Earthmover wants to become the Snowflake of weather and geospatial data | TechCrunch

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  • Earthmover has landed a $7.2 million seed round from Lowercarbon Capital and Preston-Werner Ventures.
  • The company is using the cash to build new tools atop its data storage platform.
  • Earthmover’s customers include insurance startup Kettle, which uses the platform to assess wildfire risk, and RWE, the German multinational energy company.
  • It is built on open source software, including Xarray, Pangeo, and Icechunk, and runs on major cloud providers, including Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure.
Few things generate as much data as simply observing the Earth from above. But Ryan Abernathey and Joe Hamman very quickly realized that all that data still wasnt enough for their startup to thrive. [+2961 chars]

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