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Nov 27, 2017ยท 3 min, 45 sec

Tomorrow.io Raises $15 Million to Provide Weather Sensitive Industries with Military Grade Forecast Precision

BOSTON, MA โ€” November 27, 2017 โ€” Today, Tomorrow.io, a software-based hyper-local weather forecasting company, announced that the company has closed $15 million in Series A funding. Tomorrow.io creates proprietary weather observation data from wireless networks that then feed intoย its models. The results pinpoint weather prediction down to city-block-level granularity in real-time and at one minute intervals 0-6 hours in the future for businesses and government agencies.

Canaan led the financing round with participation from Fontinalis Partners, as well as existing investor Square Peg Capital. The latest investment will be used to accelerate Tomorrow.ioโ€™s expansion outside of the U.S., speed product development efforts and support new hires.

โ€œNearly $3 trillion of the U.S. economyโ€™s GDP is at risk due to weather every year and Tomorrow.ioโ€™s technology is poised to help verticals like aviation, insurance, financial services, logistics and defense change that,โ€ said Rich Boyle, General Partner at Canaan who is joining Tomorrow.ioโ€™s board. โ€œBy shifting from forecasting to more accurate, granular, real-time predictions โ€“ what we call โ€œnowcasting,โ€ Tomorrow.io is changing the way massive industries assess, manage and make decisions around weather risk.โ€

Tomorrow.ioโ€™s current offerings, which serve customers in financial services, broadcast media, retail, construction, aviation, automotive and on-demand economy companies currently include, HyperCastโ„ข a web-based interactive HD weather map, which provides street-level precision that is 10x better than other weather sources and API, which opens up Tomorrow.ioโ€™s unique weather sensing technology to be integrated with any digital enterprise or to be offered as part of any SaaS-based solution.

โ€œThe Tomorrow.io team is excited about the opportunities in the market and the ability to rapidly scale our technology worldwide,โ€ said Shimon Elkabetz, CEO and Co-Founder, Tomorrow.io. โ€œWe are thrilled about the support and confidence we have received from our investors and look forward to continuing to provide the most accurate weather data technologies to our customers.โ€

While Tomorrow.ioโ€™s software serves a variety of industries, some of its most impactful and immediate use cases lie in the aviation and mobility sectors. As a result, the company has attracted investment from leading venture capital firms within each of these industries.

Tomorrow.ioโ€™s technology also gives organizations across the mobility space a similar ability to reduce weather-related inefficiencies, and to incorporate real-time weather data into business processes. ย โ€œFontinalis invests in the most impactful companies across mobility,โ€ said Chris Cheever, co-founder and partner at Fontinalis. โ€œTomorrow.ioโ€™s cutting-edge technology enables the mobility industry to harness weather data in entirely new ways, driving operational efficiencies and unlocking new value for businesses in mobility sub-sectors such as aviation, connected cars, logistics, on-demand services, and many others. We are excited about the opportunity and to be affiliated with this great team and group of investors.โ€

About Tomorrow.io:

Tomorrow.io, Inc. is a Boston-based weather technology company that provides high-definition weather forecasting tools to businesses and governments worldwide. Tomorrow.io is the first to offer instant access to actionable, street-level weather data in real-time. For more information, please visit Tomorrow.io and follow on Twitter @WeatherRevealed

About Canaan:

Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. Over the past 30 years and with $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world’s leading technology and healthcare companies. Canaanโ€™s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health and medtech. To learn more about our people and our portfolio, please visitย canaan.com.

Aboutย Fontinalisย Partners:

Fontinalisย Partners, with offices inย Detroitย andย Boston, is a venture capital firm strategically focused on next-generation mobility. The firm was founded in 2009 byย Bill Ford,ย Ralph Booth,ย Chris Cheever,ย Chris Thomas, andย Mark Schulz.ย Fontinalisย invests across all facets of the world’s mobility systems on a stage- and size-agnostic basis. More information is available atย www.fontinalis.com.

About SquarePeg:

SquarePegย is a global technology venture capital investor with offices in Australia, Israel and the United States. Our approach is to back outstanding entrepreneurs solving big problems in a differentiated way.ย  We are a group of individuals united by a passion for technology and its potential to change our world.ย  We partner with outstanding entrepreneurs that are building online and technology leaders ofย tomorrowย and support them by leveraging our decades of experience building, investing in and advising technology businesses, from start-up to multi-billion dollar public enterprises.

 

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