Most people check the weather. Perry Weather builds the system that decides whether 300 kids leave the soccer field.
In 2013, Colin Perry noticed something odd about the weather systems guarding stadiums, school fields and golf courses: many were older than the smartphones in everyone's pockets. A meteorologist trained in Texas A&M's Atmospheric Sciences department, he had spent years in weather consulting and kept running into the same gap - the distance between a forecast and a decision. A radar loop tells you a storm is coming. It does not tell a coach when to clear the field, or when it is safe to come back.
Perry Weather was built to close that gap. The company started as a consulting service and productized the expertise into a platform that blends hardware and software. On-site weather stations measure conditions where they actually matter - on the field, at the job site, across the course. Software translates those readings into automated instructions tied to each organization's own safety policy. When lightning is detected, the system doesn't just warn; it starts an all-clear countdown that tells staff exactly when activity can resume.
The result is weather safety that behaves less like a data feed and more like a policy that runs itself. Schools, cities, parks departments, golf clubs and industrial firms use it to remove hesitation - and liability - from high-stakes calls made under pressure. Behind the automation sit human meteorologists, on call around the clock, to back the software with judgment when it matters most.
Today more than 5,000 organizations rely on the platform, which has delivered over 200 million real-time alerts covering lightning, heat stress and air quality. In 2023 the PGA of America named Perry Weather its official weather platform. In 2024 the company raised a $15 million Series B. The through-line is simple: the unglamorous problems are often the ones worth solving.
