Eddy

What Eddy does

Eddy is a water conditions intelligence platform that scores water bodies on a PRIME-to-AVOID scale for anglers, paddlers, and kayakers. The product synthesizes multiple environmental data streams — real-time flow rates, water temperature, barometric pressure, wind conditions (speed, direction, and forecast trend weighted for water activities), and solunar/moon-phase data — to produce activity-specific condition ratings and identify optimal windows up to five days ahead. A natural-language search interface ("fishing near Austin," "kayaking on the Guadalupe") maps plain-English queries to scored water bodies. The platform is positioned explicitly as a conditions utility, deliberately avoiding the social, catch-logging, and community features common in incumbent fishing apps, and is built as an alternative to generic weather applications that lack water-specific granularity.

The product is delivered currently via a self-serve web application, with an iOS mobile application in development per the company's website and product documentation. The business runs on a consumer/small-business subscription model with a 7-day free trial that auto-converts to a paid monthly subscription; specific pricing tiers are not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is product-led and direct-to-consumer, with no sales function or enterprise motion evident. The company is privately held, headquartered in Dubai, UAE, and operates as a project under the legal entity Violeta Labs. The platform competes with general-purpose weather apps (which lack water-specific inputs) and with crowdsourced fishing-report apps (which Eddy explicitly contrasts its real-data approach against).

Scale indicators — including founding year (2019), a single early-stage funding round of approximately $100,000, and 1–10 employees — describe a small, early-stage operation. No enterprise customers, partnerships, awards, patents, or disclosed revenue/ARR figures are on record. The lack of disclosed scale metrics, coupled with the niche vertical focus and PLG-only distribution, suggests the company is in early commercialization rather than scale-up.

Name

Eddy

Legal name

Violeta Labs

Website

https://geteddy.app

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Eddy is a water conditions intelligence platform that scores water bodies from PRIME to AVOID using flow rates, temperature, barometric pressure, wind, and solunar data, serving anglers, paddlers, and kayakers via a consumer subscription web app and forthcoming iOS app.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Dubai

HQ country

United Arab Emirates

HQ region

Middle East

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription Access: SaaS subscription model offering access to water conditions intelligence platform. 7-day free trial allows users to evaluate before commitment. Subscription provides ongoing access to real-time scoring, forecasts, and activity recommendations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Eddy is a water conditions intelligence platform that scores every water body from PRIME to AVOID by analyzing real-time and forecast environmental data — flow rates, water temperature, barometric pressure, wind, and solunar moon-phase data — to help individual anglers, paddlers, and kayakers decide when and where to go. The platform is delivered as a web-based SaaS subscription with a 7-day free trial and an iOS app in development, and supports plain-English activity- and location-based search.

Product overview

Eddy is a single unified water conditions intelligence platform that provides real-time scoring of water bodies from PRIME to AVOID. The platform analyzes multiple data streams including flow rates, water temperature, barometric pressure, wind conditions, and solunar calendar data to help anglers, paddlers, and kayakers determine optimal fishing and water activity windows. Users can search in plain English (e.g., 'fishing near Austin' or 'kayaking on the Guadalupe') and receive automatically scored conditions for their specific activity. Available on web with an iOS app in development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Eddy Water Conditions Intelligence Platform

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Fishidy: Fishing spot-mapping and conditions app for anglers. Direct overlap with Eddy on the angler segment and outdoor-recreation subscription model.
• Surfline: Surf forecasting platform with real-time wave and wind scoring plus multi-day forecasts on a subscription. Closest functional analog: water-specific activity scoring with subscription monetization.
• Buoyweather: Marine forecasting service drawing on buoy and NOAA data to deliver point-specific conditions for fishing and boating. Closest pure-data analog to Eddy's scoring model.
• PredictWind: High-resolution wind forecasting tuned for sailing, kiting, and paddling. Comparable use case and depth of forecasting for wind-driven water activities.
• Fishbrain: Largest fishing app with catch logs, spots, and integrated conditions data on a subscription. Overlaps directly with Eddy's angler use case and monetization model.
• onX Maps: Outdoor conditions and mapping platform spanning hunting, fishing, and offroad. Adjacent business model (subscription) and outdoor-recreation user overlap with Eddy.

Broad incumbents

• Navionics: Marine charts and conditions for boaters and anglers. Wider product scope but overlapping boater and angler conditions intelligence on a subscription.
• Garmin Marine / ActiveCaptain: Marine electronics vendor with an integrated app delivering conditions, charts, and forecasts to boaters. Hardware-rooted incumbent with comparable conditions intelligence for water users.
• Windy: Visual weather and wind platform widely used by paddlers, kiters, and sailors. Broader in scope than Eddy but directly competes for the same water-activity forecasting use case.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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 →

Frequently asked questions about Eddy