Persefoni AI

Persefoni AI

ESG carbon accounting and emissions data

Overview

Persefoni AI helps businesses manage and report their carbon footprint through an ESG technology platform. It converts company data into an accurate carbon footprint using a calculation engine that follows the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF). It covers all emission scopes (Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3) and includes a Carbon Activity Ledger, a detailed record of emissions to support climate disclosures and regulatory requirements. The platform scales with a company’s growth and can integrate with other ESG tools and services via partnerships with consulting, tech, and standard-setting firms, as well as tools like Novata. Revenue is likely subscription-based, charging for platform access and services. Persefoni’s goal is to help organizations achieve carbon neutrality and maintain transparent, compliant emissions reporting across their operations and portfolios.

About Persefoni AI

Simplify's Rating
Why Persefoni AI is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Consulting

Enterprise Software

Social Impact

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$187.2M

Headquarters

Tempe, Arizona

Founded

2020

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What believers are saying

  • Amazon Sustainability Exchange selection provides direct access to supplier ecosystem validation.
  • Diligent carbon customer acquisition expands TAM into enterprise governance and risk systems.
  • CSRD Sustainability Reporting launch at no cost accelerates EU enterprise adoption.
  • First Street partnership bundles physical climate risk data for SEC and CSRD compliance.

What critics are saying

  • Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce Net Zero Cloud displace standalone platform for enterprise customers.
  • CSRD enforcement in 2026 exposes Scope 3 estimation gaps versus actuals-based competitors.
  • Diligent acquisition integration triggers customer defection and reverses user growth momentum.

What makes Persefoni AI unique

  • AI-powered Analytics Agent enables natural language emissions queries for 500+ enterprise customers.
  • Unified Investments Positions Manager consolidates 40 templates into one for financial institutions.
  • OCR-powered document extraction automates unstructured data ingestion for Enterprise tier customers.

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Funding

Total Funding

$187.2M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

5 Rounds

Series C funding is usually for startups that are doing well and are looking for more money to fuel major growth, such as acquiring other companies, expanding into global markets, or launching new product lines. Investors typically include larger venture capital firms and private equity.
Series C Funding Comparison
Below Average

Industry standards

$50M
$40M
Figma
$50M
Medium
$62M
SeatGeek
$100M
Oura

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

0%
Persefoni
Apr 8th, 2026
Persefoni selected by Amazon as a featured emissions measurement and reporting solution on the Sustainability Exchange.

Persefoni selected by Amazon as a featured emissions measurement and reporting solution on the Sustainability Exchange. Persefoni AI Inc. is excited and honored to share that Persefoni has been selected by Amazon as a featured emissions measurement and reporting solution on the Amazon Sustainability Exchange, a curated resource hub designed to help organizations accelerate progress toward net-zero carbon emissions. The Amazon Sustainability Exchange provides companies of all sizes with access to practical, high-quality sustainability resources aligned with Amazon's science-based approach. Solutions featured on the platform are reviewed by Amazon's internal sustainability experts to ensure credibility, rigor, and real-world applicability. Persefoni has been included in the Exchange's Measurement focus area under Measurement Tools, recognizing its role in enabling organizations to accurately measure, manage, and report their carbon footprints. "This recognition from Amazon underscores the growing need for trusted, enterprise-grade carbon accounting solutions," shared Kentaro Kawamori, CEO & Co-founder at Persefoni. "As organizations face increasing pressure to quantify and reduce emissions, particularly across complex value chains, access to reliable, transparent data is foundational. We look forward to supporting Amazon and its broader ecosystem in advancing credible climate action." By featuring Persefoni on the Sustainability Exchange, Amazon is helping direct suppliers and partners toward solutions that can support standardized emissions measurement, reporting, and data sharing, key enablers of supply chain decarbonization. To explore the Amazon Sustainability Exchange and Persefoni's listing, you can visit here. Persefoni is also a proud member of The Climate Pledge, Amazon's initiative to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. This alignment reinforces a shared commitment to advancing transparent, science-based climate practices across industries. As climate disclosure requirements expand and supply chain expectations increase, platforms like Persefoni are becoming critical infrastructure for companies seeking to turn climate ambition into measurable progress. Stay Ahead with Sustainability Insights

