Brightband
Environmental Science · Geospatial AI
Overview
Brightband develops open artificial intelligence weather models trained on public observation archives. Founded in 2024 in San Francisco by former Google and climate science leaders, it publishes benchmarks and data openly. The company aims to make skilful forecasting accessible outside a handful of national centres.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$10M
1 round on record
Latest round
$10M
Venture round · Sep 2024 · 2 yr ago
The money's age
Long since its last round
25 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
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Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
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Web presence
top 0.85%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Sep 2024 | $10M | — | donews.com |
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Financials
Total raised
$10M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $10M | Details |
News
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AI Series: AI-Powered Extreme Weather Modeling is on the Horizon
Meteorologist Dr. Amy McGovern describes how AI-powered private weather modeling services is shaking up notions of what is possible for U.S. forecasting.
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Startup founded by ex-Google exec to use AI to forecast weather The Seattle Times 2024-09-23
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Brightband sees a bright (and open source) future for AI-powered weather forecasting
Research certainly suggests so, and a newly funded startup called Brightband is taking a shot at turning machine learning forecast models into both a business and open source standard. Today
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Brightband sees a bright (and open source) future for AI-powered weather forecasting
Research certainly suggests so, and a newly funded startup called Brightband is taking a shot at turning machine learning forecast models into both a business and open source standard. Today
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The Startup Making the Weather a Hot Investment
Brightband emerges from stealth to commercialize AI-weather forecasting.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco
United States
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