The Forecasting Company Launches: Foundation Models for Time Series

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February 9, 2026

The Forecasting Company recently launched

Launch YC: The Forecasting Company: Foundation models for time series
"Easy and accurate forecasts for navigating an uncertain world"

tl;dr: The same core technology that led to the LLM explosion can be adapted to build accurate and easy-to-use to use time series models. The Forecasting Company is building the enterprise-grade, plug-and-play forecasting systems of tomorrow. Talk to the company founders if you have forecasting and planning use-cases!


Founded by
Geoffrey Negiar & Joachim Fainberg

Meet Geoff and Joachim. They’ve built ML and forecasting systems at Amazon, Google, Bloomberg LP, JP Morgan, and Sonos. They are The Forecasting Company!

Problem 📉

  • Existing time-series forecasting solutions produce unreliable predictions with sometimes catastrophic results - they have a hard time handling activity spikes like Black Friday.
  • Developing and maintaining useful forecasting and planning models requires large and costly teams of data scientists and domain experts.
  • Data science teams are backlogged, leaving operators waiting for months before a use-case to be put into production.


Solution 📈

  • An easy-to-use, flexible and accurate forecasting system. No training required!
  • A massive training dataset of time-stamped data from many industries and domains (energy, transportation, etc.).
  • A forecasting model that can leverage user-provided input variables or the founders' own curated data streams.

What they’re forecasting these days

Bacteria levels in the Seine 🦠 🏊

Image Credits: The Forecasting Company

The forecasts show that swimmers lucked out today 🍀!

(Data provided courtesy of the Fluidion Open Data Initiative)

Learn More

🌐 Visit www.theforecastingcompany.com to learn more.
🤝 If you have forecasting problems in-house, or know of someone who does, please reach out - the founders would love to help!

🔗 Try their sandbox model on www.theforecastingcompany.com and let the founders know what you think via email.

👣 Follow The Forecasting Company on
LinkedIn.