Watershed acquired CEDA, the Comprehensive Environmental Data Archive, to strengthen its global emissions database and carbon-accounting capabilities.
SourceEnterprise climate platform for carbon measurement.
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Updated Aug 2, 2026
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
38 jobs at Watershed
Industry
Climate technology / enterprise software
Sub-industry
Climate data, carbon accounting, ESG and sustainability-management software
Offices
Business model
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
Feb 2024 · Greenoaks
Feb 2022 · Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins
Feb 2021 · Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins
Leadership
Co-founder and CEO
Co-founder; technical/product leadership
Co-founder
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
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
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
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$10 million–$20 million annually; a third-party company profile estimates approximately $17 million, but Watershed does not publicly report revenue
Watershed acquired CEDA, the Comprehensive Environmental Data Archive, to strengthen its global emissions database and carbon-accounting capabilities.
SourceWatershed 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.
SourceWatershed and Stanford Sustainable Solutions Lab launched Cornerstone to preserve and expand access to foundational sustainability datasets, including Open CEDA and USEEIO.
SourceEIN 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.
Watershed · Apr 2026
Watershed launched purpose-built AI agents for sustainability data cleaning and analysis and announced an eight-week AI Fellowship for customers.
GlobeNewswire / Watershed · Aug 2025
Watershed and Stanford launched Cornerstone around Open CEDA and USEEIO, two major scope-3 accounting datasets.
GlobeNewswire / Watershed · Jul 2025
DP World selected Watershed for centralized emissions data, reporting, and low-carbon logistics analysis across Europe.
Watershed blog · Apr 2025
Expanded partnership for granular scope 3.1 agricultural emissions data for food and beverage companies.