competition

Listed among top climate risk management providers in the 2023 Hong Kong Monetary Authority Green Fintech Competition.

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Jan 2023
Won Global Sustainable Finance Technology Challenge at COP28 UAE Climate Summit

Intensel announced as winner of the Global Sustainable Finance Technology Challenge at the COP28 UAE Climate Summit.

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Jan 2020
Winner of the Global FinTech Innovation Challenge by the Monetary Authority of Singapore

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

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Frequently asked questions

What does Intensel do?
Hong Kong-based provider of AI-driven extreme weather and flood risk analytics for financial, real estate and insurance clients.
Who founded Intensel?
Intensel was founded by Entela Benz, Saurabh Singh in 2019.
Who are Intensel's investors?
Intensel's investors include ADB Ventures, Entrepreneur First.
Where is Intensel headquartered?
Intensel is headquartered in Hong Kong, HK.