Bring Me Sunshine

Name

Bring Me Sunshine

Website

https://bringmesunshine.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bring Me Sunshine is a UK & Ireland consumer web app that aggregates multiple national weather models to help individual users find sunny-day outdoor outing locations, delivered as a self-serve tool with no disclosed monetization or pricing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Consumer weather forecasting service: Free consumer-facing service providing weather forecasts for outdoor activity planning. Revenue model not explicitly disclosed in available source material.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Bring Me Sunshine is a consumer-facing web application that helps users in the UK and Ireland identify upcoming sunny days for outdoor outings. Users enter an approximate location, choose a search radius (up to 60 miles), and pick a date (today, tomorrow, or this weekend) to receive forecasts cross-checked against multiple national weather models.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bring Me Sunshine Weather App

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Direct peers

• Yr (Norwegian Meteorological Institute): Joint Norwegian-Meteorological-Institute weather service popular across Northern Europe for outdoor activity planning. Comparable because it is a free, multi-model consumer weather product oriented around outdoor use cases in regions with similar weather variability to the UK & Ireland.
• Windy.com: Visual weather forecasting platform aggregating multiple national models into a rich, interactive interface widely used by outdoor enthusiasts in Europe. Comparable because it offers multi-model aggregation at the consumer level for outdoor activity planning, similar to Bring Me Sunshine's core proposition.

Broad incumbents

• AccuWeather: Global consumer and commercial weather forecasting platform covering UK & Ireland with detailed hourly and daily forecasts. Comparable as a multi-model consumer weather product targeting the same outdoor-activity planning decision.
• BBC Weather: BBC's consumer weather service is the default UK weather reference for most consumers and is built on Met Office data. Comparable because it serves the same UK-based outdoor-planning use case free of charge and benefits from the BBC's massive established audience.
• The Weather Channel / Weather.com: One of the largest consumer weather brands globally, providing forecasts, maps, and lifestyle-oriented weather content. Comparable as a general-purpose consumer weather interface that competes for the same outdoor-planning moments in the UK & Ireland.
• Apple Weather: Default iOS weather experience, embedded in every iPhone and covering the UK & Ireland with multi-source forecasts. Comparable because it satisfies the same outdoor-planning weather check at zero marginal effort to the user, posing a significant substitution risk.
• Weather Underground: Consumer weather service aggregating forecasts from multiple data sources with a strong enthusiast and outdoor-user base. Comparable as a multi-model, consumer-facing weather product serving outdoor planning decisions.
• Met Éireann: Ireland's official national meteorological service, providing authoritative forecasts for the Irish half of Bring Me Sunshine's stated market. Directly comparable as a free, trusted weather source for outdoor planning in the same geography.
• Met Office: The UK's official national weather service and the authoritative source for forecasts in the geographies Bring Me Sunshine targets. Comparable because it provides the underlying weather data and offers a publicly available consumer-facing forecast interface that competes directly for the same UK outdoor-planning use case.

Others

• Met Office Weather Widgets / DataPoint: The Met Office's public-facing data API and embeddable forecast products. Comparable as an enabling infrastructure layer that demonstrates how easily the underlying weather data can be accessed and rerendered by third parties — highlighting the absence of a data moat for Bring Me Sunshine.

Market position

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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