Rainmaker

About Rainmaker

Rainmaker, an El Segundo company, adds precipitation to a watershed with a stack it builds in the US: a forecasting platform that picks the seeding windows, weather-hardened drones that release the seeding agent into supercooled cloud, and X-band radar plus satellite data that measure what fell. Its buyers are mostly public money, so its business development team works like a capture shop: state directors for California and Utah carry a revenue target tied to state appropriations, grant programs, agency contracts and pilots, and work legislative sessions, budget cycles and procurement rules through to award. A Washington group covers the federal side one agency at a time, with directors for USDA and the farm community, for Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation, for science funders such as DOE, NOAA and NSF, and for the State Department on programs with partner nations, each also owning the Congressional committees and appropriations subcommittees behind that agency. The private-sector seller is an industrial partnerships director who pitches seeding to mining, oil and gas, hydropower and other heavy water users in the West and structures the deal as a service contract, an outcome-based price tied to precipitation or basin yield, or a consortium of operators sharing one watershed. The seats are director-level and on site, in El Segundo, Salt Lake City or Washington, DC, and the industrial role spends much of its time at operator sites and conferences.