TruWeather Solutions

What TruWeather Solutions does

TruWeather Solutions is a micro-weather analytics and technology company that delivers hyper-local weather intelligence for the advanced air mobility (AAM) and drone industry. Founded in 2015 by Don Berchoff, a former Science and Technology Director at the National Weather Service and retired USAF Colonel, the company operates from its headquarters in Reston, Virginia, with a Technology and Operations Center in Albany, New York, and employs a team of approximately 30 scientists, software engineers, technologists, and operators. The company serves advanced air mobility operators, drone service providers, public safety agencies (including Drone as First Responder programs), and urban air mobility infrastructure providers who require precise low-altitude weather data to enable safe Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations.

The company's core offering is the V360 SaaS platform, a sensor-driven data and analytics product that delivers real-time observed weather data, analytics, forecasts, alerts, and enhanced hazard detection through API and web interfaces. The platform is designed to address a documented gap in weather data below 1,000 feet where traditional aviation weather systems, built for manned aircraft at airports and reliant on METARs often 5-20 miles from flight locations, leave significant reporting gaps for drone operations. TruWeather augments its SaaS offering with hardware-based Weather Infrastructure solutions (ground-based sensors and micro-weather stations) and Professional Weather Services (forecasting expertise, data analysis, and regulatory support). The company reports a 40% increase in flight time when weather uncertainty is a factor for customers using V360, and actively participates in FAA data collection efforts, the NTAP BVLOS waiver pathway, and ASTM F3673-23 standard specification development.

TruWeather generates revenue through three streams: subscription-based access to the V360 SaaS platform (quote-based, annual billing), hardware sales of weather sensors and micro-weather stations, and professional services for forecasting and regulatory support. The go-to-market is enterprise-focused, relying on direct field sales targeting AAM operators, drone service providers, and public safety agencies, supplemented by platform integrations (notably VOTIX), industry events (AUVSI XPONENTIAL), and participation in consortiums such as Boeing's VARIANT project for autonomous aircraft integration. The company is privately held, incorporated in Delaware, and has raised approximately $7 million cumulatively across disclosed rounds, including a 2023 SEC Form D filing.

Name

TruWeather Solutions

Legal name

TruWeather Solutions, Inc.

Website

https://truweathersolutions.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

TruWeather Solutions provides hyper-local micro-weather intelligence for advanced air mobility operators, drone service providers, and public safety agencies through its V360 SaaS platform, ground-based sensor infrastructure, and professional forecasting services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Aviation Weather Intelligence Software

akta.pro primary industry

Air Cargo Visibility (AWB Milestones & Track-and-Trace) (TLAEADAG)

Keywords

• Aviation weather analytics
• Drone weather intelligence
• Micro weather forecasting
• Air mobility weather data
• Weather SaaS platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Syracuse

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Weather SaaS Platform (V360): Subscription-based access to the V360 platform providing real-time weather intelligence, analytics, forecasts, and alerts through API and web interfaces for drone operations
2. Weather Infrastructure Solutions: Sale and deployment of ground-based weather sensors and micro-weather stations as part of comprehensive monitoring ecosystem for advanced air mobility operations
3. Professional Weather Services: Forecasting expertise, data analysis, and regulatory support services ensuring customers can operationalize weather data effectively

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

TruWeather Solutions operates the V360° platform, a sensor-driven weather Software-as-a-Service that delivers hyper-local observed weather data, analytics, forecasts, alerts, and hazard detection through API and web interfaces for advanced air mobility (drone and air taxi) operators. The platform is paired with deployed ground-based micro-weather sensors and supported by professional forecasting, data analysis, and regulatory services to operationalize weather intelligence for BVLOS and Part 107-compliant flights.

Product overview

TruWeather Solutions offers an integrated weather intelligence platform for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). The core offering is the V360° SaaS platform—a comprehensive sensor-driven data and analytics platform that delivers real-time observed data, analytics, forecasts, alerts, and enhanced hazard detection. This platform is complemented by Professional Weather Services (including forecasting expertise, data analysis, and regulatory support) and Weather Infrastructure solutions (ground-based sensors and micro-weather stations). The V360 platform increases flight time by 40 percent when weather uncertainty is a factor, enabling safer, more efficient, and cost-effective AAM operations for cargo, passenger, and autonomous aerial missions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• V360: Comprehensive sensor-driven, data and analytics platform delivering real-time observed data, analytics, forecasts, alerts, and enhanced hazard detection through API and web interfaces for advanced air mobility.
• TruFliteUAS
• V360 Weather

Products and services

• V360° Weather SaaS Platform The first digital weather workbook built for Advanced Air Mobility. Delivers a vertical 360° view of the atmosphere, providing real-time, hyper-local weather data, analytics, forecasts, alerts, and enhanced hazard detection through API and web interfaces for drone pilots and air taxi operations.
• TruFliteUAS™ Weather Decision System Weather risk management and decision support system that enables drone pilots and operators to fly safely using precision weather data and real-time situational awareness, with the goal of mitigating weather-related risks and supporting community-benefit use cases.
• Professional Weather Services Expert services including forecasting, data analysis, and regulatory support that ensure customers receive accurate weather data and understand how to operationalize it for advanced air mobility missions.
• Weather Infrastructure Solutions Ground-based weather sensors and micro-weather stations deployed as part of a comprehensive monitoring ecosystem to deliver real-time, hyperlocal weather insights at the locations where drone and air taxi operations occur.

