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Ambee
Techstars '19Bengaluru, IN · Founded 2017 · 77 employees on LinkedIn · 7 known investors
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Ambee provides environmental and climate intelligence data platforms, including air quality, pollen, wildfire, and natural disaster datasets, that help businesses understand how climate and environmental variables impact their operations and risk. The company serves Fortune 500 companies and organizations across pharma, consumer health, media, and other industries globally.
Also known as Ambee Inc · Datair Technology Private Limited
Founders & leadership
Ambee was founded in 2017 by Madhusudhan Anand.
Investors · 7
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Ambee (legal name Datair Technology Private Limited) is an environmental and climate intelligence company that builds hyperlocal, globally complete datasets and delivers them to enterprises as APIs, map tiles, marketplace listings and bulk files. Its climate data suite covers air quality (all major pollutants with location-specific indices), weather and derived atmospheric parameters, pollen counts and risk levels for 30+ allergenic species grouped as tree, grass and weed, astronomy (sunrise, sunset, solar position, moon phases, twilight), influenza-like illness risk forecasts, wildfire activity and behaviour including radiative power and fire categories, and natural disasters in geospatial format with severity levels and event metadata.
On top of that data layer, Ambee sells packaged products: ClimaChain, a climate-driven demand forecasting and inventory intelligence tool that connects pollen, weather and flu signals to store-SKU level decisions; Clean Routing, which routes vehicles and commuters away from pollution and pollen hotspots and embeds into existing navigation and fleet apps; Ambee Alerts, configurable real-time environmental trigger notifications; and a visualization layer of embeddable map tiles and interactive maps compatible with Mapbox, Leaflet and OpenLayers. An asset-level climate risk product for disaster management is listed as forthcoming. Data is offered through APIs, map tiles, data marketplaces, and in CSV, NetCDF or Parquet formats delivered via SFTP or S3, and can be mapped to lat/lon coordinates, ZIP or postal codes, DMA, MSA or user-defined boundaries, with historical, present and forecast time series.
The company positions the data as analytics-grade and operational, tested against ground truth, companion datasets and climatologies, with coverage of any landmass worldwide including up to 50 miles offshore.
Founding story
Ambee traces its origin to 2017, when co-founder and CTO Madhusudhan Anand found that the nearest official air quality monitoring station to his home in Bengaluru was 13 km away and substantially underreported local conditions. After his infant son developed severe breathing problems, he built a rudimentary sensor and measured local air quality far above acceptable levels, with particulate matter (PM2.5) readings reaching around 800 ug/m3 and conditions exceeding acceptable levels by roughly 60%. The conclusion that existing environmental data could not be trusted at the local level became the company's founding premise. Ambee was founded in 2017 by Madhusudhan Anand, Akshay Joshi and Jaideep Singh Bachher, who had known each other for years through school and earlier startups.
Business model
B2B. Ambee sells environmental and climate datasets and derived software products to enterprises, with delivery through APIs, map tiles, cloud data marketplaces and file transfer. It also supports academic and non-commercial projects on a case-by-case basis and partners with consultancies, system integrators, data resellers and cloud data marketplaces.
Revenue comes from selling data and related services to businesses, alongside packaged products such as ClimaChain, Clean Routing, Ambee Alerts and visualization layers.
Traction
Company-reported figures include 100+ clients, 10T+ rows of climate data delivered and billions of API calls served, 8+ years of operation, 4-16x ROI claims, 200K+ alerts delivered monthly with sub-one-minute average trigger latency and 99.5% delivery reliability, and 15M+ routes calculated via Clean Routing. Campaign results cited include 3.5B+ earned media impressions and 3M+ sales for Allegra Airways, and sales, ad viewability and search interest lifts for Claritin. Earlier coverage reported air quality data for over 100,000 pin codes across 65 countries.
Latest developments
Recent additions include 30-day pollen forecasts, Ambee Alerts, and ClimaChain for climate-driven demand forecasting, with an asset-level climate risk and disaster management product announced as coming soon. Awards cited include a Silver Lion at Cannes 2024 for Allegra Airways, a Bronze Cannes Lion in 2025 for Allevia Passport, and a Nasscom Emerge 50 award in 2024.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Ambee positions itself as a provider of hyperlocal, globally complete environmental intelligence, claiming the largest and most accurate air quality data in Asia and one of the highest-resolution grids in the industry. It cites 100+ clients, Fortune 500 customers in pharma, media and consumer goods, and says three of the top five global allergy brands use its data.
