With water scarcity accelerating across the globe, massively reshaping agricultural and energy landscapes, reliable precipitation has become a critical infrastructure play with venture-backed companies, government programs, and utilities alike rushing to fund solutions. Surprisingly, the problem is not related to the lack of water in clouds. In fact, there is actually just as much water mass in a cumulus cloud as the mass of 100 African Elephants. The real issue is that the water in the clouds needs to freeze before rain or snow can fall. So what’s the real secret to reliable precipitation? Warm ice.

Led by two seasoned fungal biologists and the former Head of Meteorology at Rainmaker (with extensive cloud seeding operational experience), Supercool Earth is tackling the global water scarcity issue head on with their end to end cloud seeding technology featuring best in class ice nucleating proteins. Existing cloud seeding technologies, such as silver iodide, are only effective on a small fraction of clouds, largely limiting the scale of cloud seeding operations. By increasing the max operating temperature by a mere few degrees Celsius, SuperCool can double the number of seedable clouds. Further, Supercool’s hero product works both as a cloud seeding agent and snowmaking additive, which helps ski resorts make snow at warmer temperatures and expand the number of skiable days. They already have LOIs from two resorts for pilots this season.