Quantis

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.

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

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)

Keywords

• Sustainability consulting
• Environmental impact assessment
• Life cycle assessment
• Carbon footprint measurement
• Climate strategy advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Renens

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. 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.
2. 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

Core 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

Named customers11 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2024WBCSD 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)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022In 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)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch 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)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerQuantis integrated the LCA research team of EMPA, strengthening scientific capabilities and maintaining network of visionary LCA scientists.
• EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerQuantis 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) ConsortiumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounded 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)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides 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 ConsortiumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndustry-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)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrings 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)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounded 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)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFirst 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 ClimateminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPre-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)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerQuantis 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 PlanetminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInitiative 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

Emerging 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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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles22 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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