Persefoni
Dec 18th, 2025
Persefoni 2025 Year in Review

Persefoni 2025 year in review. 2025 was a defining year for Persefoni. A year marked by resilience, AI innovation, and expansion into new horizons across sustainability, compliance, and risk management. It was also a milestone year. Persefoni marked five years since its founding, with its sixth anniversary just ahead. Over this journey, Persefoni AI Inc. has moved beyond proving what's possible to building what lasts: enterprise technology designed to deliver measurable, enduring value as sustainability, compliance, and risk become inseparable from core business operations. Across its platform, partnerships, and global customer base, Persefoni AI Inc. made meaningful progress toward its long-term vision: to build enterprise technology that delivers measurable and lasting customer value across sustainability, compliance, and risk. From major product advancements and strategic acquisitions to industry recognition and customer impact, 2025 laid the foundation for Persefoni's next chapter. Strengthening its platform and expanding its reach. One of the most significant milestones of the year was Persefoni's acquisition of Diligent's carbon accounting customer base, forming a strategic partnership that expands access to enterprise-grade sustainability technology within broader governance and compliance ecosystems. This move reflects a clear direction: sustainability data is no longer siloed; it is becoming a core input into enterprise governance, risk, and reporting. Persefoni AI Inc. also secured a $23 million Series C extension, reinforcing its ability to invest deeply in AI, automation, and product innovation to meet the growing demands of global enterprises. That momentum was mirrored in its expanding user community. In 2025, Persefoni Pro surpassed 8,000 users worldwide, spanning more than 100 countries and every major industry. To better support global teams, Persefoni AI Inc. expanded platform language support across English, Italian, German, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, French, and Japanese, making Persefoni more accessible and usable for organizations operating across regions and markets. Product innovation focused on real-world outcomes. In 2025, Persefoni's product roadmap was guided by a single principle: pragmatic innovation that improves accuracy, efficiency, and usability for customers. Advancing sustainability and climate reporting. A major highlight of the year was the launch of Persefoni Sustainability Reporting, available at no cost to all Advanced and Pro users. Introduced with native support for CSRD, this solution was designed as a guided, workflow-driven experience, helping organizations navigate complex disclosure requirements with greater clarity, consistency, and audit readiness. To further reduce reporting friction, Persefoni AI Inc. enhanced its GHG metrics reports for standards like CDP, ISSB, and SECR, enabling customers to generate aligned disclosures directly from platform data, without manual rework or fragmented workflows. In response to emerging U.S. climate regulation, Persefoni rolled out a climate risk reporting service to support California SB 261 compliance, delivered in partnership with First Street. Persefoni AI Inc. also delivered updated CA SB 253 / CA-CCDDA metrics reports, aligned with the latest CARB templates, allowing organizations to prepare California disclosures using regulator-aligned formats populated directly from their emissions data. Accelerating automation and AI. Automation remained a core focus of Persefoni's platform strategy in 2025, with continued expansion of AI-enabled workflows across data ingestion, validation, and reporting. This included OCR-powered document extraction capabilities available to Enterprise customers, enabling structured ingestion of unstructured inputs such as utility bills and invoices. These workflows reduce manual processing and improve consistency across high-volume datasets, helping teams move from raw documents to calculation-ready data more efficiently. Persefoni AI Inc. also advanced machine-learning - based anomaly detection to automatically surface potential data gaps, outliers, and structural issues within large datasets, supporting earlier issue identification and review. In parallel, the platform continued developing smart emission factor matching, using natural language processing to map customer-provided procurement and spend data to the most appropriate emissions factors. Together, these capabilities embed applied intelligence directly into core workflows, improving data reliability while maintaining transparency and human oversight. Deeper capabilities across the sustainability suite. Throughout the year, Persefoni broadened its platform depth with new Water and Waste dashboards, expanded facility-level tracking across Scope 3, and continued enhancements to Net Zero Navigator, delivering more precise scenario modeling and decarbonization planning. For financial institutions, the introduction of the Investments Positions Manager represented a major leap forward, simplifying financed emissions workflows by consolidating uploads, automating data quality scoring, and unlocking more actionable portfolio insights at scale. Customer impact across industries. In 2025, organizations across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, consumer goods, and technology (among others) used Persefoni to operationalize sustainability data and drive measurable outcomes. Customers such as Xerox, FM Conway, Pleo, Joe & The Juice, General Atlantic, and Aichi Financial Group used Persefoni to streamline emissions tracking, improve disclosure readiness, and integrate sustainability data into broader business decision-making. A highlight of its year (as always!) was Persefoni's Annual Customer Summit, where sustainability leaders came together in Scottsdale, Arizona, to share best practices, engage directly with its product teams, and preview what's ahead in 2026. The conversations reinforced a shared reality: sustainability data is becoming foundational to how organizations manage risk, performance, and long-term value. Industry recognition and leadership. Persefoni's momentum in 2025 was recognized across the industry, including: These honors reflect its focus on building technology that delivers real customer value, not just market buzz. Looking ahead to 2026. As Persefoni enters its next phase, its focus remains clear: deepen automation, strengthen intelligence, and continue reducing the operational burden of sustainability and compliance. With more advanced AI-driven ingestion and workflow automation, expanded sustainability and reporting capabilities, and continued investment in platform scale and reliability, Persefoni AI Inc. is building toward a future where sustainability data functions as a core enterprise system, not a standalone reporting tool. None of this progress would be possible without the trust of its customers around the world, and Persefoni AI Inc. is grateful to the thousands of teams that rely on Persefoni every day to support their sustainability, compliance, and risk efforts.

