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The Climate Corporation is a company.
The Climate Corporation provides Climate FieldView, a digital agriculture platform designed to empower farmers with data-driven insights for optimizing crop production. This comprehensive solution collects, connects, and analyzes crucial crop, weather, soil, and field data, enabling growers to efficiently scout fields, generate precise planting and fertility prescriptions, and monitor yield performance in real-time. The platform integrates agronomic science, data science, and engineering to deliver actionable intelligence directly to the farm.
The company was founded in 2006 as WeatherBill by former Google employees David Friedberg and Siraj Khaliq. Initially, their venture focused on offering weather insurance products across various industries. However, recognizing a significant opportunity within agriculture, the founders pivoted the company in 2010 to specialize in leveraging advanced data analytics to address the complex challenges faced by farmers, leading to its rebrand as The Climate Corporation in 2011.
Climate FieldView serves farmers globally, assisting them in making informed decisions throughout the growing season. The company's overarching vision is to help the world's farmers sustainably increase productivity by providing them with sophisticated digital tools that consolidate information, uncover valuable field insights, and optimize inputs for maximum yield potential and efficiency.
The Climate Corporation has raised $109.0M across 4 funding rounds.
Key people at The Climate Corporation.
The Climate Corporation has raised $109.0M in total across 4 funding rounds.
The Climate Corporation is a digital agriculture company that develops the Climate FieldView™ platform, a SaaS solution combining AI, weather data, agronomic modeling, and field sensors to help farmers optimize yields, reduce inputs like water and pesticides, and adapt to climate change.[1][2][3] It serves farmers worldwide across 23 countries and over 220 million acres, addressing the challenge of sustainable productivity in the $3 trillion agriculture industry by enabling data-driven decisions on planting, inputs, and harvesting.[2][3][7] Acquired by Monsanto (now part of Bayer) for $1.1 billion in 2013, it has grown into a leader in agritech, blending software with hardware like the Preceon™ Smart Corn System and partnering for open ecosystems.[1][6][7]
Founded in 2006 in San Francisco by Siraj Khaliq and David Friedberg, The Climate Corporation emerged from the vision to use data analytics for agriculture amid rising climate risks and the need for precise farming.[1][5] Khaliq, now an Atomico partner, and Friedberg leveraged early AI and weather modeling to create tools for risk assessment and productivity, starting with insurance-like products that evolved into comprehensive platforms.[1] Pivotal traction came from rapid scaling; by 2013, its tech covered vast U.S. farmland, leading to Monsanto's $1.1 billion acquisition—one of the first AI unicorns—accelerating global expansion under Bayer Crop Science.[1][2][5]
The Climate Corporation rides the agritech wave, fueled by climate volatility, population growth demanding efficient food production, and big data's rise in precision farming.[2][3][6] Its timing aligns with post-2013 AI/data analytics boom, transforming the $3 trillion ag industry from genetics/equipment toward software-driven optimization amid water scarcity and sustainability mandates.[1][3][6] As Bayer's digital arm, it influences ecosystems by open-sourcing data flows, partnering widely, and scaling to 1,000+ employees across U.S. hubs (Chicago, San Francisco, etc.), setting standards for AI in row-crop farming and inspiring controllable-yield innovations.[2][3][7]
With FieldView's dominance and Bayer backing, The Climate Corporation is poised to expand AI predictive analytics, geospatial ML, and hardware-software hybrids like Preceon amid rising global food demands.[6][7] Trends like drone integration, carbon tracking, and LATAM/APAC growth via incubators will shape it, potentially evolving influence through more open platforms and sustainability metrics.[7] This positions it to sustain its unicorn legacy, helping farmers feed the world more resiliently—just as its 2006 mission envisioned data as agriculture's next frontier.[1]
The Climate Corporation has raised $109.0M across 4 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $50.0M The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science) - Series C in June 2012.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2012 | $50M Series C | Founders Fund | Crosscut Ventures, Dimension Capital, Index Ventures, Neotribe Ventures, OrbiMed, Polaris Partners, Section 32, Atomico, Glynn Capital, GV, Khosla Ventures, NEA, Western Technology Investment | Announced |
| Feb 1, 2011 | $42M Series B | — | Dimension Capital, Felicis Ventures, Greycroft, Index Ventures, IVP, Neotribe Ventures, OrbiMed, Pelion Venture Partners, Polaris Partners, Raine Ventures, Section 32, Shasta Ventures, The HIT Forge, Uncork Capital, Steve Krausz, Sean Flynn, TOM Mcinerney | Announced |
| Sep 1, 2007 | $13M Series A | — | Index Ventures, Neotribe Ventures | Announced |
| Dec 1, 2006 | $4M Seed | — | B Capital Group, Merus Capital | Announced |
The Climate Corporation has raised $109.0M in total across 4 funding rounds.
The Climate Corporation's investors include Founders Fund, Crosscut Ventures, Dimension Capital, Index Ventures, Neotribe Ventures, OrbiMed, Polaris Partners, Section 32, Atomico, Glynn Capital, Google Ventures, Khosla Ventures.
Key people at The Climate Corporation.
