What UrbanFootprint does

UrbanFootprint, founded in 2014 in Berkeley, California, by urban planners Peter Calthorpe and Joe DiStefano, operates a cloud-native geospatial intelligence platform that delivers integrated climate, community, and built-environment data for climate resilience and urban planning applications. The platform's architecture combines three Data Foundations (Built Environment covering 160 million+ US parcels, People & Vulnerabilities, and Climate & Hazards) with three Data Experience layers (Analyst for GIS analytics, Explorer for visualization and dashboards, and Direct Data for integration and feeds). On top of these foundations, the company delivers Resilience Insights packaged as four solution areas (Climate Risk & Sustainability, Infrastructure & Mobility, Capital Markets & ESG, Public Service & Administration) plus specialized modules such as Grid Resilience Insights, Eviction Risk Insights, Foreclosure Risk Insights, Food Security Insights, and Assistance Program Intelligence.

The company targets four primary customer segments: government agencies (federal, state, local); electric, gas, and water utilities; financial institutions and insurance companies facing climate risk disclosure obligations; and, secondarily, urban planning firms and real estate developers. Named customers and trusted-by logos include Duquesne Light, Assured Guaranty, AECOM, WSP, HDR, RMI, Aclima, California state agencies (DCFS, CDFA, Cal OES), Second Harvest, and Fresno Metro.

UrbanFootprint generates revenue through SaaS subscription contracts with annual billing and custom enterprise pricing; no public rate card or self-serve tier is offered. Its go-to-market is sales-led, with direct enterprise field sales and inside sales motions targeting mid-to-large organizations. The company has raised approximately $43 million in disclosed venture funding across rounds in 2018, 2020, and 2022 (with the $25M Series B in May 2022 co-led by Citi Ventures, SPRINT, and Social Capital). In December 2024 the company was acquired by Autodesk, and in June 2025 it was acquired by LightBox, under whose ownership the UrbanFootprint platform continues to operate as a brand serving climate resilience and location intelligence use cases for the commercial real estate sector.

Name

UrbanFootprint

Legal name

UrbanFootprint, Inc.

Website

https://urbanfootprint.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

UrbanFootprint is a Berkeley-based geospatial intelligence platform that integrates built environment, climate hazard, and community vulnerability data across 160 million+ US parcels to serve utilities, financial institutions, government agencies, and urban planning organizations with resilience and planning analytics.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Geospatial Intelligence Platform

NAICS

Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (541370), Environmental Consulting Services (541620)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

GIS & Spatial Data Management Platforms (BPAMANAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Mapping & Basemap Platforms (Tiles/SDKs) (BPAMANAB), Geocoding, Search & Place Data Platforms (BPAMANAC), Satellite Imagery & Remote Sensing Geospatial Platforms (BPAMANAM), Remote Sensing & Earth Observation Analytics (Satellite/UAV/LiDAR, Image Processing) (EUAHAKAD), Environmental Data Management Platforms (EHS/EMS, LIMS, ELN, Compliance Data Hubs) (EUAHAKAA), Remote Sensing & Geospatial Vision (satellite/drone imagery) (HDAAAEAL)

Keywords

• Geospatial intelligence platform
• Climate risk analytics
• Urban planning software
• Community resilience data
• Infrastructure investment analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Berkeley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription Platform Access: UrbanFootprint operates primarily as a SaaS subscription business, providing cloud-based platform access to enterprise and government clients. Clients pay recurring subscription fees for access to the platform, data layers, and analytical tools. Pricing is typically annual subscription-based, with enterprise contracts potentially structured on a multi-year basis. The subscription model provides predictable recurring revenue and supports land-and-expand dynamics as clients extend usage to additional use cases, geographies, or departments within their organizations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

UrbanFootprint is a cloud-native geospatial intelligence platform that aggregates and synthesizes three foundational data layers — Built Environment (160M+ US parcels), People & Vulnerabilities, and Climate & Hazards — into a unified Resilient Decision Intelligence Platform. The platform is delivered through three data experiences: Analyst (GIS mapping and analytics), Explorer (visualization dashboards), and Direct Data (data feeds and integration), enabling climate risk assessment, urban planning, and infrastructure investment decisions for utilities, financial institutions, government agencies, and private corporations.

Product overview

UrbanFootprint offers a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on its Resilient Decision Intelligence Platform. The core platform consists of three Data Experiences (Analyst for GIS analytics, Explorer for visualization/dashboards, and Direct Data for feeds/integration) built upon three Data Foundations (Built Environment, People & Vulnerabilities, and Climate & Hazards). The platform delivers Resilience Insights across four solution areas: Climate Risk & Sustainability, Infrastructure & Mobility, Capital Markets & ESG, and Public Service & Administration. Specialized insight modules include Eviction Risk Insights, Food Security Insights, Foreclosure Risk Insights, Grid Resilience Insights, and Assistance Program Intelligence, all powered by the Base Canvas covering 160 million US land parcels.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Analyst: Cloud-based GIS mapping and analytics application for urban planning and resilience analysis.
• Explorer
• Direct Data
• Resilience Insights

