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The enterprise climate platform — carbon measurement, reporting, and reduction for the regulatory era
HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States | Founded: 2019 | Employees: ~300-400 (est.) | Stage: Late Stage VC ($1.8B valuation) | Website: https://www.watershed.com
Watershed was founded in 2019 by Avi Itskovitch, Christian Anderson, and Taylor Francis — former Stripe employees who had built Stripe Climate, the product letting businesses route a percentage of revenue to carbon removal. They saw that corporate climate action was bottlenecked on data: companies couldn't reduce what they couldn't measure at audit-grade quality, and reporting frameworks were multiplying. Watershed's answer is the 'carbon ledger' — the climate equivalent of financial accounting software, with the same rigor: granular, auditable, per-transaction emissions data across Scopes 1, 2, and 3.
The platform spans the full climate workflow: measure (the leading granular emissions database, built on real supplier and activity data rather than industry averages), report (disclosure p
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