What Klir does

Klir is a B2B SaaS company that provides an integrated operational data hub for water utilities, replacing fragmented legacy point solutions with a single platform for compliance and operational data management. Founded in 2018 by David Lynch (CEO) and Elaine Kelly (COO) — both former European water-utility consultants — Klir serves drinking water, wastewater, industrial pretreatment, and environmental compliance teams at public and private water utilities across the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, and Ireland, with named customers including Southern Nevada Water Authority, Halifax Water, Denver Water, Aquarion Water Company, Las Vegas Valley Water District, Moulton Niguel, Peace River Manasota, Central Contra Costa Sanitary District, City of Tallahassee, Contra Costa Water District, Irvine Ranch Water District, SCV Water, City of Kalamazoo, and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

The platform is built on Microsoft Azure infrastructure and consists of four compliance modules — Klir Comply for Drinking Water, Wastewater, Community (industrial pretreatment), and Environment — that share a common data model and integrate with LIMS, GIS, SCADA, CC&B, Active Directory, Office 365, and Power BI. Klir holds USPTO-granted patent-pending status covering its integrated water management architecture, ships a proprietary 24-hour data migration framework, and offers "Boots" (an Irish Water Spaniel-branded Gen AI assistant, including a June 2023 ChatGPT integration) for natural-language Q&A, trend insights, anomaly detection, and automated reporting. The platform is SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and GDPR compliant, with 256-bit AES encryption and a CROMERR-compliant customer portal for industrial pretreatment self-monitoring.

Klir generates revenue primarily through multi-year enterprise SaaS subscriptions sold via direct field sales, the Microsoft Azure Marketplace (with Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment / MACC), and Cooperative Contracts Purchasing Programs, with bundled professional services for data extraction, structuring, validation, migration, and in some cases onsite deployment. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Klir is a privately-held, founder and employee-controlled company that has raised approximately $33.5M in total funding across a 2018 seed round, a $3.1M 2020 round, a $16M Series A led by Insight Partners in November 2021, and a $17.5M growth financing in January 2026 (a $10M Series B equity round with Insight Partners participation plus a $7.5M credit facility from CIBC Innovation Banking).

Name

Klir

Legal name

Klir

Website

https://klir.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Klir is a SaaS data hub for water utilities, consolidating drinking water, wastewater, industrial pretreatment, and environmental compliance workflows on Microsoft Azure. Founded in 2018, it serves public and private water utilities across North America, Australia, Brazil, and Ireland.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Water utility compliance and operational data software

NAICS

Water Supply and Irrigation Systems (22131), Water Supply and Irrigation Systems (221310), Computer Facilities Management Services (541513), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Water Supply (4941), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Management, LIMS & Compliance Software (ELN, eDMS, reporting automation) (EUANAJAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Distribution System Water Quality & Integrity Monitoring (residuals, DBPs, nitrification, corrosion) (EUANAJAI), Real-Time Leak Alarms & Event Management (Analytics Platforms, Workflows) (EUANAKAK)

Keywords

• Water utility compliance software
• Environmental data management platform
• Water quality monitoring software
• Utility regulatory reporting SaaS
• Industrial pretreatment software

Headquarters

HQ city

Reno

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. SaaS subscription: Primary revenue stream delivered as a multi-tenant cloud subscription via direct sales, the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, or Cooperative Contracts Purchasing Programs; designed for whole-utility rollouts as well as pilot/team-level deployments. Multi-year contracts are available through Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC).
2. Professional services / data migration: Specialist-led implementation and data migration services bundled with SaaS deployments, including data extraction, structuring, validation, transfer, and in some cases onsite deployment performed by Klir's dedicated implementation team.
3. Marketplace transaction revenue: Purchases made through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace (directly or using MACC) provide a marketplace-distribution revenue path for the same SaaS platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Klir sells a cloud-based SaaS water management platform that acts as a single operational data hub for drinking water and wastewater utilities. The platform centralizes permits, sampling, monitoring plans, inspections, and compliance data into one system, replacing dozens of legacy point solutions, and delivers AI-driven trend insights, automated regulatory reporting (SDWA, NPDES, DMR/NetDMR), and CROMERR-compliant industrial pretreatment workflows. It is sold in four compliance modules (Drinking Water, Wastewater, Community/Industrial Pretreatment, Environment) on Microsoft Azure, with security certifications including SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and NIST.

