Perry Weather Raises $110M for Weather Safety Automation

Perry Weather raised a $110M Series C growth investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners, with returning investor Arthur Ventures participating. The Dallas weather-safety company plans to use the capital to expand AI capabilities, grow its product and service organization, and add more than 50 roles through 2027.

The round matters because Perry Weather sits between a weather forecast and the operating decision that follows. Schools, contractors, manufacturers, cities, golf courses, and sports organizations may already have written policies for lightning, heat, wind, or air quality. The harder job is measuring conditions at the site, warning everybody at once, documenting the response, and deciding when activity can safely resume.

What Perry Weather Announced

The September 9, 2026 financing is Perry Weather's largest disclosed round. Silversmith led the investment, while Arthur Ventures returned after leading the company's $6.25M Series A in 2022 and $15M Series B in 2024. Adding the three announced rounds puts Perry Weather's disclosed financing at a minimum of $131.25M, although the company has not disclosed a valuation or the ownership terms of the new investment.

Silversmith Managing Partner Sri Rao will join Perry Weather's board. Arthur Ventures General Partner Pat Meenan said the firm has watched the company develop since the Series A, while Silversmith described Perry Weather as a founder-led business with a large market opportunity. Those investor statements are naturally interested, but the repeat financing shows a long-running relationship rather than a first meeting arranged around one large check.

Colin Perry founded the company in 2013 and remains CEO. Perry Weather is headquartered at 3102 Oak Lawn Ave. in Dallas, where the new hiring plan covers software and hardware engineering, product, support, and services. The company says it had about 115 employees when the round was announced, making the planned 50-plus additions a meaningful expansion of the operating base.

The Decision Layer Between Data and Action

Perry Weather combines site-installed weather hardware with cloud software. Its stations monitor local conditions such as lightning, wet bulb globe temperature, heat index, wind, precipitation, and air quality. Customers define their own policy thresholds, and the platform can distribute instructions through mobile notifications, SMS, outdoor sirens, PA systems, and visual strobes. Automatic all-clears and historical reports help teams coordinate the return to normal operations and retain a record of the event.

That combination is the company's practical distinction. A general forecast can show that a storm or heat event is moving through a region, but a superintendent, coach, facilities director, or safety manager still needs a decision at a specific field, job site, campus, plant, or course. Moving too late increases risk. Moving too early can stop work, cancel practice, delay a project, or empty a venue before conditions require it.

Perry Weather is selling consistency around both sides of that decision. The alert matters, but so does the all-clear. A documented resumption can protect operating time, reduce confusion among teams, and give managers a record of the conditions and policy thresholds that shaped the response.

Why Regulation Is Pulling Weather Into Operations

Weather safety is moving closer to formal operating procedure. More state athletic associations require wet bulb globe temperature monitoring and activity changes when heat thresholds are crossed. Several states enforce workplace heat protections, while the Occupational Safety and Health Administration continues work on a proposed federal heat injury and illness prevention standard. The federal rule is not final, but the direction of travel is clear: employers and institutions are being asked to identify, communicate, and control heat hazards more deliberately.

Regulation is only part of the demand. Contractors need to distinguish a necessary weather delay from an avoidable one. Schools need consistent instructions across coaches, athletic trainers, parents, and facilities teams. Manufacturers and energy operators need site-specific conditions attached to shifts, equipment, and safety procedures. In each case, the buyer is paying for a reliable organizational response, not merely a more colorful radar map.

The funding announcement says more than 3,000 organizations use Perry Weather, including schools, cities, manufacturers, professional sports leagues, and 24 of the top 25 contractors on Engineering News-Record's Top 400 list. Perry Weather also says revenue has nearly doubled annually for six years. Those figures are company-reported, and current first-party pages show different customer totals, so the round-specific number is the cleanest snapshot of the business at the time of the transaction.

What the $110M Is Expected to Change

Perry Weather plans to invest in AI across its product suite, using data from thousands of connected on-site stations to enrich regional and national forecast models, sharpen hyperlocal forecasts, anticipate disruption, and improve the reliability of its hardware fleet. The company also plans to expand teams that build, support, and service the system. These are product and hiring commitments, not proof that every planned AI capability is already delivering a measured customer outcome.

The dataset is strategically important because it is tied to the locations customers need to protect. Local readings can make a weather model more relevant to a particular field or job site, while the surrounding software translates those readings into an organization's thresholds and communications. The difficult engineering work is maintaining that chain across hardware, connectivity, forecasting, policy logic, alerts, records, and human decision-making when conditions are changing quickly.

Perry Weather also exposes current and historical station observations through APIs and webhooks, allowing weather and policy events to move into other operating systems. That matters as larger customers try to connect safety, scheduling, claims, facilities, and workforce workflows instead of leaving the weather decision inside a standalone application.

What This Round Signals

Climate technology is often framed around measuring large physical systems. Perry Weather is working at a smaller and more immediate scale: the few acres where a crew, team, machine, or crowd has to respond now. Its commercial opportunity grows when organizations need the same decision applied across many locations without losing local precision.

The $110M Series C gives Perry Weather the balance sheet to build that operating layer faster. Silversmith and Arthur Ventures are financing more than forecast intelligence; they are financing the handoff from data to policy, notification, documentation, and resumption. As weather rules tighten and disruption becomes harder to treat as an exception, the company now has to show that its expanding system can keep those decisions local, consistent, and usable across every site it adds.