Outbreak Labs

What Outbreak Labs does

Outbreak Labs (legal entity: Food Systems Research Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 15531105) is a London-headquartered, early-stage B2B enterprise SaaS company that builds AI and machine-learning-powered epidemiological intelligence platforms for forecasting pest and disease outbreaks in agriculture, forestry, and ecosystems. Its stack fuses proprietary epidemiological models — built on four standardised transmission mechanisms covering wind, trade, human movement, and other spread vectors — with multimodal data sources including satellite imagery (Sentinel, Landsat, SAR, commercial), drone imagery, IoT and environmental sensors, field diagnostics, agronomic intelligence, and market data. The company delivers three named products: ForeSight, an outbreak engine contextualising biological risk against environmental and market signals to assess supply-chain impact; FieldSense, a unified risk detection system using automated anomaly detection over multi-source imagery and sensor feeds; and PathFinder, a scenario simulation and decision-support tool for evaluating interventions under uncertainty.

The company sells to three enterprise verticals — agribusiness, insurance, and government/NGOs — under a subscription/recurring SaaS commercial model with quote-based pricing (no public tariffs disclosed). Go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales targeting organisations on the front lines of pest and disease management; supporting marketing is content-driven via whitepapers, blogs, and thought-leadership publications such as 'Sowing Resilience'. Geographic coverage is claimed across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas via satellite (99% land coverage). The team is described as small and early-stage, with at least one open Senior Machine Learning Scientist hire in a hybrid London office, and the company is GDPR-compliant. No funding rounds, revenue figures, named customers, patents, or independent model benchmarks are disclosed in the source material.

Name

Outbreak Labs

Legal name

Food Systems Research Limited

Website

https://outbreaklabs.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Outbreak Labs is a London-based early-stage SaaS company that builds AI-powered epidemiological forecasting platforms (ForeSight, FieldSense, PathFinder) to predict and manage pest and disease outbreaks for agribusinesses, insurers, and government agencies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Intelligence Software

NAICS

Support Activities for Crop Production (11511)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Pest/Disease/Weed Detection & Forecasting Analytics (AFABAMAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Crop Scouting & Pest/Disease Detection (Digital Scouting, Computer Vision, Alerts) (AFAGALAI)

Keywords

• Pest disease forecasting
• Agricultural risk intelligence
• Epidemiological modeling software
• Satellite crop monitoring
• Agricultural insurance analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscriptions: Enterprise intelligence platforms (ForeSight, FieldSense, PathFinder) delivered as software-as-a-service to agribusinesses, insurers, and government agencies.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Outbreak Labs develops and sells three enterprise SaaS intelligence platforms — ForeSight, FieldSense, and PathFinder — that use AI, proprietary epidemiological models, and satellite/IoT data to forecast pest and disease emergence and spread, detect emerging risk, and simulate decision outcomes for agriculture. Customers include agribusinesses, insurance companies, and government/NGO agencies responsible for protecting crop systems and global food security.

Product overview

Outbreak Labs offers a three-product platform for pest and disease intelligence: ForeSight (outbreak engine for supply chain impact analysis), FieldSense (unified risk detection from multi-source imagery and sensors), and PathFinder (scenario simulation for decision-making under uncertainty). Together, the products cover the full pest and disease lifecycle from field-level data collection and real-time monitoring through market-standard forecasting to decision tools that quantify intervention impact.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ForeSight: Proprietary outbreak engine providing clarity into how pests and diseases emerge, spread, and impact supply chains through contextualisation of biological risk with agronomic, environmental, and market intelligence.
• FieldSense
• PathFinder

Products and services

• ForeSight Proprietary outbreak engine that delivers clarity into how pests and diseases emerge, spread, and impact supply chains through the contextualization of biological risk with agronomic, environmental, and market intelligence. Built for agribusinesses, insurers, and government/NGO organizations responsible for protecting agricultural production and global food security.
• FieldSense Unified risk detection system that brings together every major signal, drone imagery, satellite analytics, and automated anomaly detection into a single platform showing exactly where pest and disease risk is emerging and why. Targeted at agribusinesses, insurers, and government/NGO clients needing real-time early-warning intelligence.
• PathFinder Decision-support simulation tool that cuts through agricultural uncertainty by modeling how the future unfolds under different choices, strategies, and conditions in the face of shifting weather, new pest incursions, evolving diseases, and resource constraints. Designed for organizations making high-stakes resource allocation, investment, and procurement decisions.

Quantifiable outcome

• 40% of global crops lost to pests and diseases annually — their solutions aim to reduce this impact through early detection and intervention
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature6 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• DTN: Major provider of weather, climate, and agricultural commodity intelligence used by agribusiness, traders, and insurance. Comparable as a broad incumbent offering decision-grade environmental data and forecasts, though pest/disease forecasting is one of many product lines.
• Climate Corporation (Bayer): Digital agriculture platform owned by Bayer offering FieldView, which integrates field data, satellite imagery, and analytics for farm decision-making. Comparable as a broad incumbent in agricultural intelligence, but its pest/disease capabilities are part of a much wider agronomic suite.
• Syngenta Cropwise: Digital agriculture platform from Syngenta providing crop monitoring, agronomic recommendations, and yield forecasting to growers and advisors. Comparable as a broad incumbent offering integrated intelligence services to the crop protection value chain, though with much wider scope than pest/disease forecasting alone.
• IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite: IBM's AI-powered environmental and agricultural risk platform combining geospatial data, weather, and analytics. Comparable as a broad incumbent offering overlapping capabilities in environmental risk and agricultural monitoring for enterprise and government.

Direct peers

• CropX: Precision agriculture platform integrating soil sensors, satellite imagery, and AI analytics to optimize irrigation, fertilizer, and crop protection. Highly comparable as a data-and-analytics SaaS company selling actionable agronomic intelligence to enterprises.
• Taranis: AI-powered aerial imagery and crop intelligence platform that detects pests, diseases, and nutrient issues across millions of acres. Directly comparable as a precision agriculture vendor combining satellite, drone, and computer vision analytics for agribusiness customers.
• aWhere: Provider of agricultural intelligence, weather data, and analytics used by agribusiness, development organizations, and governments for crop monitoring. Comparable as an enterprise SaaS company delivering predictive agricultural risk analytics.
• Farmers Edge: Digital agronomy platform combining field sensors, satellite imagery, and AI-powered analytics for crop monitoring and yield prediction. Comparable as an enterprise-facing precision agriculture SaaS provider with a similar intelligence-platform model.
• Resson: Computer vision and predictive analytics company using aerial imagery and field sensors to detect crop stress, pests, and diseases. Directly comparable in applying ML to imagery for early detection of agricultural threats.

Emerging players

• Plantix: AI-driven crop disease and pest diagnosis app using computer vision on smartphone images. Comparable in pest/disease detection via ML but primarily B2C/B2B-farmer oriented rather than enterprise/government intelligence platforms.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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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