Tracera

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Field	Value
Name	Tracera
Tagline	AI-powered platform automating sustainability data collection, verification, and auditing with finance-grade accuracy
Headquarters	New York, NY, United States
Founded	2022
Stage	Series A
Business Model	SaaS
Industry	Cleantech / Climatetech
Technology	AI / Machine Learning
Geography	North America
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Solo Founder
Funding Label	Series A
Total Disclosed	~$17.25M

Links

• Website: https://tracera.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tracera-ai

Summary and Signal

Tracera is a New York-based SaaS platform automating the collection, verification, and auditing of corporate sustainability data. The company positions itself as an enterprise data infrastructure layer for ESG reporting [Business Wire, April 2025].

Founded in 2022 by Patrick Obeid as ESG Flo, the company was a spinout from Bain & Company. It rebranded to Tracera as it expanded beyond its original ESG framing [Axios, October 2023].

Sustainability teams spend an average of 70% of their time collecting data rather than analyzing it. Tracera ingests PDFs, spreadsheets, and ERP feeds to produce audit-ready metrics [Bain & Company].

The product deploys in regulated sectors like healthcare, technology, real estate, and construction. Reference customer EnerSys uses it across 180 sites [Tracera, April 2025]. In April 2025, Tracera closed a $12M Series A led by Foundry. Total disclosed funding reached $17.25M, with prior backing from Tola Capital, Contour Venture Partners, Rho Ignition, and Bain & Company [Business Wire, April 2025].

Foundry partner Seth Levine joined the board alongside director Patrick Quinlan [Enterprise Wired, April 2025].

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by Business Wire, Axios, and the Tracera company site.

Taxonomy Snapshot

Axis	Value
Stage	Series A
Business Model	SaaS
Industry / Vertical	Cleantech / Climatetech, ESG data infrastructure
Technology Type	AI / Machine Learning
Geography	North America (HQ New York)
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Solo Founder (Patrick Obeid)
Funding	Series A, ~$17.25M total disclosed

Company Overview

Tracera began life inside Bain & Company. Patrick Obeid, a Bain consultant with roughly nine years at the firm, became the first graduate of Bain's Founder's Studio incubation program. The resulting company, then called ESG Flo, spun out in 2022 with the firm as both an early backer and a structural design partner [Bain & Company][Getting Ecological][LinkedIn].

Bain's sustainability practice encountered data-plumbing problems at client sites, where carbon, waste, water, and safety data lived across thousands of unstructured PDFs and disconnected ERP modules.

The company raised a $5.25M seed round in October 2023 [Axios, October 2023]. Between late 2023 and early 2025, the company rebranded from ESG Flo to Tracera, signaling broader positioning around traceable, auditable enterprise data [Crunchbase].

In April 2025, Tracera announced a $12M Series A led by Foundry. Seth Levine joined the board. Existing investors participated, including Tola Capital, Contour Venture Partners, Rho Ignition, and Bain & Company [Business Wire, April 2025][Enterprise Wired, April 2025].

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by Business Wire, Axios, Bain & Company, and Crunchbase.

The Product and the Stack

Tracera's product is an AI-powered data infrastructure layer for corporate sustainability. It converts source documents into audit-ready metrics by ingesting data from PDFs, spreadsheets, and ERP systems [Tracera, April 2025].

The April 2025 funding announcement describes the system as offering "finance-grade accuracy and traceability," distinguishing it from carbon-accounting tools that emphasize estimation models [Business Wire, April 2025].

Vertical packaging supports the product story. Tracera publishes industry pages for healthcare, technology, real estate, and construction, describing collection of emissions, waste, water, and health-and-safety metrics with site-level comparability [Tracera, April 2025].

EnerSys, the industrial battery manufacturer, uses Tracera to consolidate data across 180 global sites [Tracera]. An October 2025 product update references emissions-allocation features, indicating development on supply-chain apportionment use cases [Tracera].

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Product claims consistent across company site and Business Wire; technical architecture not independently documented.

Market Research and Opportunity

The market is driven by regulated sustainability disclosure. The EU's CSRD began phased application in fiscal year 2024 reporting. In the United States, the SEC's climate disclosure rule and California's SB 253 and SB 261 create overlapping obligations, pushing Fortune 1000 teams to upgrade data infrastructure [Tracera].

