Turns out investors like the intersection of big data and weather. On Thursday morning six-year-old Climate Corporation announced that it has raised another round of $50 million, led by the Founders Fund and including existing investors. Read more »
Startup WeatherBill has built a business around offering farmers financial protection against weather, but the underlying goal of the company has always been to help companies adapt to a changing climate, the company’s CEO and Co-Founder David Friedberg told me. Read more »
Mark down yet another clean power project that Google plans to back. This morning, Google announced that it’s providing $55 million for part of the construction of a 1.5 GW wind farm being built by Terra-Gen Power in Southern California’s Mojave Desert. Read more »
Weather data tools and technologies for adapting to climate change are the next hot place for innovation. Weather insurance startup WeatherBill announced it has raised a second funding round of $42 million from Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures, and including existing investors. Read more »
Cleantech advisor to Google Ventures, Kenneth Davies, says he and Google are looking into ways that Google could make weather forecasting data better, which in turn could be used to make the power grid smarter. Read more »
Location data is commonly used in the mobile and web industries as a platform for applications. Now, weather data could drive some very important next generation services and applications forward. Read more »
The winds are still strong but not as ferocious as they have been since last night so we’ve been able to begin a very preliminary assessment of the damage that Ike inflicted. I’ve mentioned the uprooted tree in the back yard, it may be salvageable I […] Read more »
