Ecosophy

What Ecosophy does

Ecosophy ehf is a privately held Icelandic startup (registered in Reykjavík, kennitala 580821-1700) that operates EarthOS, a unified environmental data platform designed to make large volumes of diverse planetary datasets accessible and queryable through a single web interface, a REST API, native plug-ins for Q-GIS and ArcGIS, and an embeddable public web viewer. Its core technical differentiator is a proprietary formula engine that combines multiple datasets (e.g., computing wet-bulb temperature from air temperature and humidity) behind one spatio-temporal data layer that ingests 13 leading datasets (precipitation, air temperature, wind speed/direction, humidity, snow depth, wave height/direction, air visibility, shortwave/longwave flux, sea ice, soil water) updated mostly daily, with published plans to expand into land, atmosphere, ocean, climate and emergency datasets.

The platform exposes configurable threshold-based SMS/email alerts with user-defined recommended actions, descriptive-statistic and event-frequency analytics, time series, reports and short film clips, and is sold via tiered monthly subscriptions in Euros: Basic €40/mo, Standard €300/mo (available with a 14-day free trial), Premium €1,500/mo, an Academic discount at the Basic/Standard rates, and an Enterprise tier from €5,000/mo offering proprietary dataset upload, on-premises data store, single sign-on and bespoke packages. Target verticals span energy and infrastructure, finance and insurance, disaster risk, agriculture and forestry, logistics and shipping, defense and intelligence, fisheries and aquaculture, government, land-use planning, biodiversity and academic research.

The company is co-founded by Smári McCarthy (CEO, ex-Icelandic MP and OCCRP CTO) and Steph Matti (COO, PhD Anthropology, ex-UNHCR/UNOCHA), with Birgir Magnússon (CFO, ex-EpiEndo Pharmaceuticals) and Ólafur Rögnvaldsson (Chief Scientist, PhD Meteorology and founder of Belgingur Weather) on the leadership team. To date Ecosophy has been funded exclusively through non-dilutive sources, including the EUSPA innovation prize (€30,000), the Tækniþróunarsjóður Sproti grant via Rannis, and the Islandsbanki Entrepreneur Fund grant, alongside recognition such as Top 10 in Iceland's Gulleggið startup competition.

Name

Ecosophy

Legal name

Ecosophy ehf

Website

https://ecosophy.is

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Ecosophy ehf operates EarthOS, a unified environmental data platform that aggregates 13+ planetary datasets behind a web interface, REST API, and Q-GIS/ArcGIS plug-ins. It serves enterprise, public-sector and research customers across energy, insurance, agriculture, disaster risk, defense and academia via tiered monthly subscriptions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Data Platform

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

akta.pro primary industry

Satellite Imagery & Remote Sensing Geospatial Platforms (BPAMANAM)

Keywords

• Environmental data platform
• Climate analytics software
• Geospatial data api
• Weather forecasting tools
• Earth observation software

Headquarters

HQ city

Reykjavík

HQ country

Iceland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription SaaS (Basic, Standard, Premium, Academic): Recurring monthly subscriptions for EarthOS web interface access with tiered feature bundles and included API call volumes (1,000 in Standard, 100,000 in Premium). Free 14-day trial of Standard available; Academic tier priced at Standard rates for students/researchers.
2. Usage-based API Overages & Enterprise Tier: Enterprise tier starts at €5,000/month and includes up to 1 million API calls, ability to upload proprietary/GIS datasets, bespoke project assistance, public-facing data viewer, on-premises data store, and single sign-on — enabling consumption-based and customized enterprise contracts.
3. Freemium Trial Conversion: 14-day free trial of EarthOS Standard acts as a freemium funnel into paid monthly subscriptions.
4. Professional Services / Bespoke Project Work: Enterprise customers receive 10 hours of assistance developing bespoke projects; includes export, share, presentations and short film clip generation — implying services and customization revenue embedded in Enterprise contracts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Ecosophy sells EarthOS, a SaaS platform that provides access, visualization, alerts, analytics, formulas and time series over a unified library of planetary environmental datasets (precipitation, temperature, wind, sea ice, soil water, etc.), delivered through a web interface, a REST API, an embeddable public viewer, and plug-ins for Q-GIS and ArcGIS. The platform is offered via tiered monthly subscriptions (Basic €40, Standard €300, Premium €1,500, Enterprise from €5,000) plus an Academic tier, with API call quotas up to 1 million per month at the top tier. EarthOS is supported by Copernicus and EUSPA data and targets enterprise, public sector, energy, finance/insurance, agriculture, logistics, defense and research users globally.

