Watershed

Enterprise climate platform for carbon measurement.

watershed.com

HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA

Sustainability

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 2, 2026

Overview

Watershed Technology, Inc. is a private climate-data and enterprise sustainability software company founded in 2019. Its mission is to accelerate the climate economy by helping companies measure, report, and reduce environmental impacts; the platform combines sustainability data, audit-ready reporting, expert advisory support, and marketplaces for carbon removal and clean-power projects.

Primary product

Watershed enterprise sustainability platform: emissions and ESG data collection/measurement, supplier and product-footprint analysis, sustainability and CSRD reporting, decarbonization planning, and access to vetted carbon-removal and clean-power projects. Newer AI capabilities include data-cleaning, analysis, reporting, and product-footprint workflows.

Founded

2019

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

Nearly 400 employees; public third-party estimates place it around 300–400

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Climate technology / enterprise software

Sub-industry

Climate data, carbon accounting, ESG and sustainability-management software

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States

New York, New York, United States

London, United Kingdom

Sydney, Australia

Paris, France

Berlin, Germany

Mexico City, Mexico

Denver, Colorado, United States

Business model

Enterprise B2B SaaS

Usage/subscription software for sustainability data and reporting

Paid climate-data products and databases

Marketplace/services revenue connected to carbon removal and clean-power procurement

Advisory and implementation support

Funding

Stage

Late-stage venture-backed private company; latest publicly announced round is Series C

Total raised

$184M

Latest round

Series C · Feb 2024

Latest amount

$100M

Series C

Feb 2024 · Greenoaks

$100M

Series B

Feb 2022 · Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins

$70M

Series A

Feb 2021 · Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins

$14M

People & investors

Leadership

Christian Anderson

Co-founder and CEO

Avi Itskovich

Co-founder; technical/product leadership

Taylor Francis

Co-founder

Greg Salmon

Head of Engineering

Rob Chesnut

General Counsel and Global Head of Policy

Carrie Simonds

Head of People

Alexa Schirtzinger

Chief Marketing Officer; Mexico City site lead

Sangwon Suh

Head of Science

Investors

Galvanize Climate Solutions

Patrick and John Collison

Sequoia Capital

USGS

Work & culture

Mission-oriented, high-ownership, collaborative, intense, transparent, and science- and policy-aware. Watershed describes customer obsession, prioritization, inclusion, curiosity, cross-functional learning, and taking responsibility for fixing problems as central operating principles.

Work style

Flexible

Compensation

Public job postings describe competitive, location- and level-dependent cash compensation plus equity and the benefits listed above. One developer-tooling posting showed an anticipated cash range of $173,900–$230,000; this is role-specific rather than a company-wide range.

Benefits

Equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

Unlimited paid time off

Paid parental leave

Fertility benefits

Mental-health programs

Product & market

Pricing

Enterprise pricing; public materials emphasize demos and tailored deployments rather than published list prices. Paid versions of specialized data products such as CEDA include additional breakdowns and support.

Differentiators

—Combines measurement, reporting, and emissions-reduction execution in one platform
—Granular, audit-ready emissions data with data lineage and a large emissions-factor database
—Embedded climate science, policy, and sustainability expertise
—Dedicated CSRD and other regulatory-reporting workflows
—Marketplace for vetted carbon-removal projects and clean-power procurement, including VPPAs
—Purpose-built sustainability AI rather than generic AI, with auditability and methodology controls
—Global enterprise coverage and sector-specific data, including supply-chain and product-footprint capabilities

Technology

Google Cloud Platform

Python

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Playwright

Temporal

Google Cloud Storage

SQL

Datadog

Looker

Figma

Customers

Airbnb

Spotify

FedEx

Visa

Dr. Martens

Carlyle Group

YETI

Aon

BBVA

General Mills

Klarna

General Motors

DP World

Canva

DoorDash

Competitors

Persefoni

Sweep

Plan A

Greenly

Sphera

IBM Envizi

Watershed-adjacent carbon-accounting and ESG-reporting platforms

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$10 million–$20 million annually; a third-party company profile estimates approximately $17 million, but Watershed does not publicly report revenue

contact@watershedclimate.com +1-415-267-1760

Signals & risks

Acquisition

Apr 2023

Watershed acquired CEDA, the Comprehensive Environmental Data Archive, to strengthen its global emissions database and carbon-accounting capabilities.

Source

Other

Jul 2025

Watershed expanded internationally with a Mexico City office. The office is intended as a regional hub and operates with employees in person four days per week; this is an expansion signal, not a negative event.

Source

Other

Aug 2025

Watershed and Stanford Sustainable Solutions Lab launched Cornerstone to preserve and expand access to foundational sustainability datasets, including Open CEDA and USEEIO.

Source

Latest news

Customers drive more than $500 million in new clean-energy investment

EIN Presswire / Watershed · Jul 2026

Watershed reported that customers had funded more than 270 solar and wind projects across six countries, adding nearly 400 MW of capacity.

Announcing new Watershed agents and the Watershed AI Fellowship

Watershed · Apr 2026

Watershed launched purpose-built AI agents for sustainability data cleaning and analysis and announced an eight-week AI Fellowship for customers.

Cornerstone Initiative Launches to Preserve and Expand Access to Foundational Sustainability Data

GlobeNewswire / Watershed · Aug 2025

Watershed and Stanford launched Cornerstone around Open CEDA and USEEIO, two major scope-3 accounting datasets.

DP World Partners with Watershed to Scale Sustainability Reporting and Low-Carbon Logistics Across Europe

GlobeNewswire / Watershed · Jul 2025

DP World selected Watershed for centralized emissions data, reporting, and low-carbon logistics analysis across Europe.

HowGood and Watershed expand partnership

Watershed blog · Apr 2025

Expanded partnership for granular scope 3.1 agricultural emissions data for food and beverage companies.

Jobs and careers at Watershed

32 jobs at Watershed

Manager, customer success

On-site

Customer

San Francisco; San Francisco, California, United States

4d ago

On-site

Full-time