Climatiq

Climatiq is a Berlin-based carbon intelligence platform that provides software infrastructure for calculating greenhouse gas emissions. Its core product is an API and calculation engine that converts business activity data — transport and freight records, procurement and purchase orders, cloud computing usage, and office management data — into CO2e estimates in real time, so that carbon figures can be embedded in the systems where business decisions are made, such as ERP, accounting, business analytics and deal management software. The platform also targets scope 3 (indirect) emissions, which the company says are typically hard to measure because the underlying data is fragmented across many sources.

The company maintains a large database of emission factors aggregated from public and scientific sources including the IPCC, NGOs and universities; at seed stage it drew on 21 data sources, and the company states its database now contains over one million emission factors and powers billions of footprint calculations annually. Calculations link out to their underlying data source, data sources are checked twice before inclusion, and results can be filtered by year to allow retrospective estimates. Product lines include PCF Studio, Data Studio and an API Toolkit, with integrations for Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets and for business platforms including Celonis, Salesforce, Oracle, IFS and IntegrityNext. A Scientific Advisory Board — including Robert Armstrong (MIT Energy Initiative), Mike Berners-Lee (Lancaster University), Shelie Miller (University of Michigan), Marco Sakai (University of York), Wil van der Aalst (RWTH Aachen/Celonis) and Richard Wood (NTNU) — oversees methodology and the governance of its open emission factor database. More recent product work includes an AI "Mapping Agent" for matching technical inputs to emission factors.

Founding story

Climatiq was founded in 2021 by Hessam Lavi (CEO), Philipp von Bieberstein (CRO) and Isis T. Baulig (CTO). Lavi has said the team was drawn to building an infrastructure platform for carbon accounting because widespread emissions reporting creates a need for a trusted source of carbon data and confidence in methodology, and because emissions data was needed at the point of decision-making rather than only in annual reports.

Business model

Climatiq sells access to its carbon data and calculation infrastructure to businesses and software providers, charging on a usage basis (for example, per API request for a carbon estimate). The API has both free and paid tiers. Additional offerings include Studio products, spreadsheet and platform integrations, and data licensing.

Usage-based pricing: customers are charged according to consumption of the API/platform, with a free tier alongside paid plans.

Traction

Within roughly a year of launch the company reported going from zero to thousands of API users and live integrations across 700 projects. As of its About page, it reports more than 1 million emission factors, more than 35,000 users worldwide, billions of carbon footprint calculations per year, over 40 team members and €18M capital raised. Headcount was 14 at the 2022 seed round with plans to reach 20 by mid-2023.

Latest developments

In June 2025 Climatiq announced a $11.6 million Series A led by Alstin Capital, with Singular and Cherry Ventures participating, to be used to grow engineering headcount and develop its AI product; the company's About page refers to the same raise as €10M announced in June 2025. Recent product releases include a Mapping Agent the company says delivers 3x more accurate emission factor mappings for highly technical inputs.