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Sorcerer (YC S24) — Building a nervous system for the atmosphere

Sorcerer is deploying a global network of persistent airborne sensors to fuel advanced weather forecasting. Our high-altitude balloons collect 1000x more data than existing systems and are already used daily by meteorologists to track extreme weather across the US and Central America.

Sorcerer is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2024 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Building a nervous system for the atmosphere. The founders listed are Austin Tindle (Founder/CEO), Maxmillion McLaughlin (Founder/CTO), Alessandro Vecchi (Founder/CPO) (Y Combinator directory entry, July 10, 2024).

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Sorcerer

New accelerator entry · 2024-07-10 · the record

Summer 2024
batch
4
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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BatchSummer 2024
Announced2024-07-10
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size4
IndustryIndustrials
Sub-industryIndustrials -> Climate
SectorsArtificial Intelligence, Hard Tech, Hardware, Climate, Aerospace
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://sorcerer.earth

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Sorcerer is deploying a global network of persistent airborne sensors to fuel advanced weather forecasting. Our high-altitude balloons collect 1000x more data than existing systems and are already used daily by meteorologists to track extreme weather across the US and Central America.

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