Tomorrow.io banks $175 million for DeepSky weather constellation

SAN FRANCISCO – Tomorrow.io raised $175 million to fund DeepSky, a satellite constellation designed to gathering vast quantities of atmospheric data for artificial intelligence models.

With the money provided by private equity investors Stonecourt Capital and HarbourVest Partners, Tomorrow.io plans to rapidly expand its “space infrastructure and intelligence platform, enabling unprecedented global atmospheric sensing and decision-making capabilities,” according to the Feb. 3 news release.

In January, Tomorrow.io announced that its Gen1 constellation achieved a global 60-minute revisit rate for atmospheric observations with the Jan. 11 launch and speedy commissioning of its 10th and 11th microwave sounder satellites.

In contrast to the cubesats in the Gen1 constellation, DeepSky satellites will be equipped with “instruments of a completely different caliber,” Rei Goffer, Tomorrow.io co-founder and chief strategy officer, told SpaceNews in a recent interview. “We are not yet sharing what these sensors are, but we are saying that our satellites will carry multiple very-high-impact, co-located sensors.”

News of Tomorrow.io’s latest funding comes on the heels of the American Meteorological Society annual conference in Houston, where Commerce Department and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials underscored the value of commercial weather data and its promise for improving weather forecasts. Over 10 years, NOAA will ask Congress for as much as a billion dollars for commercial weather data programs, Taylor Jordan, Commerce Department assistant secretary for environmental observation and prediction and director of the Office of Space Commerce, said at the AMS meeting.

Continuous Sensing

Tomorrow.io, founded in 2016, has launched 13 satellites and developed an AI-driven platform that has attracted high-profile government and enterprise clients like Amazon and BNSF.

“Operational resilience now depends on treating atmospheric data with the same rigor as any other mission-critical infrastructure,” Nikhil Ahuja, Amazon senior planning and supply chain director, said in a statement. “The advancement in sensing and rapid refresh frequency DeepSky enables creates a new class of AI-driven decision systems that are more adaptive and localized.”

BNSF chief technology officer Matt Garland, said in a statement, “Modern supply chains can no longer rely on static planning or historical averages. True resilience comes from continuously sensing operating conditions and translating that intelligence into network-wide decisions.”

Investor Support

Stonecourt Capital began investing in Boston-based Tomorrow.io in 2021.

“From the beginning, we believed in the team’s vision, technical depth, and ability to execute,” Eric Gribetz, Stonecourt Capital managing director, said in a statement. “Over the past several years, Tomorrow.io has consistently delivered against that vision, and we are proud to deepen our partnership and support the company as it continues to build a category-defining platform.”

Peter Lipson, HarbourVest Partners managing director, said in a statement that Tomorrow.io “is uniquely positioned at the intersection of space, data, and critical decision-making.”