Ran Korber

BreezoMeter provides AI-powered environmental data APIs covering air quality, pollen, weather, and wildfire risk, aggregating data from government monitoring stations, satellite imagery, and IoT sensors and applying machine learning models to produce street-level resolution environmental intelligence that application developers and enterprises integrate into health, insurance, and mobility products. The Haifa company delivers real-time and forecast environmental data at hyperlocal granularity that government monitoring networks cannot match.\n\nThe company raised approximately $21 million in venture funding and was acquired by Google in 2022, integrating its environmental data capabilities into Google Maps, Google Search, and Google Nest products. Prior to acquisition, BreezoMeter had built API customers including insurance companies for climate risk underwriting, asthma and respiratory health applications for personalised air quality alerts, and HVAC companies for air filtration product recommendations tied to local pollution levels.\n\nBreezoMeter competed in the environmental data and climate intelligence market alongside AirVisual (IQAir), PurpleAir, and government air quality data portals. The acquisition by Google reflected the strategic value of hyperlocal environmental data as an enrichment layer for mapping, local search, and home automation products where air quality and pollen information enhances the relevance of location-based recommendations. The combination of machine learning interpolation and sensor fusion to generate street-level environmental data from sparse monitoring networks represented a technically defensible approach that aligned with Google investment in location data quality.