Product overview

Ecosophy offers a single unified platform, EarthOS, supported by three distinct product surfaces: the EarthOS Interface (the user-facing web application for visualizations, alerts, aggregates, formulas and time series), the EarthOS API (for developers to integrate environmental datasets and analytics into their own systems), and the EarthOS Web Viewer (a public-facing, embeddable visualization layer). Together these components share the same underlying environmental dataset catalogue and formula engine, allowing users to view, query, and embed environmental data via web, API, or GIS plug-ins (Q-GIS and ArcGIS). The OverView prototype represents the early branding of what became the EarthOS platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• EarthOS: Environmental data platform providing access, visualization, formulas, alerts, analytics, and API access to large volumes of planetary environmental datasets (weather, climate, ocean, atmospheric, and land data) over any time scale.

Products and services

• EarthOS Platform EarthOS is Ecosophy's core environmental data platform providing access, visualization, alerts, analytics, formulas and time series over large volumes of diverse planetary environmental datasets via a web interface, an API, plug-ins for Q-GIS and ArcGIS, and an embeddable public web viewer.
• EarthOS API Developer-facing REST API that returns points, tracks, maps and time series from EarthOS datasets and can leverage the EarthOS formula engine to return calculated queries combining multiple environmental datasets.
• EarthOS Web Viewer Embeddable public-facing web viewer built on EarthOS map visualization tools that allows customers to publish EarthOS-powered projects or their own datasets on their own websites for public audiences.
• EarthOS Plug-ins for Q-GIS and ArcGIS Native plug-ins for Q-GIS and ArcGIS that allow users to pull EarthOS data and analytics directly into existing GIS workflows.

Quantifiable outcome

• Won €30,000 prize from the EUSPA (EU Space Agency) innovation competition for the OverView prototype (2023)
• +3 more outcomes

Segments13 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Space IcelandminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSpace Iceland is listed twice on Ecosophy's homepage as a partner organization, indicating a close ongoing relationship in the Icelandic space/tech ecosystem. Limited public detail beyond logo placement.
• GASP (gasp.world)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGASP is listed as an Ecosophy partner via homepage logo placement. No additional public detail available on the nature of the partnership.
• EDIH (European Digital Innovation Hub, edih.is)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEDIH is shown as an Ecosophy partner on the homepage, suggesting Ecosophy participates in an EDIH ecosystem to support digital innovation and SME adoption.
• Icelandic Startups (Gulleggið)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerEcosophy participated in and reached the Top 10 of Gulleggið, Iceland's largest and oldest startup competition run by Icelandic Startups (Feb 2022), generating brand visibility and ecosystem connections.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• OpenWeather: OpenWeather provides weather and climate APIs and historical/forecast data with tiered pricing and embeddable maps — directly comparable to EarthOS's API-first, tiered subscription model for weather and environmental datasets.
• Visual Crossing: Visual Crossing offers a weather and climate data API and historical/forecast datasets for enterprise analytics and BI workflows — same API-first, dataset-aggregation, developer-target positioning as EarthOS's API product.
• Jupiter Intelligence: Jupiter Intelligence delivers climate-risk analytics and physical-risk data to insurance, financial and infrastructure clients using global Earth observation datasets — overlapping with Ecosophy's Finance & Insurance, Energy & Infrastructure, and Government use cases.
• Descartes Labs: Descartes Labs provides a geospatial analytics platform that fuses satellite imagery, weather, climate and other Earth observation data behind APIs and dashboards for agriculture, energy and government customers — same data-fusion, API-first and vertical-analytics model as EarthOS.
• Tomorrow.io (formerly ClimaCell): Tomorrow.io operates a weather intelligence platform with an API and web interface offering forecasts, alerts and analytics for logistics, agriculture, energy and on-premises deployments — directly comparable to EarthOS's alerts, API, and weather/climate data offerings.
• Climate Engine: Climate Engine is a cloud-based climate and environmental data analytics platform offering API and web access to satellite and climate datasets with analytics, visualizations and decision-support outputs — directly comparable to Ecosophy's EarthOS formula engine, API, and dataset aggregation model.

Broad incumbents

• DTN: DTN is a large established provider of weather, climate and agricultural intelligence to agriculture, energy, logistics and government customers — a much broader incumbent with overlapping capabilities to EarthOS in weather, alerts, and operational decision-support analytics.
• Esri (ArcGIS): Esri's ArcGIS platform is the dominant geospatial information system with plug-in architecture and a massive enterprise/government installed base — Ecosophy's ArcGIS plug-in integrates into this ecosystem, and Esri represents both a critical distribution channel and a potential broad incumbent competitor for environmental analytics.
• Planet Labs: Planet Labs operates one of the largest commercial Earth observation satellite constellations and exposes imagery and analytics via APIs and GIS plug-ins; while primarily an upstream data provider, Planet competes with EarthOS for analytical applications over global geospatial data.
• IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite: IBM's Environmental Intelligence Suite combines the Weather Company data, geospatial analytics, and AI for climate-risk, supply chain and ESG use cases — a broad incumbent with overlapping Earth observation, weather, climate, and ESG reporting offerings to Ecosophy's target verticals.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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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