WindBorne Systems, a Palo Alto, CA-based weather and climate tech company, raised $6M in Seed Funding.
The round was led by Footwork, and included Khosla Ventures, Pear VC, Ubiquity Ventures, Harvest Ventures, and Humba Ventures, among others.
The company intends to use the funds to scale its data collection capabilities and make key hires.
Led by CEO John Dean, WindBorne is a weather company selling data & forecasts to governments and businesses. It designs, builds, and operates a constellation of long-duration, smart weather balloons that can access critical data needed today to fight climate change.
With this financing, the company will be able to scale operations from several flights per day, to hundreds of concurrent balloons by the end of 2024. WindBorne is also expanding their sensor suite beyond the sensors typically used in weather observation–temperature, pressure, wind speed, and humidity. Ultimately, WindBorne plans to continuously operate tens of thousands of balloons, providing constant, comprehensive atmospheric awareness and dramatically better forecasts.
Customers include U.S. military and federal meteorology divisions.
