Make Sunsets is a company that deploys reflective clouds in the stratosphere to reflect some of the Sun's rays, aiming to combat climate change.

Make Sunsets

Make Sunsets is deploying biodegradable reflective clouds in the stratosphere to cool Earth and give humanity a fighting chance to move away from fossil fuels and scale up carbon removal solutions.

Make Sunsets is backed by Boost VC (Seed investors of Coinbase), Pioneer Fund (Y Combinator alumni backing other YC founders), Draper Associates, and angel investors.

Boost VC

Pioneer Fund

Edge City time — we're here in Healdsburg. 

"A temporary pop-up village for founders, scientists, urban planners, researchers, engineers, philosophers, storytellers, and beyond who believe the future can be better and are actively working to make it happen."

Shared meals, shared walks and bike rides, shared work sprints and hackathons, and shared session creation.

It's a monthlong un-conference focused on collaboration across diverse disciplines in order to generate new insights on site — new hardware prototypes, new research papers, new music, likely some new companies.

Examples are really the only way to make it make sense 🙃

This weekend Andrew Song of Make Sunsets - the first company to commercialize stratospheric aerosol injection - will teach adults and kids alike how his company is mimicking the cooling effects of stratovolcanos to cool earth. Apparently we'll get to play with balloons, so my kids are IN.

#LivingOnTheEdge #EdgeCity #EdgeEsmeralda #PopUpVillage #DiverseDisciplines

A Gigarave. On an aircraft carrier. With electric flying boats, supersonic jets and a nuclear-powered DeLorean. 🔮 👩🏼‍🎤 🤘🏼 🪩 

Enough said — #FastTakeoff was the most epic kickoff imaginable for this week to celebrate the misfits, hardcore makers, engineers and scientists building and designing a brighter future. 🚀 🛰️ ⚛️ 🧫 ☢️

Thank you Sampriti, Andrew, Tim, Jiarun, Simone & team for pulling this all together in *3 weeks!!!* — things will never be the same after this night. ❤️‍🔥

Wonderful to catch up with and learn from the best and brightest of the SF Bay Area's deep & frontier tech community & beyond... 🔭 Andra Dave Djoann Coert Luke AJ Armaan Ivan ...

Fascinating sessions — on longevity science and NOT DYING with Bryan, Linda, and Celine, on how to build supersonic jets with Blake and Jared, on OG hard tech with Will, Chris, and Mike, and on rebuilding the American maritime industry with Sampriti and Bob 🧬 ⚛️ ✈️ 🛳️ 🏭 🇺🇸

Makers were out in full force: Navier, Boom Supersonic, Astra, Make Sunsets, Avalanche Energy, Neurosity & more, + special appearance from Quentin and endiatx! 🤖 💊

Epic bangers from DJ Lumen. 🌒

LET'S GO #SFDEEPTECHWEEK 🚀 ❤️‍🔥 🧨 🇺🇸

Let's live forever and travel the stars. 💫 🌌

📸 beginning photos: Kevin L.

In our first full calendar year of operation, we achieved the equivalent of neutralizing the warming caused by 1,964 ICE cars for a year. And we didn't need to block roadways doing it.

Here is our last monthly update of 2023 where we share how much money we have in our company bank account, our monthly spend, wins/learnings, and what our goals are for next month. This went out to our investors, customers, haters, and SAI-curious

Revenue: $4,431 ($1,551 MRR)
Burn: $39,914
Cash: $804,762
Runway: ~18 months

This year, we put up enough Cooling Credits to offset over 9,036 ton-years of carbon dioxide's warming. This is directly because of the support from people like you. It's tempting to sink into Climate Doomism, but you have refused to do so. Thank you. We literally couldn't do this without your support.

We finished 2023 strong: more Cooling Credits sold and deployed than any other month. And more failures, too: we lost radio links on a number of launches, made ineffective parachutes from garbage bags, learned that old latex is substantially less likely to make it to the stratosphere, and had our first balloon-deployed plane fail to release. But, we kept launching and hit 3,440 Cooling Credits confirmed delivered to the stratosphere. These included our highest altitude and biggest payload launches: we deployed 1,645 Cooling Credits at over 49km altitude.

Sales were solid, too: Andrew brought in $4,431 while also introducing merch and speaking with four potential Karl customers. Coachella anyone?

This month, we will:
Break $6,000 of sales.
Run Facebook and Instagram ads that get 10 conversions.
Deploy at least 4,000 Cooling Credits.
Get a plane payload to return from the stratosphere.

This is going to be a big year for us. We'll hit profitability and deploy over 100,000 Cooling Credits, which should make us a larger source of cooling in 2024 than any of the carbon dioxide removal companies. With your help, we will Cool Earth much more next year and for a couple centuries to come!

Not tropopausing any time soon,
Andrew and Luke

Happy 2024!

We are pleased to announce Luke Iseman, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Make Sunsets is set to speak at #CWAgora during #CERAWeek 2024. Stay updated on our latest speaker announcements at https://okt.to/eFs1aP.

We are pleased to announce that Andrew Song, Co-Founder, Make Sunsets will speak at #CWAgora at #CERAWeek 2024. Find the latest speaker announcements at https://okt.to/R9TJAn

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