Products and services

• Analyst Cloud-based GIS mapping and analytics application for urban planning and resilience analysis, enabling users to analyze built environment, community vulnerability, and climate hazard data at scale.
• Explorer Cloud-based map visualization and dashboard application for viewing and exploring resilience insights drawn from UrbanFootprint's data foundations.
• Direct Data Flexible data integration and feeds delivering UrbanFootprint datasets to customer systems, enabling data delivery and integration into enterprise workflows.
• Base Canvas A unified map of 160 million land parcels detailing people, places, and building characteristics across nearly every inch of the US, serving as the foundational data layer for UrbanFootprint's analytical applications.
• Grid Resilience Insights Energy-focused resilience insight integrating utility customer data on medically-dependent customers with natural disaster risk data and community vulnerability metrics for grid resilience planning.
• Food Security Insights Resilience insight providing detailed and targeted insights into food insecurity prevalence and risk, identifying households experiencing food insufficiency.
• Eviction Risk Insights Frequently updated, dynamic data product pinpointing and measuring the number of households at risk of eviction with precision down to the census block group level.
• Foreclosure Risk Insights Resilience insight providing detailed and targeted insights into foreclosure risk, helping officials and community groups identify households at risk.
• Assistance Program Intelligence Resilience insight providing consolidated data on food insecurity, eviction, and foreclosure risk to improve outreach targeting and program performance for assistance programs.

Quantifiable outcome

• Covers 160 million+ parcels across the United States, enabling national-scale analysis without the need to assemble data from multiple sources
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered supporting and minor.

• Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX)supportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerCenter for Planning Excellence (CPEX) is a Louisiana-based nonprofit focused on planning and community development. CPEX has partnered with UrbanFootprint to bring climate resilience and planning tools to Louisiana communities. The partnership enables CPEX to provide its constituents with access to UrbanFootprint's data and analytical tools for local planning and resilience efforts.
• Feeding LouisianaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFeeding Louisiana, the statewide food bank network, has partnered with UrbanFootprint to incorporate food security and food system vulnerability data into community planning analyses. This partnership enables UrbanFootprint to expand its community vulnerability data capabilities and supports Feeding Louisiana's mission to address food insecurity through data-driven planning.
• Housing Initiative at PennminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Housing Initiative at Penn (HIP), a research center at the University of Pennsylvania focused on affordable housing and community development, has partnered with UrbanFootprint to apply the platform's data and analytical tools to housing and community development research. The partnership supports HIP's research agenda while expanding UrbanFootprint's use cases in the affordable housing sector.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Esri: Esri is the dominant GIS platform provider serving urban planning, government, utilities, and infrastructure customers worldwide. Like UrbanFootprint, it sells geospatial analytics tools and basemap data to enterprise and public-sector users, though Esri is far broader in scope and infrastructure-heavy compared to UrbanFootprint's purpose-built climate/resilience focus.
• Four Twenty Seven (427) by Moody's: Acquired by Moody's in 2021, 427 offers parcel-level physical climate risk scores for corporate and financial portfolios. It targets the same financial-services and corporate climate-disclosure buyers as UrbanFootprint's Capital Markets & ESG solution.
• Climate Engine: Climate Engine is a cloud geospatial analytics platform serving climate risk, water resource, and land management use cases for government and commercial clients. It overlaps with UrbanFootprint's Analyst/Explorer experience layer, particularly for environmental and resilience applications.
• Jupiter Intelligence: Jupiter Intelligence delivers physical climate risk analytics for infrastructure, real estate, and financial institution portfolios. It competes head-to-head with UrbanFootprint's Capital Markets & ESG and Climate Risk & Sustainability solutions, particularly for Fortune 500 enterprise customers.
• First Street Foundation: First Street Foundation produces nationwide property- and parcel-level climate risk data (flood, fire, heat, wind) for the US. It is directly comparable to UrbanFootprint's Climate & Hazards data foundation and Resilience Insights, addressing overlapping use cases in real estate, lending, and government risk assessment.

Emerging players

• Reask: Reask provides probabilistic natural catastrophe and climate hazard modeling for financial and infrastructure clients. It competes in a narrower slice of UrbanFootprint's hazard analytics offering, focusing primarily on tropical cyclone and severe weather risk.

Others

• LightBox: LightBox is now UrbanFootprint's parent company following the June 2025 acquisition, operating a location intelligence platform for commercial real estate, financial services, and government. It is most relevant as an ecosystem partner — its CRE customer base and broader data assets become UrbanFootprint's primary distribution channel going forward.
• Policylink: Policylink produces equity-focused community indicators and vulnerability indices used by planners and governments. While not a direct commercial competitor, it represents an adjacent data/advocacy player in the same community-vulnerability analytics space UrbanFootprint serves through its People & Vulnerabilities data foundation.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Azure Maps / Planetary Computer: Microsoft provides cloud-native geospatial data and analytics (Azure Maps and Planetary Computer) that governments, utilities, and enterprises can integrate into broader Azure workflows. It represents a broad incumbent alternative with overlapping climate, land use, and demographic data capabilities, though without UrbanFootprint's purpose-built resilience insights.
• Google Earth Engine: Google Earth Engine offers petabyte-scale geospatial analytics broadly used by government agencies, researchers, and NGOs for climate, environmental, and urban analysis. It serves as a wider-platform alternative to UrbanFootprint for users with technical GIS capacity to build their own analytics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors9 records

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M&A

Investments

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

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