What ISciences does

ISciences (legal entity ISCIENCES, L.L.C.) is a privately held research and analytics firm headquartered in Burlington, Vermont that has operated since 1997. The firm specializes in water security monitoring, climate analysis, corporate sustainability risk assessment, remote sensing, and human security. Its core asset is the Water Security Indicator Model (WSIM), a reduced-form hydrological model in continuous operation since April 2011 that produces monthly reports on current and forecast global freshwater surpluses and deficits at 0.25°x0.25° resolution with 1–9 month lead times, plus impact assessments on people, agriculture, and electricity generation.

ISciences' technology stack includes the WSIM core, specialized modules for electricity generation and agricultural production impacts, a physics-based BRDF model, the Tasselled Cap Transform, a Thermal Spiral method for LWIR data, a multi-stage sampling technique embedded in MDA Federal software, and a Vulnerability Analysis Framework grounded in peer-reviewed methodology. Six of twelve indicators in the World Resources Institute's Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas rely on ISciences analytics, and the firm has co-developed products with the Pacific Disaster Center (Lower Mekong Basin Flood Vulnerability Atlas) and MDA Information Systems (geospatial food/water security indicators for Africa).

The business model combines subscription-style recurring revenue from monthly Water Watch List reports, WSIM data, and customized visualizations with professional services revenue from corporate sustainability consulting, environmental risk assessments, and human security analyses. Customers include large enterprises in food and beverage, agricultural processing, retail, and pharmaceuticals, alongside government agencies and NGOs. Distribution is direct enterprise sales with consultative, customized engagements routed via [email protected]. The firm maintains a content marketing presence through monthly regional blog posts and a policy presentation series (Kyoto and Beyond). It has no disclosed outside funding, no parent company, and operates with 11–50 employees.

Name

ISciences

Legal name

ISCIENCES, L.L.C.

Website

https://isciences.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ISciences is a private Burlington, Vermont-based research and analytics firm that operates the Water Security Indicator Model (WSIM), providing global freshwater monitoring and forecasting plus corporate sustainability, remote sensing, and human security services to large enterprises, government agencies, and NGOs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental & Water Risk Analytics

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (541620), Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services (541360)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Water Quality & Watershed/Hydrologic Modeling (SWMM/HEC-RAS, Flood/Runoff/Nutrient) (EUAHAKAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Climate Risk & Scenario Analysis (TCFD/IFRS S2) (EUAHAJAD), Environmental Monitoring, Data & Reporting (Air/Water/Soil) (BPAIAMAC), Water Resources, WASH & Integrated Water Management (BPADALAH)

Keywords

• Water security monitoring
• Climate risk analytics
• Hydrological forecasting
• Remote sensing services
• Corporate sustainability assessment

Headquarters

HQ city

Ann Arbor

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. Data and Reports Subscription: Detailed data, customized visualizations, and reports from the Water Security Indicator Model are available for purchase. Monthly Water Watch List reports documenting current and forecast water anomalies globally.
2. Customized Analysis Services: Customized analyses and consulting services for corporate sustainability risk assessment, environmental strategy framing, and specialized assessments.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

ISciences operates the proprietary Water Security Indicator Model (WSIM), a reduced-form hydrological model that produces monthly near-global reports on soil moisture, runoff, evapotranspiration, snow water equivalent, and water anomalies with 1-9 month forecast lead times, in continuous operation since April 2011. Around this core engine, the company offers customized analyses and consulting on corporate environmental risk, remote sensing solutions, and human security (water, food, energy, public health), selling detailed data, customized visualizations, and reports to enterprise, government, and NGO clients.

Product overview

ISciences offers a unified platform centered on the Water Security Indicator Model (WSIM), a reduced-form hydrological model for monitoring and forecasting global water anomalies. WSIM serves as the core analytical engine, with specialized assessment modules for electricity generation impacts (WSIM Electricity Assessment) and agricultural production losses (WSIM Agricultural Assessment). The company also provides related data services including Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas indicators developed in partnership with the World Resources Institute, plus advisory services in Corporate Sustainability, Remote Sensing, and Human Security. The Kyoto and Beyond presentation series provides climate policy analysis. Products are available as monthly reports, detailed data, and customized visualizations for purchase.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Water Security Indicator Model (WSIM) Reduced-form hydrological model producing monthly reports on soil moisture, runoff, evapotranspiration, evapotranspiration deficit, snow water equivalent, and total blue water; monitors and forecasts water anomalies on a near-global basis with 1-9 month lead times at 0.25°×0.25° resolution. In continuous operation since April 2011. Detailed data, customized visualizations, and reports are available for purchase.
• Corporate Sustainability Services Consulting and analytical services that help large companies understand and manage exposure to environmental risks throughout the value chain, including assessment of risks to industrial accidents or sabotage, and locating vulnerable populations for regulatory compliance and corporate mitigation strategies.
• Remote Sensing Services Development and application of remote sensing techniques including models of optical properties (BRDF Model), algorithms for extracting information from remotely sensed data (Tasselled Cap Transform, Thermal Spiral), and multi-stage sampling techniques for solving specific user problems such as assessing arable land using satellite data.
• Human Security Analysis Analysis to anticipate threats to human security including water security, food security, energy security, and public health, using the Vulnerability Analysis Framework to assess impacts of stresses on coupled human-environment systems.
• Lower Mekong Basin Flood Vulnerability Atlas Spatially explicit assessment of vulnerability to flooding in the Lower Mekong Basin, developed in partnership with Pacific Disaster Center, considering exposure, sensitivity, and resilience to flooding.
• Geospatial Indicators of Food and Water Security for Africa Geospatial indicators of food and water security for Africa developed in partnership with Earth Satellite Corporate (now MDA Information Systems), demonstrated in an integrated assessment framework that reliably predicts food crises.
• Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas Indicators Six of twelve indicators in the World Resources Institute Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas (baseline water stress, inter-annual variability, seasonal variability, upstream storage, return flow ratio, and upstream protected land), plus projections of change in water stress from 2010 to 2020, 2030, and 2040 under three coupled socioeconomic and climate scenarios.