Quantifiable outcome

• 40% increase in flight time when weather uncertainty is a factor
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability6 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• VOTIXcoreTechnology or Integration · 24 January 2025Strategic partnership combining TruWeather's real-time hyper-local weather intelligence with VOTIX's cutting-edge drone orchestration and automation platform. The collaboration provides an integrated solution enhancing scalability, efficiency, and safety across UAS, AAM, and DFR ecosystems. VOTIX is the first platform capable of delivering drone automation, orchestration, and remote operation end-to-end while being hardware agnostic.
• Boeing Aerospace Spain (BAS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipation in VARIANT project, a strategic research initiative to enable safe integration of electric and autonomous aircraft into current airspace. TruWeather provides micro-weather sensing capabilities as part of the sensor infrastructure deployed at Madrid Cuatro Vientos aerodrome testbed, alongside Fortem, Involi, DTN, and Dimetor.
• AI2ES (AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTruWeather is an Industry Advisory Board Member to the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography, collaborating on advancing trustworthy AI applications for weather prediction.
• SkyGridminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSkyGrid is a major contributor to Boeing's VARIANT project alongside TruWeather, ANZEN Engineering, AI Methods, and QCentroid Labs for autonomous aircraft integration.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Broad incumbents

• Spire Global: Spire Global operates a satellite constellation that provides weather, maritime, and aviation intelligence, including radio occultation data feeding aviation forecasts. While its data is space-based rather than ground-sensor-based, it competes in the same aviation weather data market and serves enterprise and government customers through API products.
• DTN: DTN is a long-established provider of weather, agricultural, and operational intelligence to aviation, agriculture, energy, and logistics customers. It is also a partner in Boeing's VARIANT consortium alongside TruWeather. DTN's aviation weather offerings overlap with TruWeather's operator-targeted capabilities, though DTN serves a much broader customer base and is not specialized in low-altitude drone operations.
• AccuWeather: AccuWeather is one of the largest commercial weather providers, offering aviation forecasts, radar, and data APIs. While primarily a general-purpose weather company, its enterprise aviation business overlaps with TruWeather's operator-facing weather intelligence, though AccuWeather lacks specialization in the low-altitude drone and AAM segment.
• Baron Weather: Baron Weather provides aviation weather data, radar, and forecasting tools primarily to commercial airlines, business aviation, and government. It is an established incumbent in aviation meteorology with overlapping capabilities to TruWeather's V360 platform for crewed aviation, though it has limited specialization in the low-altitude drone/UAS segment.

Emerging players

• SkyGrid (a Boeing subsidiary): SkyGrid is a Boeing subsidiary building an airspace management and drone operations platform for autonomous aircraft integration. As a major VARIANT project contributor alongside TruWeather, SkyGrid represents the orchestration layer that could either partner with or compete against specialized weather providers like TruWeather depending on build-versus-partner decisions.
• ANZEN Engineering: ANZEN Engineering provides flight operations and safety software for advanced air mobility, and is a participant in Boeing's VARIANT project alongside TruWeather. Both companies serve the same emerging AAM/UAM customer base with complementary software - weather intelligence (TruWeather) and flight operations/safety tooling (ANZEN) - positioning them as adjacent players in the same stack.
• Iris Automation: Iris Automation provides detect-and-avoid (DAA) technology for uncrewed aircraft and is a named TruWeather partner for uncrewed aircraft weather surveillance. While Iris focuses on collision avoidance rather than weather, both companies sell mission-critical safety software into the same UAS operator buyer, making them adjacent players in the drone safety stack.

Direct peers

• Tomorrow.io: Tomorrow.io (formerly ClimaCell) is a weather intelligence SaaS platform that combines proprietary sensing, forecasting APIs, and industry-specific applications including aviation. Like TruWeather, it pursues an enterprise SaaS model with API delivery, hyperlocal data emphasis, and vertical-specific packaging - making it the most directly comparable weather SaaS competitor, albeit at significantly larger scale.
• Earth Networks: Earth Networks operates a global weather observation network (including Sferic Maps and lightning detection) and delivers hyperlocal weather data and APIs to enterprise customers. Its model of combining proprietary sensor infrastructure with weather APIs parallels TruWeather's V360 approach, with comparable go-to-market across aviation-adjacent and outdoor-operations verticals.

Others

• AvMet (UK Met Office aviation services): AvMet is the commercial aviation services arm of the UK Met Office, providing certified aviation weather data and forecasting services to airlines, airports, and regulators globally. It represents the national meteorological agency model of aviation weather provision - a different business structure but serving overlapping aviation weather needs that TruWeather targets for drones.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/GetTruWeather

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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