{"id":56246,"date":"2021-12-07T23:11:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T15:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/tomorrow-io-to-go-public-via-spac-to-fund-satellite-constellation\/"},"modified":"2021-12-07T23:11:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T15:11:52","slug":"tomorrow-io-to-go-public-via-spac-to-fund-satellite-constellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/tomorrow-io-to-go-public-via-spac-to-fund-satellite-constellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow.io to Go Public Via SPAC to Fund Satellite Constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Weather forecasting company<b> Tomorrow.io<\/b>&nbsp;is going public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger that will fund its plans for a satellite constellation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow.io announced Tuesday that it will combine with SPAC Pine Technology Acquisition Corp. to become one public company valued at $1.2 billion. The transaction is expected to provide up to $420 million of gross proceeds, including a $75 million PIPE. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow.io was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It offers a weather intelligence software aimed at helping companies deal with the business impact of weather.The company has about 120 enterprise customers including <strong>Ford<\/strong>, <strong>Uber<\/strong>, <strong>Delta<\/strong>, and the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company is developing radar-equipped satellites, with initial launches planned for late 2022. The satellites are expected to provide a global precipitation dataset updated hourly along, which the company says is the first of its kind. It plans for a 32-satellite constellation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shimon Elkabetz, co-founder and CEO of Tomorrow.io saos going public will accelerate product development and the satellite constellation plans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTomorrow.io was founded with the mission to improve global access to weather intelligence for all,\u201d Elkabetz said. \u201cEvery individual, business, and government is embracing climate adaptation and mitigation.&nbsp; This is exactly the solution that Tomorrow.io provides \u2014 a unique software offering that translates the weather forecast into insights for any industry.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to its investor presentation, the company expects $11 million in revenue this year. It is projecting rapid growth of more than 100% for the next few years to reach \u200b\u200b$389 million in 2025, and $747 million in 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather forecasting company Tomorrow.io&nbsp;is going public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger that will fund its plans for a satellite constellation.&nbsp; Tomorrow.io announced Tuesday that it will combine with SPAC Pine Technology Acquisition Corp. to become one public company valued at $1.2 billion. The transaction is expected to provide up to $420 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}