Bwi

Blue Water Intelligence (BWI) — Satellite-derived 'virtual station' hydrological panel: near real-time river discharge and water-level series at arbitrary river points (no physical gauge needed), 15-day discharge forecasts, water-level forecasts, flow duration curves, hydropower production forecasts, and up to 30 years of historical discharge — sold as a per-station monthly subscription with API delivery and SMS/voice/email flood alerts.. Niche but defensible: 36-employee Seed-stage Paris company ($2.2M raised) selling gauge-free river discharge at €88-€870 per station-month across three tier…

Bwi offers (Alternative, Geospatial, Fundamental, ESG) — est. hundreds of millions of station-day records: each virtual station yields near real-time discharge (sub-daily) + 15-day forecast ensembles + 30 years of historical backfill, i.e. ~10k-20k time-stamped values per station-year; across a global HydroSHEDS-derived catalogue of candidate stations the modelled archive is billions of values, with the licensable slice bounded by the number of stations a client licenses..

Run-of-river hydropower generation forecasting and energy trading/hedging; flood early warning for utilities, insurers and civil protection; drought and low-flow monitoring for water abstraction permits; reservoir and intake operations; river-transport (low-water navigation) planning; calibration/assimilation of hydrological and land-surface models; training data for streamflow prediction and gauge-free rainfall-runoff models; ESG/water-risk scoring for asset portfolios.

The data is with 30 years of history.

Coverage spans Europe, US, Japan; Application Software, Electric Utilities; alternative, geospatial, fundamental, ESG; equities, commodities.