Product overview

Klir offers a single unified SaaS water management platform that serves as a single operating system for drinking water and wastewater utilities. The platform is architected around four compliance modules — Klir Comply for Drinking Water, Klir Comply for Wastewater, Klir Comply for Community (industrial pretreatment), and Klir Comply for Environment — that share a common data model, centralized dashboards, sampling management, permit management, and AI-driven insights delivered through Boots, Klir's AI assistant. The core platform integrates with utilities' existing systems (LIMS, GIS, SCADA, Active Directory, Office 365, CC&B, Power BI) and is built on Microsoft Azure with SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and NIST compliance for military-grade security.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Klir Comply for Drinking Water: Water management software module ensuring clean drinking water for communities; manages SDWA permit adherence, sample management, alerts, and compliance reporting.
• Klir Comply for Wastewater
• Klir Comply for Environment
• Klir Comply for Community
• Boots

Products and services

• Klir Water Management Platform
• Klir Comply for Drinking Water
• Klir Comply for Wastewater Module of the Klir platform that simplifies NPDES reporting, unifies wastewater compliance data sources, automates effluent monitoring and DMR reporting, and provides instant alerts on contaminant trends and exceedances.
• Klir Comply for Community (Industrial Pretreatment) Module of the Klir platform that digitally transforms industrial pretreatment programs, including discharge permit management, FOG (fats, oils, and grease) management, liquid waste haulage, customer management, surcharging, and CROMERR-compliant data transfer.
• Klir Comply for Environment Module of the Klir platform that centralizes permits, files, and inspections, providing environmental compliance management with real-time dashboards, automated schedules, GIS-tagging, and AI-powered issue detection for utility operators.

Quantifiable outcome

• 40 hours/month average admin time saved with Klir
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability9 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Fracta: Fracta applies machine learning to water-utility pipe failure prediction and asset risk modeling. It is an emerging player intersecting Klir's water-utility AI/data theme, but focused on infrastructure-condition analytics rather than Klir's compliance-and-operational-data-hub positioning.

Direct peers

• Sedaru: Sedaru is a water-utility-focused operational data and asset management platform for drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities. It is the closest direct competitor to Klir in unifying utility operational data, work orders, and compliance workflows for similar municipal customers.
• TaKaDu: TaKaDu provides cloud-based analytics for water utilities focused on leak detection, network monitoring, and operational efficiency. Comparable to Klir in targeting water-utility operators with SaaS-based data analytics, although TaKaDu leans more on event detection while Klir is broader across compliance and operations.

Broad incumbents

• Esri: Esri's ArcGIS platform underpins utility GIS, asset mapping, and increasingly field-operations workflows for water utilities worldwide. Esri is a broad incumbent with deep penetration in Klir's target customer base; Klir differentiates by layering compliance/regulatory workflows on top of GIS integrations rather than competing head-on.
• Tyler Technologies: Tyler Technologies is a large municipal-software vendor whose ERP, utility billing, and regulatory products are deployed across many US local governments. It overlaps with Klir's government-utility buyer base at scale, though Tyler's water-related capabilities are typically billing/ERP rather than compliance/operational-data.
• Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems provides infrastructure engineering software including water and wastewater network design and asset-performance solutions (e.g., OpenFlows, WaterOPS). It serves the same utility-customer base as Klir with a broader digital-twin and engineering focus, competing for utility IT and engineering budget allocations.
• Xylem: Xylem is a global water technology company whose software portfolio (including VueWorks and utility analytics offerings) addresses water-utility operational and asset management needs. As a multi-billion-dollar incumbent, Xylem overlaps with Klir's water-utility software customer base at much greater scale and breadth.
• Innovyze (Autodesk): Innovyze, now part of Autodesk, offers water infrastructure modeling and simulation software (InfoWater, InfoWorks ICM) widely used by water utilities. It is a broad incumbent in the water-utility software market; Klir's compliance-and-operational focus is adjacent to Innovyze's hydraulic-modeling depth.
• Accela: Accela provides a civic-engagement and permitting platform widely used by state and local governments, including for environmental and utility permitting. It competes for the same government-customer wallet as Klir in the permitting/compliance software category, though Accela is general-purpose civic software rather than water-specific.
• Trimble Cityworks: Trimble's Cityworks is an established GIS-centric asset management and work-order platform used by municipalities and water utilities. It competes with Klir for the same utility IT budgets on operational/asset workflows, though Cityworks is broader across all municipal assets while Klir is purpose-built for water.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors6 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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