RIISE

What RIISE does

RIISE is a 2024-founded, Delaware-domiciled (registered in Dover) private company that combines satellite imagery with AI to remotely scan commercial real estate portfolios and identify decarbonization retrofit opportunities. Its platform, the RIISE Sustainability OS, fuses geospatial, building, energy, financial, compliance, and quality-assurance data into a single decision layer, currently covering 17.5M+ datasets across millions of properties globally. AI agents continuously inspect scanned buildings, surface retrofit actions (solar, HVAC, LED lighting, envelope insulation), simulate ROI, and rank actions by CAPEX, OPEX, and CO2 impact. The company reports live metrics such as 2,481+ buildings scanned, $2.40M+ in OPEX savings year-to-date for customer portfolios, and 11,800+ tonnes of CO2 avoided, alongside case-level figures including 1,420 solar-ready rooftops identified in a Midtown grid sample and 284 ageing HVAC units flagged with $5.1M/yr OPEX opportunity.

The commercial offering is organized as a core platform plus four vertical modules: Asset Managers (portfolio-wide ESG reporting and risk ranking), Construction (embodied carbon calculation and material optimization), HVAC & Solar (bulk prospect identification for suppliers, exported to CRM), and Geospatial Analytics (custom sustainability tooling). Revenue mechanics are subscription-based, quote-priced, and sales-led, targeting enterprise and mid-market commercial portfolios of 250-600 assets and 1-3M m². Go-to-market is enterprise field sales via 'Book a demo' CTAs, with offices in London (EMEA) and Los Angeles (North America). The company has 1-10 employees and a single disclosed $100,000 seed round from gener8tor and Right Side Capital Management in May 2024.

Customer segmentation spans asset managers and property owners (primary), construction companies, HVAC and solar suppliers, and geospatial analytics professionals. The company holds a 'Carbon Certified' credential and markets itself as ESG-compliant and net-zero-ready. At this stage there are no named customer logos, no disclosed revenue or ARR, and no follow-on funding rounds, indicating an early commercial phase where the platform metrics shown on the site appear to reflect cumulative impact across scanned portfolios rather than company revenue.

Name

RIISE

Legal name

RIISE

Website

https://riise.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

RIISE combines satellite imagery and AI to remotely scan commercial real estate portfolios and identify decarbonization retrofit opportunities. Its Sustainability OS platform fuses geospatial, building, energy, and financial data, serving asset managers, construction firms, and HVAC/solar suppliers globally via subscription.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Real Estate Sustainability Software

NAICS

Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services (54136), Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services (541360), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519), Environmental Consulting Services (541620)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Remote Sensing & Geospatial Vision (satellite/drone imagery) (HDAAAEAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Satellite Imagery & Remote Sensing Geospatial Platforms (BPAMANAM), GIS & Spatial Data Management Platforms (BPAMANAK), Real Estate ESG / Sustainability & Resilience Advisory (Decarbonization, Climate Risk) (BPAJANAI), Remote Sensing & Earth Observation Analytics (Satellite/UAV/LiDAR, Image Processing) (EUAHAKAD)

Keywords

• Real estate decarbonization
• Satellite building analysis
• ESG reporting platform
• Retrofit opportunity detection
• Portfolio sustainability management

Headquarters

HQ city

Dover

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Sustainability OS Platform: SaaS platform subscription model providing satellite-based building analysis, portfolio optimization, and ESG reporting for commercial real estate portfolios. Pricing appears quote-based for enterprise deployments with portfolio-scale scanning capabilities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

RIISE provides a SaaS Sustainability OS that uses satellite imagery and AI to remotely scan commercial real estate portfolios and entire cities, identifying retrofit opportunities (rooftop solar, HVAC replacement, LED lighting, envelope insulation). The platform fuses geospatial, building, energy, financial, compliance, and sustainability data into a single decision layer, then delivers ranked actions with quantified CAPEX, OPEX, and CO2 impact, plus investor-ready ESG reporting.

Product overview

RIISE offers a unified platform architecture centered on the RIISE Sustainability OS (the core product and decision layer), supplemented by four vertical-specific products: Asset Managers, Construction, HVAC & Solar, and Geospatial Analytics. The platform uses satellite technologies and AI to scan entire cities and portfolios, turning orbital data into actionable retrofit recommendations. The core OS fuses geospatial, building, energy, financial, compliance and quality-assurance data, while the vertical products apply this data to specific industry use cases ranging from portfolio ESG reporting to supplier lead generation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Average 12.4% OPEX reduction across mid-size commercial portfolios in 12-month cycle
• +5 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Watershed: Enterprise carbon accounting and climate platform used by large companies to measure, report, and reduce emissions. Overlaps with RIISE's ESG reporting and decarbonization analytics value proposition for real estate portfolios.
• Measurabl: Enterprise ESG and decarbonization platform for commercial real estate. Most directly comparable to RIISE's Asset Managers product, providing portfolio-level carbon accounting, ESG reporting, and benchmarking for CRE owners.
• Climate X: Climate risk analytics for real estate and infrastructure, using geospatial and climate modeling to assess physical and transition risk. Comparable to RIISE's geospatial/AI risk and ESG scoring capabilities.

Broad incumbents

• Maxar Technologies: Provider of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial analytics. Comparable on the satellite imagery and remote-sensing data layer that RIISE builds on, though at much larger scale.
• Planet Labs: Operator of one of the largest commercial earth-observation satellite constellations. Comparable as a satellite imagery and geospatial analytics platform that underpins building- and asset-level remote sensing use cases.
• JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) — JLL Spark / JLL Technologies: Global CRE services firm with growing proptech and sustainability technology offerings, including portfolio ESG advisory and energy data. A broad incumbent serving the same asset-manager buyer with overlapping decarbonization capabilities.
• CBRE — CBRE Investment Management / ESG Advisory: Largest global CRE services firm with extensive ESG advisory, building analytics, and sustainability reporting practices. Competes with RIISE for the same enterprise sustainability and decarbonization budget.

Emerging players

• SkyWatch: Satellite imagery distribution and geospatial data platform. Adjacent comparable in providing developer-friendly access to earth-observation data that could be used for building-scale analysis like RIISE's.
• Descartes Labs: Geospatial analytics platform applying AI to satellite imagery for industries including energy, agriculture, and sustainability. Comparable to RIISE's geospatial analytics module and AI-on-satellite-data stack.
• CarbonCure / Carbon Direct (carbon analytics adjacencies): Carbon advisory and analytics firms focused on decarbonization measurement and project execution. Comparable as adjacent services helping real estate and infrastructure owners quantify and act on emissions, partially overlapping RIISE's Construction and ESG offerings.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/riise-ai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 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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