From:http://www.techcrunch.com
By:Michael Arrington
San Francisco based WeatherBill, the service which lets you bet on the weather (it can also be used for insurance), took down their landing page and launched today.
We wrote about the company two weeks ago while it was in private beta. WeatherBill is combining an ecommerce site with a complicated weather forecasting algorithm to sell weather insurance policies to individuals and businesses.
The company is not disclosing the size of their round of funding. However, it includes venture firms NEA and Index Ventures, as well as a number of well known individuals: del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom (through his Atomico fund) and Howard Morgan (idealab and First Round Capital), as well as others who declined to be named.
WeatherBill is perfect for small and medium sized businesses who’s businesses are affected by the weather. If a golf course wants to be paid $1,000 per rainy day, WeatherBill will create a policy on the fly for them.
The company was founded by former Googler David Friedberg.
On a side note, WeatherBill is doing some really nice things with Flash (see the tools section). Even if weather and insurance isn’t your cup of tea, you should check it out. Particularly if you are creating Flash applications yourself (I said the same thing about Jobby with their use of Ajax back in March).
总部位于旧金山的WeatherBill公司今天正式上线，你可以利用他们的服务对未来天气下注（它也能用做保险）。
我们在两周之前报道了这家网络公司，当时它还只提供内测的beta版。WeatherBill公司正在把一个电子商务网站和一中复杂的天下预报分析系统整合起来，然后向公司和个人出售天气保险单。
该公司并没有透露他们得到了多少风险投资，但是它的投资商包括了NEA和INDEX，以几一批著名的独立投资人，其中包括del.icio.us的创始人Joshua Schachter、Skype的创始人Niklas Zennstrom（通过他的原子基金），和Howard Morgan，以及其他一些不愿意透露姓名的投资人。
WeatherBill公司对于那些业务受天气影响的中小型公司来说是上佳之选，如果某高尔夫课程想要为每个雨天获得1，000美金的赔偿，那么WeatherBill公司会为此而专门设计一份保单给他们。
WeatherBill公司的创建者为前GOOGLE创始人David Friedberg。
除了对天气进行保险，WeatherBill公司还用FLASH做了些非常有意思的小玩艺（参看网站的工具栏）。即便你对天气和保险全无兴趣，你也应该用它查一下天气对你收入的影响。特别的是，你还可以为自己定制一个FLASH的小程序。
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