
Bend is a climate assessment platform that automates carbon accounting for startups and mid-market businesses, enabling them to track and reduce CO2e emissions through a comprehensive emissions data API. The platform enriches spend and business activity data with accurate emissions estimates, facilitating industry-standard scope 3 reporting. Bend differentiates itself by providing real-time climate intelligence embedded in financial software, leveraging advanced data aggregation and machine learning techniques. With a focus on security and compliance, Bend is backed by Y Combinator and aims to help companies meet climate disclosure requirements while identifying high ROI decarbonization opportunities.

Bend is a climate assessment platform that automates carbon accounting for startups and mid-market businesses, enabling them to track and reduce CO2e emissions through a comprehensive emissions data API. The platform enriches spend and business activity data with accurate emissions estimates, facilitating industry-standard scope 3 reporting. Bend differentiates itself by providing real-time climate intelligence embedded in financial software, leveraging advanced data aggregation and machine learning techniques. With a focus on security and compliance, Bend is backed by Y Combinator and aims to help companies meet climate disclosure requirements while identifying high ROI decarbonization opportunities.
What they do: Carbon accounting platform and emissions data API for startups and mid-market businesses
Product focus: Enriches spend and transaction data with merchant-, product-, and category-level CO2e estimates for Scope 3 reporting
HQ & size: New York; ~12 employees
Funding signal: Seed-stage funding; reported ~$2.5M seed (May 2023) and total funding around $3.0M
Security/compliance: SOC 2 certified
Supply-chain decarbonization and corporate carbon accounting (Scope 1/2/3), especially spend- and transaction-based emissions estimation.
Climate tech / Carbon accounting
2500000.00
Reported seed round announced May 3, 2023.
“Backed by Y Combinator”