As companies come under growing pressure to prove their climate impact is more than just marketing spin, Berlin-based startup Climatiq is betting that emissions tracking should be as routine and also as automated as managing inventory or payroll.
The German startup has just closed a €10 million Series A funding round, led by Alstin Capital with participation from Cherry Ventures and Singular, aimed at making carbon data a live metric inside the systems businesses already use.
Instead of adding another dashboard to already overloaded sustainability teams, Climatiq plugs into existing enterprise tools including ERPs, logistics software, procurement platforms in order to calculate and surface emissions data where day-to-day decisions actually happen.
“Carbon shouldn’t be an annual report issue. It needs to show up when someone hits ‘ship’ or signs a supplier contract,” says Hessam Lavi, Climatiq’s co-founder and CEO.
Earlier this month, we also featured 10 sustainable startups in our World Environment Day special on climate-tech startups making a tangible impact.
From jobtech to climate infrastructure
Climatiq was founded in 2021 by Hessam Lavi (an Iranian-born Swede who’s also a founder of Jobspotting) and technologists Isis T Baulig, and Ex-Google Philip von Bieberstein, who saw an opportunity to apply infrastructure thinking to a messy problem: calculating carbon emissions at scale and in context.
Their solution is an API-first platform that connects with over 200 business systems, including tools used by companies like Celonis, Siemens, and IFS, enabling automated emissions calculations across supply chains, operations, and finance. In the past year alone, Climatiq has processed more than a billion carbon calculations.
Its dataset includes over 200,000 scientifically vetted emission factors, managed in collaboration with a scientific advisory board. The company says it’s especially focused on Scope 3 emissions, those tied to a company’s value chain which typically make up the largest share of emissions but are also the hardest to track.
The new capital will go toward improving Climatiq’s AI tools, which help match company activity data with the right emissions factors, especially for fragmented or indirect data sets. It will also be used to expand integration partnerships and add more sector-specific data to its platform.
“Businesses are starting to treat carbon like cost, something they want to manage down. But to do that, they need real-time, reliable numbers, not just estimates,” said Alexander Meyer-Scharenberg, Principal at Alstin Capital.
Alstin, a Munich-based VC, has previously backed B2B startups like Personio and GridX. Fellow investors Cherry Ventures and Singular bring experience from scaling enterprise SaaS and infrastructure companies.
Not alone in the race
Climatiq is one of several startups racing to define the infrastructure layer for corporate carbon data. Others in the space could include Watershed, Normative, Emitwise, and Sweep, each taking slightly different approaches ranging from full-service platforms to carbon accounting software.
Where Climatiq differs is in its insistence that emissions tracking shouldn’t require a separate platform. Instead, it aims to embed emissions logic directly into the operational core of the business.
For now, the company is staying focused on infrastructure and scale, not visibility or flashy branding.
“Carbon is increasingly part of every decision businesses make,” said Lavi. “Our job is to make sure they have the data to make the right ones.”
Know about investors: backers with a climate-tech track record
Alstin Capital, the lead investor, is a Munich-based VC fund with a focus on high-growth B2B startups. They’ve previously backed companies such as etalytics, Personio known for transforming complex data into decision-ready intelligence.
Cherry Ventures, another backer, is known for early bets on Planet A Foods and infarm, while Singular has invested in startups like Orus, Fairmat and more.
