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Sorcerer

Building a nervous system for the atmosphere

Y CombinatorSummer 2024ActiveIndustrialsClimateArtificial IntelligenceHard TechHardwareClimate

What they do

Problem

Weather forecasting and extreme weather tracking are limited by insufficient high-resolution atmospheric data.

Solution

Sorcerer deploys a global network of persistent high-altitude balloon sensors that collect vastly more atmospheric data for advanced forecasting.

Who it's for

Meteorologists and weather agencies that monitor and forecast extreme weather.

Founders

Austin Tindle
Founder/CEO

CEO at Sorcerer. Engineering and product leader of decacorn hardware teams. Previously Head of Product at SumUp, led acquisition of Fivestars (YC W11).

Maxmillion McLaughlin
Founder/CTO

CTO of Sorcerer. Previously, first hire at Urban Sky where I led development of high-resolution stratospheric imaging systems for mapping cities and tracking wildfires.

Alessandro Vecchi
Founder/CPO

CPO of Sorcerer. I was employee #3 at Urban Sky, where I built their mission control software ("the best in the world" - US Secretary of Defense) and prediction engine from the ground up. Over 5 years of experience working with/dealing with forecast and weather data. Building software products since I was in high school.

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