Alex Kubicek is the Founder and CEO of Understory. He started the company after he received a master’s degree in Atmospheric Science. His lifelong interest in weather drove him to create awarding winning curriculum for Weather and Climate 101 at UW-Madison, receive “Outstanding M.S. Thesis” for his work on cloud microphysics and hail formation, and revolutionize the weather space with next generation weather stations. Kubicek has led Understory through an accelerator program, a hardware seed stage, and an institutional financing of $2M lead by True Ventures.