What Prescient Weather does

Prescient Weather Ltd is a privately held climate services firm headquartered in State College, Pennsylvania, that builds statistical forecasting products for enterprise clients whose financial and operational decisions are weather-sensitive. The company operates two core web-based products: the World Climate Service, which delivers medium-range (weeks-to-months) climate forecasts for industry meteorologists and has been operational for over 15 years, and CropProphet™, which produces U.S. grain yield and production forecasts on a daily updating cadence and has been operational for 11 years. Both products are underpinned by a proprietary statistical forecast system that fuses high-resolution weather inputs with satellite data and field-level surveys, differentiating the offering from weather-only alternatives.

The company serves four primary vertical segments: Agriculture (crop yield forecasting for growers, feed companies, and commodity participants), Energy (demand and consumption forecasting for utilities, including many of the largest energy utilities in the U.S. and Europe), Insurance/Reinsurance (weather and climate risk quantification for underwriting and portfolio management), and Finance (systematic modeling of weather-driven trading strategies for hedge funds and institutional investors). Geographic operations span North America and Europe, with active customer presence in the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Canada.

Prescient Weather generates revenue through annual subscription-based access to its two web-based products, sold through a direct B2B sales motion. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and prospective customers are routed through demonstration and direct sales inquiries. The company is led by CEO John Dutton, has a headcount of 1-10, has never reported external funding rounds, and has no disclosed parent company, acquisitions, or partnerships in the available data. The current footprint reflects a capital-light, niche data-services firm sustained over more than a decade through domain specialization rather than venture-scale scaling.

Name

Prescient Weather

Legal name

Prescient Weather Ltd

Website

https://prescientweather.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Prescient Weather is a privately held climate-services firm that sells subscription-based statistical forecasting products — CropProphet for U.S. grain yield and World Climate Service for medium-range climate prediction — to enterprise clients in agriculture, energy, insurance/reinsurance, and finance.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Weather and Climate Analytics Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services (54136)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Downscaled Climate Projections & Scenario Analytics (CMIP, SSP/RCP, Regionalization) (EUABALAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Climate & GHG/Emissions Modeling & Scenario Analysis (Inventories, Projections, Net-Zero Pathways) (EUAHAKAH), Early Warning, Event Monitoring & Forecasting (Extreme Weather Alerts, Nowcasting) (EUABALAJ), Environmental Data, Monitoring, Remote Sensing & Early Warning (BPADALAN)

Keywords

• Climate forecasting services
• Weather risk management
• Crop yield forecasting
• Energy demand forecasting
• Climate risk analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

State College

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Subscription-based Software Services: Prescient Weather generates revenue through subscription-based access to their web-based climate service products (World Climate Service and CropProphet). These are annual subscription services targeting enterprise clients in agriculture, energy, insurance, and finance sectors.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Prescient Weather develops and operates web-based climate and weather forecasting software products for enterprise decision-making. Its portfolio includes the World Climate Service, which provides extended-range (weeks to months ahead) climate forecasts for industry meteorologists, and CropProphet™, a daily-updated service that delivers operational U.S. grain yield forecasts by combining high-resolution weather inputs, satellite data, and field-level surveys. Both products serve clients in agriculture, energy, insurance/reinsurance, and finance industries.

Product overview

Prescient Weather offers a portfolio of two web-based climate service products. The World Climate Service is a platform for industry meteorologists to improve medium-range (weeks to months) forecasts, serving clients for over 15 years. CropProphet™ is the company's agricultural forecasting solution, delivering highly accurate U.S. grain yield and production predictions by combining high-resolution weather data, satellite imagery, and field-level surveys, updated on a daily cadence and operational for 11 years. Both products serve multiple industries including agriculture, energy, insurance/reinsurance, and finance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• World Climate Service: A web-based tool providing climate forecasting services for industry meteorologists to improve forecasts for weeks to months ahead.
• CropProphet

Products and services

• World Climate Service A web-based climate forecasting tool providing the best available science to enable industry meteorologists to improve their forecasts for weeks to months ahead. Designed for enterprise users in energy, insurance/reinsurance, agriculture, and finance industries, and operational for over 15 years.
• CropProphet™ A web-based service delivering operational U.S. grain yield and production forecasts. Combines high-resolution weather inputs with satellite data and field-level surveys, updated daily, to provide the industry's most accurate U.S. grain yield forecasts for agricultural producers, feed companies, and other stakeholders in agricultural supply chains. Operational for 11 years.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• DTN: DTN provides weather, climate, and agricultural data services to energy, agriculture, and commodity trading customers. Closely comparable to Prescient Weather in vertical focus (agriculture, energy) and subscription-based B2B delivery, though DTN is significantly larger in scale.
• Tomorrow.io: Tomorrow.io is a weather intelligence platform offering forecasting and climate risk APIs for enterprise customers across logistics, energy, and agriculture. Comparable as a B2B weather/climate SaaS provider, though it takes an AI- and sensor-driven approach rather than statistical forecasting.
• aWhere: aWhere delivers agricultural weather and climate data for crop production decisions globally. Comparable as an agricultural-focused weather/climate data provider serving agribusiness, with overlapping methodology around satellite and weather data fusion.
• Jupiter Intelligence: Jupiter Intelligence provides climate risk analytics for insurance, reinsurance, financial services, and infrastructure. Comparable in targeting insurance/reinsurance and finance buyers with climate risk data, though Jupiter focuses on long-term physical risk modeling while Prescient Weather emphasizes operational forecasting.
• Planalytics: Planalytics provides weather analytics and demand-forecasting solutions to consumer goods, retail, and energy companies. Comparable as a niche B2B provider translating weather into business impact, though Prescient Weather focuses more on agriculture/finance while Planalytics focuses on CPG.

Broad incumbents

• Climate Corporation (Bayer): Climate Corporation, owned by Bayer, is a digital agriculture platform providing field-level insights and yield forecasts to farmers. Comparable as a U.S. grain yield forecasting platform, but with substantially greater scale and capital.
• AccuWeather: AccuWeather is an established weather forecasting company serving media, government, and enterprise customers. Comparable in offering forecast products to business clients, though Prescient Weather's enterprise positioning is more specialized than AccuWeather's broad consumer-and-business orientation.
• RMS (Moody's): RMS, a Moody's company, provides catastrophe risk and climate modeling for the insurance industry. Comparable in serving insurance/reinsurance clients with weather-driven risk analytics, though RMS is part of a much larger risk analytics franchise.
• IBM / The Weather Company: IBM's The Weather Company is a large-scale provider of weather data, forecasts, and analytics across media, enterprise, and government. Comparable as a B2B weather forecasting provider, but vastly broader in scope and scale, and increasingly focused on AI-driven forecasting.

Others

• MDA (Maxar Technologies): MDA, part of Maxar, provides Earth observation and satellite-based weather data feeds. Comparable as an enabling data provider — Prescient Weather relies on satellite data similar to MDA's outputs — though MDA is an upstream data and infrastructure vendor rather than a downstream forecasting platform.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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