Bain's research estimates sustainability teams spend 70% of time collecting data [Bain & Company]. Relevant adjacent markets include financial close software like Workiva and BlackLine, GRC platforms, and carbon accounting (Persefoni, Watershed, Sweep, and Gravity).

Claim	Value
Sustainability team time spent on data collection	~70%
Tracera Series A	$12M (April 2025)
Tracera total disclosed funding	~$17.25M

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Regulatory drivers and labor-cost statistic well-sourced; no third-party TAM figure captured.

The Competitive Field

Tracera positions below dashboards and disclosure tools in carbon accounting, betting that auditability of source data becomes key as regulators mandate reporting.

Company	Positioning	Stage / Funding
Tracera	AI data infrastructure for audit-ready sustainability metrics	Series A, ~$17.25M
Persefoni	Carbon accounting and climate disclosure platform	Late-stage, >$150M raised
Watershed	Enterprise climate platform with measurement, reduction, and disclosure	Late-stage, valued >$1B
Sweep	Carbon and ESG data management for enterprises and supply chains	Growth-stage
Gravity	Climate data platform for emissions and operations	Early-stage

Competitors sort into three groups: dashboard incumbents, supply-chain/operations challengers, and embedded threats from ERP vendors like SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, and Workiva.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Competitor names confirmed; funding figures widely reported but not re-verified.

Opportunity

Tracera could sit underneath Fortune 1000 sustainability tools. Regulatory direction favors infrastructure over dashboards [Business Wire, April 2025].

Growth scenarios

Scenario	What happens	Catalyst
Bain channel becomes a repeatable enterprise pipeline	Tracera embedded in Bain engagements	Bain Founder's Studio and Series A participation
Audit-firm standard for CSRD assurance	Big Four recommends Tracera for assurance	CSRD exposes gaps in estimation tools
Vertical-template land-and-expand	Deepens in healthcare, real estate, construction	October 2025 emissions allocation update

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Scenario inputs from Business Wire, Tracera, Bain, Axios.

Sources

1. [Tracera, April 2025] Tracera home | https://tracera.com/
2. [Tracera, April 2025] About Tracera | https://tracera.com/about/
3. [Tracera, April 2025] Tracera Raises $12M Series A | https://tracera.com/series-a-announcement/
4. [Tracera] ESG Flo Raises $5.25M to Automate ESG Data Collection | https://tracera.com/ai-powered-esg-data-infrastructure-platform-raises-5-25m-to-automate-esg-data-gathering/
5. [Tracera] October 2025 Product Update | https://tracera.com/traceras-october-2025-product-update-transforming-sustainability-business-data-management/
6. [Tracera] Is sustainability the new finance? | https://tracera.com/is-sustainability-the-new-finance/
7. [Business Wire, April 2025] Tracera Raises $12M Series A to Scale AI-Powered Corporate Sustainability Platform | https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250408342399/en/Tracera-Raises-$12M-Series-A-to-Scale-AI-Powered-Corporate-Sustainability-Platform
8. [Axios, October 2023] Exclusive: Bain spinout ESG Flo raises $5.25M to automate data gathering | https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2023/10/31/esg-flo-5-million-bain-esg-data-reporting
9. [Crunchbase] Tracera company profile | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/esg-flo
10. [Crunchbase] Patrick Obeid person profile | https://www.crunchbase.com/person/patrick-obeid
11. [PitchBook] Tracera company profile | https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/522864-01
12. [Bain & Company] Patrick Obeid's Journey from Bain Consultant to ESG CEO | https://www.bain.com/insights/whiteboard-innovators-patrick-obeid/
13. [Getting Ecological] Interview with Patrick Obeid | https://gettingecological.com/interviews/interview-with-patrick-obeid-the-importance-of-accurate-auditable-esg-data/
14. [Craft.co] ESG Flo executives | https://craft.co/esg-flo/executives
15. [LinkedIn] Tracera company page | https://www.linkedin.com/company/tracera-ai
16. [HumAIn Podcast] Patrick Obeid: How AI Simplifies ESG Reporting | https://www.humainpodcast.com/episode/patrick-obeid-how-ai-simplifies-esg-reporting-and-data-infrastructure-w-esg-flo/
17. [Bloomberg] Patrick Obeid profile | https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/25037695