Rainmaker and Atmo Announce Strategic Alliance to Transform Weather Modification With AI-Powered Precision Cloud Seeding
Partnership Combines Radar-Driven Robotic Cloud Seeding with Ultra-Precise AI Meteorology to Fight Water Shortages Worldwide
EL SEGUNDO, CA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA – July 14, 2025 – Rainmaker Technology Corporation, the pioneering cloud seeding company, and Atmo, Inc., the leader in AI-based ultra-precise meteorology, today announced a strategic alliance to restore water supplies worldwide. The alliance creates the world's most advanced weather modification platform by uniting two of the most innovative companies in atmospheric science. By combining Rainmaker's radar-validated cloud seeding platform with Atmo's ultra-fast, highly-accurate AI weather simulations, the partnership will deliver measurable precipitation enhancement with unprecedented precision and cost-effectiveness.
"This alliance represents the future of weather technology," said Alexander Levy, CEO of Atmo. "Atmo's AI will identify optimal conditions for cloud seeding with unprecedented precision, while Rainmaker's drones can act on those insights immediately. Together, we'll ensure no opportunity is missed to restore water supplies worldwide."
"We're deploying an end-to-end solution from forecast to rainfall," said Augustus Doricko, CEO of Rainmaker. "For the first time, we can combine AI meteorology with radar-validated cloud seeding operations to deliver measurable precipitation enhancement with extreme accuracy and cost-effectiveness.
From Forecast to Rainfall: How the Integrated System Operates
Under the strategic alliance, Rainmaker will integrate Atmo's AI weather forecasting and simulation capabilities into its operations, enabling:
- Radically Improved Targeting: Atmo's ensemble deep learning models, which predict weather up to 40,000 times faster and up to 100x more precisely than conventional weather models, will enable Rainmaker to identify optimal seeding conditions with unprecedented accuracy
- Multi-Simulation Optimization: Advanced scenario modeling will optimize precipitation outcomes by simulating thousands of potential seeding strategies in real-time
- Real-Time Effect Measurement: Atmo's continuous weather monitoring combined with Rainmaker's proprietary radar validation system will provide real-time measurement of seeding effectiveness
- Customer Weather Intervention Options: Atmo will offer its customers a comprehensive menu of weather modification interventions, provided and conducted by Rainmaker, to mitigate drought and severe weather impacts
Breakthrough Technologies Driving the Alliance
Rainmaker's Innovation: The company has developed the only sub-55-pound drone capable of flying in severe icing conditions, enabling effective seeding in supercooled liquid conditions at orders of magnitude lower cost than traditional aircraft operations. Rainmaker's internally designed and manufactured radar system provides unprecedented measurement and attribution of precipitation from cloud seeding operations, enabling real-time physical measurement of seeding effects with exceptional precision.
Atmo's AI Advantage: Named one of TIME's Best Inventions, Atmo's AI meteorology system learns from over 60 years of climate data and is continuously updated with data from numerous satellites, ground stations, and radars. The AI models are up to 100 times more detailed and 40,000 times faster than traditional supercomputer-based forecasting, enabling precision weather simulation at unprecedented resolution and speed. Atmo AI meteorology systems are already used daily by governments, militaries, and enterprises worldwide.
Immediate Benefits at Scale for Governments & Enterprises Worldwide
Both Atmo and Rainmaker specialize in delivering transformative results at regional and national levels, and the alliance will deliver enhanced capabilities to both companies' extensive customer bases. The teams have identified significant synergies in their customer bases, with opportunities to cross-sell combined capabilities to governments and institutions worldwide. When Atmo identifies a client needing precipitation enhancement, Rainmaker can deliver. When Rainmaker encounters a customer requiring advanced weather simulation and forecasting, Atmo provides the solution. "We realized that solving weather challenges requires partnering at scale, " noted Levy. "By combining Atmo and Rainmaker's networks and expertise, we can now offer governments a complete weather prediction and modification system that no one else can match. ""We're both trailblazers in atmospheric science," added Doricko. "This partnership allows us to share opportunities globally and ensure that no institution has to choose between knowing what weather is coming and being able to influence it. They can have both."
Rainmaker's current customers include the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Oregon Department of Agriculture, and cities throughout Texas and California. Atmo's current customers include the Republic of the Philippines, Tuvalu, the United Nations, US Air Force, and US Navy.
Addressing the Critical Global Challenge of Water
The partnership addresses urgent global needs as extreme weather events and drought conditions intensify worldwide. Drought has been the most expensive cause of loss nationally at $56.6 billion, making up 35 percent of all crop insurance payouts in recent years. Insurance payments to farmers due to drought rose more than 400% between 1995 and 2020 to $1.65 billion annually, while in 2022, the program's most expensive year on record, crop insurance subsidized 62% of policyholder premiums at a cost of $12 billion. Africa alone has experienced $70 billion in drought-related economic losses in the past 50 years. The Rainmaker-Atmo alliance delivers advanced weather intervention capabilities to address these mounting costs through:
- Enhancing water security through measurable precipitation increases
- Mitigating drought impacts on agriculture and water supplies
- Reducing severe weather risks to critical infrastructure
- Providing cost-effective weather modification at scale
Market Impact and Future Expansion
The alliance positions both companies at the forefront of the emerging weather modification market. Rainmaker's recent $25M funding round and cost-effective operations (approximately $50 per flight hour including materials) combined with Atmo's global track record operating AI meteorology systems and recognition as a TIME Best Invention create a powerful platform for rapid market expansion.
The partnership will initially focus on North American and Pacific operations, with plans to expand globally as regulatory frameworks develop for precision weather modification services.
