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Skymet Weather Services is a private Indian company that provides weather forecast and solutions to Indians. Skymet was the first private sector entity to provide weather forecasts and weather graphics to the Indian media in 2003.〔(Meet Jatin Singh, the ‘weather man’ behind Skymet | Firstpost )〕 Skymet was founded by Jatin Singh〔(The weather man behind Skymet )〕 in 2003 and is headquartered in Noida, India.〔(The weather man behind Skymet | Entrepreneurindia.in )〕 Today Skymet provides weather service and graphics to most of Indian media companies in India, such as Zee News, Aaj Tak, Sahara Samay, Mint, Times Now, ABP and The Hindu. Its other clients include Reliance Infrastructure Ltd, Gazprom, Thomson Reuters and North Delhi Power Ltd. Skymet also provides weather service information to most of the major insurance companies in India, power sector and agriculture sector.〔(Skymet Weather Services: Jatin Singh provides services to climate-dependent sectors like agriculture, energy - Economic Times )〕 Skymet provides wind and solar forecast for different renewable energy companies by running its own meso and micro scale NWP. Skymet along with few NGOs are closely working to improve the sustenance of farmer in different remote blocks of many states in India. Skymet also caters to different companies for marine weather forecast. Skymet had also recently launched a weather website that allows a common user to get accurate weather information for free. It also launched an android app that gives weather information. Despite availability of many such weather app in Google Play store, Skymet app was seen as the first made in India app that provides weather information in multiple regional languages.〔(Skymet - Made In India Weather Application | Appdunia )〕 When cyclone Phailin hit the Eastern coastal regions of India, Skymet became a referring point for forecast along with international websites like Accuweather.〔(Cyclone hits homecoming )〕 Skymet has developed many software tools for weather and climate decision support system. == Funding == Weather forecasting services provider (Skymet Weather Services ) has recently raised $4.5 million in Series B funding from multiple investors led by Asia Pacific, the investment arm of UK-based media firm Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT) and Godrej group-backed existing investor Omnivore Partners.〔(In a dodgy monsoon season, it’s raining funds on Indian weather forecaster Skymet )〕 Skymet has received 1 round of funding so far from Omnivore Partners through a Rs.250 Cr ($50 Mn) fund that was launched with Godrej Agrovet, the diversified agribusiness arm of the Godrej group being the anchor investor. Omnivore reportedly picked up 33 percent stake in Skymet and Mark Kahn, partner of Omnivore Partners joined the board of Skymet Services.〔(DealCurry.com : Omnivore Capital Buys 33% In Weather Forecaster Skymet )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skymet Weather Services」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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