Persefoni
Oct 16th, 2025
Tackling the Complexity of Financed Emissions Data

Tackling the complexity of financed emissions data. Financial institutions are facing increasing expectations to measure and disclose financed emissions with accuracy and transparency. But the process is inherently complex: multiple asset classes, varying data quality requirements, and evolving regulatory frameworks make it difficult to manage financed emissions at scale. At the same time, stakeholders are demanding more clarity and consistency in how institutions report and act on their financed emissions. To meet this challenge, Persefoni AI Inc. is thrilled to introduce its Investments Positions Manager, a significant step forward in simplifying data ingestion, improving transparency, and enabling deeper insights for financial institutions worldwide. A unified approach to uploads. At the heart of this release is a single, unified upload template that supports business loans, corporate bonds, equity, and project finance across all data quality scores. By consolidating nearly 40 templates into one, the revamped module reduces friction in data ingestion and incorporates a refined error resolution process to make uploads more efficient. The platform also removes the need to pre-determine the right data quality score. Instead, it automatically applies the best and lowest applicable score based on the data provided, ensuring both accuracy and consistency. Data enrichment for accuracy and completeness. Where possible, Persefoni enriches listed instruments with financial and emissions data using its best available data model logic. This enhancement improves data completeness and reliability, giving financial institutions a stronger foundation for analysis and reporting. Greater transparency with revamped catalogs. Persefoni AI Inc. has also expanded the structure of the Financial Services data model through revamped catalogs for Entities, Investments, and Real Assets. These provide a clearer, more organized view of portfolios, strengthening reporting accuracy and streamlining the management of financed emissions data at every level. Analytics that drive action. Its investment analytics suite has been rebuilt to deliver more actionable insights. Customers can track high-level KPIs across investments, financing, and real assets, while also drilling into granular company, sector, and industry views. Comparative dashboards enable year-over-year and fund-level analysis, making it easier to spot trends, benchmark performance, and guide strategy. Built with customers in mind. Its Investments Positions Manager was shaped by feedback from financial institutions seeking greater efficiency, transparency, and insight. With these updates, Persefoni AI Inc. is equipping its customers to reduce complexity, strengthen disclosures, and make more informed investment decisions, all within a single streamlined workflow. This module is available now in Persefoni Advanced. Contact its team for a more in-depth walkthrough of this platform functionality.

FW.MEDIA
Jun 3rd, 2025
Atmen raises €5M for green certification

Atmen has raised €5 million to automate the green certification of industrial supply chains. As European industries aim to prove the sustainability of their products, there's a growing need for a certification system that can convert complex supply chains into compliant, traceable, and verifiable evidence. Atmen aims to provide this critical infrastructure, becoming the invisible backbone of industrial green certification, crucial for European industries facing stricter ESG regulations.

Silicon Canals
Apr 11th, 2025
Persefoni Pro Wins Innovation of the Year at the 2025 CleanTech Breakthrough Awards

Persefoni Pro wins Innovation of the Year at the 2025 CleanTech Breakthrough Awards.

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