Quantis
Quantis is a Switzerland-based environmental sustainability consultancy, founded in 2006 and part of BCG since 2022, that delivers science-based impact assessment, strategy and digital solutions to enterprise clients across cosmetics, food, fashion, chemicals, energy, finance and pharma.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2006
- HeadquartersRenens, Switzerland
- Headcount251–500
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
What Quantis does
Quantis is a Switzerland-based environmental sustainability consulting firm founded in 2006 by scientists from EPFL, CIRAIG (Polytechnique Montréal) and EMPA, headquartered in Renens near Lausanne. The firm delivers science-based environmental impact assessment, strategy and digital solutions to enterprise clients across more than eleven verticals including cosmetics and personal care, food and beverage, fashion and sporting goods, chemicals, energy, financial services, pharmaceuticals, technology, industrial goods, travel and tourism, and government. Core services span Impact Assessment (carbon footprint, nature assessment, LCA and LCA-at-Scale), Environmental Risk Management, Mitigation/Restoration/Adaptation Strategies, Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Product Design, Communications and Engagement, and Data and Digital Solutions — anchored by proprietary frameworks including the planetary boundaries methodology and LCA-at-Scale capabilities. The technology stack includes standalone digital products eQosphere (emission factor platform), eQopack (packaging footprint) and SPICE Tool (cosmetics packaging), alongside industry databases WALDB (apparel/footwear) and WFLDB (agri-food) that Quantis founded and maintains as pre-competitive consortia.
Quantis generates revenue primarily through professional services engagements: enterprise sustainability consulting (project-based and retainer) plus consortium-building and management fees for the pre-competitive industry initiatives it convenes. Pricing is quote-driven, varies by engagement complexity, and is not publicly disclosed. The go-to-market is sales-led enterprise field sales, with direct engagement of corporate leadership and operational teams across industries. Distribution is materially reinforced by the firm's 2022 integration into Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a wholly-owned subsidiary, which provides privileged access to BCG's global enterprise client base and cross-sell into Fortune 500 sustainability mandates. The firm operates 6 offices across Switzerland (Renens, Zürich), France (Paris), Germany (Berlin), Italy (Milan) and the United States (Boston), employs 300+ specialists (environmental scientists, engineers, strategists and communicators), and has completed over 10,000 projects since inception under the leadership of Chair Patrick Dupoux (Senior Partner at BCG) and Global Lead Allon Zeitoun.
Quantis firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Quantis
- Legal name
- Quantis
- Website
- https://quantis.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2006
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 251–500 employees
- Short description
- Quantis is a Switzerland-based environmental sustainability consultancy, founded in 2006 and part of BCG since 2022, that delivers science-based impact assessment, strategy and digital solutions to enterprise clients across cosmetics, food, fashion, chemicals, energy, finance and pharma.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Quantis industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Sustainability Consulting
- NAICS
- Environmental Consulting Services (541620), Environmental Consulting Services (54162), Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416)
- SIC
- Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Environmental Data Integration, ETL & Interoperability (APIs, Standards, Data Pipelines) (EUAHAKAB)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Supply Chain (Scope 3) Emissions & Supplier Engagement Platforms (EUABAEAE), Environmental Reporting, Dashboards & Regulatory Submittals (Automated Reports, e-Reporting) (EUAHAKAL)
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Where Quantis is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Renens
- HQ country
- Switzerland
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices6 records
Markets served
Quantis business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Sustainability Consulting Services: Expert consulting engagements providing strategic advisory services to help organizations integrate sustainability into business strategy, operations, and decision-making. Services include environmental impact assessment, risk management, mitigation strategies, and implementation support. Engagements range from focused project work to long-term strategic partnerships.
- Consortium & Collaborative Initiatives: Pre-competitive industry initiatives and consortium building that bring together organizations across sectors to develop shared sustainability standards, methodologies, and metrics. Quantis serves as technical advisor and facilitator for these collaborative efforts.
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels3 records
Marketing channels7 records
Quantis product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Quantis provides environmental sustainability consulting to enterprise clients, delivering science-based assessment, strategy, and digital solutions. Core offerings span impact assessment (carbon footprint, nature assessment, LCA & LCA-at-Scale), environmental risk management, mitigation and adaptation strategies, supply chain transformation, sustainable product design, and consortium building. The firm combines deep environmental science expertise with practical business strategy, leveraging proprietary digital tools (eQosphere, eQopack, SPICE Tool) and industry databases (WALDB, WFLDB) developed through pre-competitive consortia.