Ambee emphasises proprietary sensor-derived ground truth combined with satellite, government and open data to produce gap-free hyperlocal coverage rather than interpolated or fragmented public data, flexible delivery formats and geographies, continuous historical-to-forecast time series, and packaged decision products (demand forecasting, routing, alerting) built on the same data foundation.
Technology
Ambee operates what it calls the Ambee Climate Engine, which fuses proprietary IoT sensor networks, government sensor data, open-source data, satellite imagery, meteorological data and human activity indicators such as population and garbage burning into large-scale data models producing gap-free, hyperlocal, temporally and spatially complete datasets. The company took a multimodal modelling approach after initially experimenting with open-source hardware, and holds an air quality patent secured in 2022. Outputs include historical, real-time and forecast layers, 30-day pollen and flu risk forecasts, and high-resolution grids mappable to arbitrary geographies.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales supported by an API playground, documentation and self-serve technical resources; distribution through cloud and data marketplaces (including listings on Datarade and SAP's data marketplace); and partnerships with consultancies, system integrators and resellers. Brand campaigns built on Ambee data, such as Allegra Airways and Claritin precision marketing, serve as public references.
Enterprises in pharma and consumer health, advertising and media, automotive, insurance, retail and consumer goods, consumer tech, finance, manufacturing and weather, plus governments, health researchers and academic users. Named or cited users and partners include Innovid, Navia Life Care, VitalFlo, Adylic, Razor, Kimberly-Clark's Kleenex, Allegra (Sanofi brand) and Claritin campaigns.
Geography
Headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, with a US entity, Ambee Inc, at 300 Witherspoon St, Suite 201, Princeton, New Jersey. Data coverage is global, spanning any landmass worldwide and up to 50 miles offshore; earlier reporting cited coverage of over 100,000 postcodes in 65 countries.
History
Ambee began by deploying proprietary air quality and pollen sensors to collect street-level data in Bengaluru and benchmarking it against official sources. Between 2018 and 2020 it launched air quality, pollen, weather and severe weather datasets and introduced "Pollen Pal" for Kimberly-Clark's Kleenex. In 2021 it expanded into wildfire, natural disaster and flu risk datasets and enabled climate-triggered advertising with global pharma brands. In 2022 it became a data partner to Fortune 500 companies in pharma, media and consumer goods and secured an air quality patent. Between 2023 and 2025 it launched 30-day pollen forecasts and Ambee Alerts, ran clinical trials on its data, and launched ClimaChain; the Ambee-powered Allegra Airways campaign won a Silver Lion at Cannes in 2024. As of 2026 the company states that three of the top five global allergy brands run on Ambee.
Risks & controversies
Much of the reported traction, accuracy and ROI data is company-stated rather than independently verified. Publicly available funding figures for the company are inconsistent across third-party trackers.
Compiled by commissioned research from 9 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
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Timeline · 7
launches, deals, and filingsThe Ambee-powered Allegra Airways navigation tool for allergy sufferers won a Silver Lion at the Cannes Lions 2024.
Between 2023 and 2025 Ambee launched 30-day pollen forecasts, Ambee Alerts, ran clinical trials on its data, and introduced ClimaChain, a climate-driven demand forecasting product.
Ambee states it secured an air quality patent in 2022, the same year it became a global data partner to Fortune 500 companies across pharma, media and consumer goods.
Added wildfire, natural disaster and flu risk datasets and enabled climate-triggered advertising with global pharma brands.
Between 2018 and 2020 Ambee launched its Air Quality, Pollen, Weather and Severe Weather datasets and introduced "Pollen Pal" for Kimberly-Clark's Kleenex.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Ambee do?
- Ambee is a Bengaluru-based climate intelligence company selling hyperlocal air quality, pollen, weather and disaster data via APIs.
- Who founded Ambee?
- Ambee was founded by Madhusudhan Anand in 2017.
- Who are Ambee's investors?
- Ambee's investors include Chakra Growth Fund, Ideaspring Capital, Inventus Capital Partners, Riso Capital, Season Two Ventures, Techstars, Venture Catalysts.
- Where is Ambee headquartered?
- Ambee is headquartered in Bengaluru, IN.