PredictWind
👤 Jon Bilger (Ran Alinghi's weather program for 10 years, winning the 2003 and 2007 America's Cup. Then licensed that exact tech.)🌐 site
Elite-team weather tech, priced for weekend sailors. The moat is a license and a credential, not code.
Will it work? · our read
Licensed the moat. The revenue is a third-party estimate. The durable asset isn't the data - free apps copy that - but the trust of pro racing teams who bet their races on Bilger's forecast.
01How the money moves
Win the America's Cup running Alinghi's weather team
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License that proprietary modeling tech exclusively
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Sell $29-499/yr subscriptions to 1.7M+ marine users
02The numbers
1M+Statedusers (Dec 2023)
2023-12
Users are not all paying - a generous free tier sits under the paid offshore tiers. ZoomInfo profile
About $12M/yr - third-party estimate; the company is private and has never disclosed figures.
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You have the verdict. Members get the work behind it.
- The CENTS scorecard — where it's strong, where it's soft
- The founder's key move, and the counter-move
- How it could die — the evidence, and how sure we are
- The case against our own call
- A 🚀 launchpad prompt — the case, as a plan for your business
We rate our own confidence — and argue against ourselves. Nobody else in this category does.
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PredictWind - About: Bilger, Alinghi, exclusive license (first-party)The Log - PredictWind, the weather app for boaters (pricing tiers)The Triton - PredictWind changes how superyachts predict weatherBoating NZ - PredictWind named official partner of The Ocean RaceZoomInfo - PredictWind revenue estimate (about $12.3M, third-party)
Revenue is a THIRD-PARTY ESTIMATE (ZoomInfo, about $12.3M/yr), not first-party - PredictWind is a private New Zealand company and has never disclosed financials, so tagged Estimate and not independently confirmed. The "300k+ users" figure is reported/third-party and includes a generous free tier, so paying subscribers are fewer. Founder credentials (Alinghi weather team manager, America's Cup 2003/2007 wins, 1992 Olympian, mechanical-engineering degree, TAG Heuer 1995 navigator) and the "exclusive license to Alinghi's weather-modeling tech" claim are first-party from PredictWind's About page and corroborated by sailing press. Founding year 2009 is widely reported but not stated on the About page. Note: they also sell ancillary hardware (DataHub datalogger, satellite comms), but the core money-making asset is the forecasting and routing subscription (in scope). No documented internal drama - this is an execution-and-credibility story, not a plot twist. We never score you.