Product overview
Quantis is a sustainability consulting firm and part of BCG that provides advisory services, not a unified software platform. The core offering consists of consulting services organized around: Impact Assessment (Carbon Footprint, Nature Assessment, LCA & LCA-at-Scale), Environmental Risk Management (Climate Risk & Adaptation, Nature Risk & Adaptation), Mitigation/Restoration Strategies (Climate Transition, Nature-Positive), Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Product Design, Communications & Engagement, and Data & Digital Solutions. The named digital products—eQosphere (emission factors platform), eQopack (packaging footprint tool), and SPICE Tool—are individual standalone tools rather than modules of a unified platform. Additionally, Quantis maintains industry databases (WALDB and WFLDB) developed through pre-competitive consortia. The majority of Quantis's work is service-based consulting rather than software product delivery.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- eQosphere
Quantifiable outcome
- Supported Rémy Cointreau in setting and validating SBT short- and long-term targets including FLAG emission and removal targets and Net Zero commitment
- +3 more outcomes
Companies that use Quantis
Customer profileNamed customers11 records
Segments10 records
Ideal customer profiles2 records
Quantis technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature5 records
Quantis partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)coreWBCSD collaboration with around 90 corporate members and technical partners to harmonize nature-related metrics for business. Quantis contributes to defining and standardizing metrics to drive corporate sustainability, with initiative culminating in Nature Action Portal planned for COP30 in November 2025.
- Boston Consulting Group (BCG)coreIn 2022, Quantis joined BCG, bringing together complementary strengths in sustainability science and enterprise strategy. Quantis contributes deep environmental expertise including climate, biodiversity, and supply chain footprinting grounded in rigorous data and life-cycle analysis. BCG brings leading capabilities in climate and sustainability strategy, uniting strategic vision with end-to-end execution to help organizations unlock value and build resilience.
- CIRAIG (International Reference Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services)coreResearch partnership with CIRAIG at Polytechnique Montréal, a center of expertise on sustainability and life cycle thinking. Early collaboration that contributed to Quantis's founding and scientific rigor.
- EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology)coreQuantis integrated the LCA research team of EMPA, strengthening scientific capabilities and maintaining network of visionary LCA scientists.
- EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne)coreQuantis originated from a lab at EPFL, where founders banded together to make life cycle assessment applicable for business, driving real meaningful change for industry by harnessing best available environmental data and metrics.
- World Apparel and Footwear Life Cycle Assessment Database (WALDB) ConsortiumcoreFounded by Quantis alongside a pre-competitive consortium of leading organizations and companies from the apparel and footwear sector to deliver robust data for environmental impact assessment and footprinting.
- World Food LCA Database (WFLDB)coreProvides players across the agri-food value chain with high-quality emissions factors and environmental footprint data including carbon, water, and land to help understand product impacts and bolster decision-making.
- EcoBeautyScore ConsortiumcoreIndustry-wide environmental impact assessment and scoring system for cosmetics products. Quantis supported as scientific advisor, contributing to development of cosmetics-specific methodology aligned with PEF.
- SPICE (Sustainable Packaging Initiative for Cosmetics)coreBrings together organizations in cosmetics industry to collectively shape the future of sustainable packaging. Quantis contributes expertise and tools including SPICE Tool.
- Pharma LCA Consortium (PCR)coreFounded in 2023 to accelerate transformation to net-zero health systems. Quantis serves as technical advisor, improving transparency and supporting assessment and reduction of environmental impact of medicines across lifecycle.
- Plastic Leakage Project (PLP)coreFirst science-based methodology to map, measure and forecast plastic leakage along the value chain. Provides sustainability managers with foundation to translate commitments into effective strategies.
- Fashion Leap for ClimateminorPre-competitive initiative and online learning platform developed with About You, Yoox Net-a-Porter and Zalando to drive climate education, engagement and action in fashion and footwear industry.
- European Boating Industry (EBI)minorQuantis partnered with EBI and 16 leading recreational boat manufacturers and 8 industry associations to develop first-ever environmental footprint methodology for recreational boats under 24 meters.
- Cosmetics Europe - Commit for Our PlanetminorInitiative aims to reduce the cosmetics sector's environmental footprint in Europe. Quantis provides expertise and support for sustainability initiatives.
