LinkedIn post · Feb 2026
A post about Sorcerer noted partnerships with companies like Palantir Technologies and selection by the National Weather Service as a data collection partner.
Building a nervous system for the atmosphere
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Sorcerer builds a global network of persistent high-altitude balloons and airborne sensors to collect atmospheric data and power high-resolution weather forecasting, including its Stratocast product for airborne operations.
Primary product
Stratocast
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Climate Data and Analytics
Sub-industry
Weather forecasting / atmospheric data infrastructure
Offices
40 Isis St, San Francisco, CA
466 Brannan St, San Francisco, California 94107, United States
12000 15th Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98125, United States
Business model
B2B enterprise weather-data services
request-a-demo sales-led software and data product
hardware-enabled atmospheric sensing
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$4.5M
Latest round
Seed Round · Jun 2025
Latest amount
$3.9M
People & investors
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Founder and Chief Product Officer
Head of Manufacturing
Founding Atmospheric Scientist
Investors
10100
Collaborative Fund
Craft Ventures
Cullen McAlpine
Evolution Equity Partners
First Order Fund
FirstMark Capital
FundersClub
Kulveer Taggar
Nate Matherson
National Science Foundation
New Legacy
Oleg Rogynskyy
Pioneer Fund
Race Capital
Rick Yang
Scale Asia Ventures
Taro Fukuyama
Todd Pedersen
Transpose Platform
Y Combinator
Work & culture
Publicly described as a small, highly capable team with extreme ownership and strong day-to-day impact; the company emphasizes speed, hands-on execution, and onsite work with a few remote contractors.
Work style
Onsite
Product & market
Pricing
Request-a-demo / enterprise sales
Differentiators
- —persistent solar-powered balloons that stay airborne for months
- —collects 1000x more data than existing systems
- —focus on under-observed regions over oceans and below the equator
- —Stratocast is tailored for airborne operations
- —regional forecasts with sub-0.1° spatial resolution
- —improved vertical granularity via more pressure levels
- —data already used daily by meteorologists
Technology
prototype
Altium
pytest
Onshape
Siemens NX
I2C
Siemens
Altium Designer
Python
Git
Impact
Customers
meteorologists
airborne operations teams
commercial aviation
aerospace operators
ocean freight
logistics
commodities trading
government and military agencies
Competitors
WindBorne Systems
Tomorrow.io
Atmo
Visual Crossing
Scepter
Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology
Ex Machina
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
<$5M
Latest news
LinkedIn post · Jan 2026
Austin Tindle shared early technical results on assimilating long-duration balloon observations into AI weather models.
LinkedIn post · Jan 2026
Austin Tindle announced that Sorcerer was selected by the NSF for its flagship innovation program.
LinkedIn post · Jan 2026
Austin Tindle described Sorcerer’s persistent, solar-powered weather balloons and said the company launched its fleet in 2025 and partnered with Stripe to share the story.
Axios · Jun 2025
Axios reported Sorcerer raised a $3.9 million seed round and framed the company as a weather-balloon startup helping companies and governments navigate extreme-weather risk.
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