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US weather startup Tomorrow.io adds $35m to series F

Tomorrow.io, a US weather forecasting startup founded by Israelis, said on May 18 that it raised an additional US$35 million from Pitango and other investors, bringing its series F round to US$210 million.

The new funding follows a US$175 million raise earlier this year and will go to DeepSky, the company’s commercial satellite constellation, as well as space infrastructure and AI platform development.

Founded in 2016, Tomorrow.io has raised about US$535 million in total and employs more than 150 people, including a small team in Israel.

🔗 Source: Calcalist

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Implications, context, and why it matters.

The funding backs an automated decision engine alongside satellites

  • The “DeepSky” constellation is the company’s second network. It follows a 13-satellite system that reaches a 60-minute global revisit rate for atmospheric observations 1.
  • DeepSky will use newer multi-sensor instruments to raise observation density and shorten refresh cycles for AI forecasting, beyond what older weather systems offer 2.
  • That stream feeds Gale, an “agentic” AI platform that does more than forecast. It runs operational playbooks, or predefined actions for specific business situations 3.
  • In insurance or aviation, Gale can track asset exposure before storms or guide flight and operations choices. The company says this turns weather intelligence into business action 4.

Tomorrow.io offers a template for vertical AI

  • The strategy moves from selling raw data to selling operational results. The company says enterprise customers including Amazon and BNSF, one of North America’s largest freight railroad operators, back that approach 1.
  • The company combines its own space infrastructure, specialized AI, and workflow automation. That approach lines up with broader discussion of agentic AI systems, though “highly replicable” is an interpretation rather than a sourced claim 5.
  • A similar setup may spread to fields such as agriculture or logistics, where control of the full data-to-decision pipeline can create an edge.
  • This shifts the company from a data-as-a-service vendor to an operational tool inside customer workflows, in line with its description of the platform as decision support 6.

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