Scale indicators5 records
Recent moves7 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Quantis competitors and assessment
Company assessmentEmerging players
- Persefoni: Persefoni is a climate management and accounting platform offering enterprise-grade GHG measurement and decarbonization tooling; it is an indirect competitor to Quantis's consulting-led emissions work, particularly in financial services.
- Watershed: Watershed is an enterprise carbon accounting and climate platform that delivers automated Scope 1–3 measurement and audit-ready disclosures, competing with Quantis's footprinting practice from a software-led model aimed at large enterprise customers.
- Greenly: Greenly is a carbon accounting and sustainability SaaS-plus-advisory platform targeting mid-market enterprises with automated footprinting and CSRD reporting—comparable to Quantis's eQosphere offering and Scope 3 work but differentiated by SaaS-first delivery.
Direct peers
- EcoAct (an Accenture company): EcoAct is a Paris-based climate strategy and carbon consultancy now owned by Accenture; it provides carbon footprinting, SBTi target-setting, and climate transition advisory, directly comparable to Quantis's climate/nature practice and bundled inside a much larger global consulting platform.
- Anthesis Group: Anthesis is a global sustainability consultancy offering LCA, footprinting, ESG strategy, and digital tooling across consumer goods, food, and apparel—directly comparable to Quantis in service mix, vertical segmentation, and consortium-style industry programs.
- South Pole Group: South Pole is a Switzerland-based climate strategy and sustainability consultancy that helps companies set science-based targets, measure emissions, and develop decarbonization roadmaps—directly mirroring Quantis's enterprise sustainability advisory offering and competing for the same European enterprise clients.
Broad incumbents
- WSP Global: WSP is a global professional services firm with a sizable environment and climate advisory practice offering ESG strategy, climate risk, and decarbonization consulting that overlaps with Quantis's enterprise sustainability engagements across multiple industries.
- ERM (Environmental Resources Management): ERM is a large global environmental and sustainability consultancy offering ESG strategy, climate advisory, nature, and supply chain services at much greater scale than Quantis, competing for the same enterprise sustainability mandates but with a far broader service portfolio.
- Ramboll: Ramboll is a major engineering, design, and sustainability consultancy with a substantial climate and ESG advisory practice; it competes with Quantis on enterprise sustainability strategy and overlaps in life cycle and environmental impact assessment work.
- Sphera (Blackstone portfolio): Sphera provides ESG, EHS, and product stewardship software and data, including life cycle assessment and carbon management offerings—an incumbent in adjacent software categories that competes with Quantis on LCA-driven product footprinting work for large manufacturers.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
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Quantis leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles22 records
Quantis funding detail
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Frequently asked questions about Quantis
What does Quantis do?
Quantis provides environmental sustainability consulting to enterprise clients, delivering science-based assessment, strategy, and digital solutions. Core offerings span impact assessment (carbon footprint, nature assessment, LCA & LCA-at-Scale), environmental risk management, mitigation and adaptation strategies, supply chain transformation, sustainable product design, and consortium building. The firm combines deep environmental science expertise with practical business strategy, leveraging proprietary digital tools (eQosphere, eQopack, SPICE Tool) and industry databases (WALDB, WFLDB) developed through pre-competitive consortia.
Is Quantis a public or private company?
Quantis is a private company. It is classified as corporate owned and is currently operating.
When was Quantis founded?
Quantis was founded in 2006. It employs 251 to 500 people.
Where is Quantis based?
Quantis is headquartered in Renens, Switzerland, in the Europe region.
How does Quantis make money?
Two revenue lines are on record. Sustainability Consulting Services are the primary driver. The others are consortium & Collaborative Initiatives.
Who are Quantis's main competitors?
Emerging players on record are Persefoni, Watershed and Greenly. Direct peers are EcoAct (an Accenture company), Anthesis Group and South Pole Group. Broad incumbents are WSP Global, ERM (Environmental Resources Management), Ramboll and Sphera (Blackstone portfolio).
Does Quantis have an API?
No public API is recorded for Quantis.
What industry is Quantis in?
Quantis's product category is Sustainability Consulting. Its primary akta.pro industry code is EUAHAKAB, Environmental Data Integration, ETL & Interoperability (APIs, Standards, Data Pipelines), with a secondary code of EUABAEAE, Supply Chain (Scope 3) Emissions & Supplier Engagement Platforms. Its NAICS code is 541620 and its SIC code is 8731.