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Orange Monk Labs CEO Named Winner of NASA’s Sustainable Business Model Challenge

Boulder, CO — 9/17/2025 — Orange Monk Labs announced today that its CEO, Adolfo Perez-Duran, has been named one of the winners of NASA’s Sustainable Business Model Challenge. The competition, hosted through NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation, sought bold new approaches to building resilient and scalable business models for the future.

The winning submission from Orange Monk Labs focused on addressing one of the biggest bottlenecks in artificial intelligence for Earth applications: access to high-quality, machine-learning-ready training datasets from satellite imagery. By curating and delivering “bottomless” datasets at scale, low cost, and on demand, the company enables researchers, startups, and enterprises to accelerate solutions in infrastructure resilience, agriculture, disaster response, water monitoring, and beyond.

“This recognition is both humbling and energizing,” said Adolfo, CEO of Orange Monk Labs. “It affirms our belief that sustainability must be designed into the very systems we build. By making high-quality training and inference data abundant and accessible, we can unlock innovation that addresses humanity’s greatest challenges.”

NASA’s Sustainable Business Model Challenge reflects the agency’s commitment to exploring new ways of sustaining innovation across science, technology, and entrepreneurship.

Orange Monk Labs is working on building collaboration with universities, startups, research institutions, and global enterprises.

About Orange Monk Labs
Orange Monk Labs is dedicated to accelerating machine learning innovation by removing the bottleneck of training and inference data preparation. The company curates, cleans, and delivers high-quality, labeled datasets from satellite imagery at scale, enabling faster breakthroughs in climate tech, food security, disaster resilience, and sustainable development.

Media Contact:
Adolfo Perez-Duran; media@orangemonk.net