Dropped out of UC Berkeley to build water-conservation startup before exiting.
About
Augustus Doricko is the founder and CEO of Rainmaker, the Southern California startup using drone-based cloud seeding to engineer rain on demand over drought-stricken farmland.
Accomplishments
Founded Rainmaker in 2023 after dropping out of UC Berkeley one class shy of a physics degree
Raised over $31M including a $6.3M seed and a Series A led by Lowercarbon Capital
Won a Thiel Fellowship the year after founding Rainmaker
Secured Oregon's first rainfall-enhancement permit since 1976 and verified net-new precipitation
Scaled Rainmaker to 120+ employees with state-government and farming-association contracts
Pricing breakdown
Accomplishments16 · 35%
Funding · $6.3M raised
Mainstream popularity30 · 25%
Social popularity49 · 25%
X · 36.7K followers · 6.6 tweets/day · verified
Net worth8 · 15%
Composite
27/100
Intrinsic
$22.44
Market
+0.00%
Intrinsic price is set by the four-factor fundamentals score (35/25/25/15). Market price floats around it via a constant-product AMM — every trade moves the curve.