Quantifiable outcome

• WSIM forecasts have been validated against subsequent observations
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• World Resources Institute (WRI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerISciences partnered with WRI to help define the Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas and develop a consistently defined suite of water risk indicators. ISciences analytics are used for six of the twelve indicators in Aqueduct (baseline water stress, inter-annual variability, seasonal variability, upstream storage, return flow ratio, and upstream protected land). Also includes ISciences projections of change in water stress from 2010 to 2020, 2030, and 2040 under three coupled socioeconomic and climate scenarios.
• Pacific Disaster CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerISciences partnered with Pacific Disaster Center to develop the Lower Mekong Basin Flood Vulnerability Atlas - a spatially explicit assessment of vulnerability to flooding in the Lower Mekong Basin considering exposure, sensitivity, and resilience.
• MDA Information SystemscoreTechnology or IntegrationISciences partnered with Earth Satellite Corporate, now MDA Information Systems, to develop geospatial indicators of food and water security for Africa. Also demonstrated these indicators could be used in an integrated assessment framework that reliably predicts food crises. Multi-stage sampling technique embedded in MDA Federal commercial remote sensing software.
• Prof. Svea Closser at Middlebury CollegeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerISciences partnered with Prof. Svea Closser at Middlebury College to assess unintended side-effects of targeted polio eradication campaigns on routine immunization and primary health care. Research published in Journal of Infectious Diseases and BMC Public Health.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• World Resources Institute (WRI): WRI operates the Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, which uses ISciences analytics for 6 of 12 indicators. As a nonprofit research organization producing global water risk data, WRI is simultaneously the closest collaborator and most direct comparator in the water risk analytics space.
• Jupiter Intelligence: Jupiter Intelligence provides climate risk analytics for physical risks (flood, wildfire, heat, water) to enterprises, investors, and governments. Comparable to ISciences in targeting enterprise sustainability and infrastructure operators with forward-looking climate and water risk data.
• Watershed Technology: Watershed offers an enterprise climate and sustainability platform used by large corporates for emissions accounting, water risk, and disclosure reporting. Comparable in serving large enterprises in food/beverage, retail, and pharma for corporate sustainability risk management.

Broad incumbents

• Sphera: Sphera provides enterprise ESG, sustainability, and operational risk software including water-related risk modules. A broader incumbent offering integrated sustainability software with comparable enterprise customers in industrials and consumer goods.
• S&P Trucost: Trucost (part of S&P Global) provides environmental data and analytics including water risk to investors and corporates. A larger, well-capitalized incumbent with deep enterprise sales competing in the same corporate sustainability buyer set as ISciences.
• Climate Corporation (Bayer): Climate Corporation, now part of Bayer, delivers agricultural climate and weather analytics for farming. Comparable to ISciences' agricultural assessment module and overlap in agricultural processing supply chain risk customers.
• DTN: DTN provides weather, climate, and agricultural data to enterprise and agricultural customers. Comparable in delivering hydrological/agricultural data products to food, beverage, and agricultural processing enterprises that overlap with ISciences' customer segments.

Emerging players

• aWhere: aWhere delivers agricultural weather and climate data for global crop monitoring and food security applications. Comparable to ISciences' agricultural assessment and food security products for agribusiness and development sector customers.
• Descartes Labs: Descartes Labs provides geospatial analytics and satellite-derived intelligence for agriculture, sustainability, and supply chain applications. Comparable to ISciences in using remote sensing techniques to deliver environmental and agricultural analytics.

Regional players

• Pacific Disaster Center: Pacific Disaster Center is a disaster risk reduction organization with whom ISciences partnered on the Lower Mekong Basin Flood Vulnerability Atlas. Comparable in producing spatially explicit vulnerability atlases for government and humanitarian end users.

Market position

Strengths4 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

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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 →

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