About us

Care Weather’s name comes from its commitment to never put life-saving warnings behind a paywall and its mission to make Earth more habitable. Our data unlocks superintelligent weather simulations that produce prophetic disaster warnings and prescribe cures to hurricanes, tornadoes, and torrential rains. That requires an increase to the global supply of weather data of more than 10X. To that end, Care Weather is aggressively driving down satellite size and cost to prepare for mass production. While other in-situ weather systems are important, satellites are uniquely capable of scaling to global coverage and real-time monitoring.

Weather satellites have stagnated since the 90s, taking decades and billions of dollars to build. Care Weather was founded by Patrick Walton and Alex Laraway after their student satellite advisor, Dr. David G. Long, pointed out this stagnation for the surface weather radars (scatterometers) that measure ocean surface vector winds. He would know since he led NASA JPL’s Radar Projects Office and helped develop the scatterometer technology behind NSCAT and QuikSCAT. Despite its impact on science and forecasting, the U.S. has not launched a dedicated successor satellite since QuikSCAT’s rotating antenna failed in 2009.