Company Profile · Climate & Proptech
Scaler.
The ESG data platform built for real estate - by real estate people. It turns fragmented sustainability data into audit-ready reports and decarbonization roadmaps that actually get built.
The ESG data platform built for real estate - by real estate people. It turns fragmented sustainability data into audit-ready reports and decarbonization roadmaps that actually get built.
Real estate owns roughly a third of the world's carbon emissions, and yet the industry has long run its sustainability efforts on spreadsheets nobody fully trusts. Scaler was founded in 2021 to fix that plumbing problem. Its software collects building-level energy, water, gas and on-site generation data, validates it, and turns it into audit-ready reports and decarbonization roadmaps that property teams can act on.
The pitch is deliberately unglamorous. Where other climate software leans on slogans, Scaler leans on traceability: every ESG data point is tracked from the meter it came from all the way to the final report, so an audit stops being a fire drill. "Investors are under pressure to decarbonise their portfolios," says CEO Zlatan Menkovic, "but need data presented and analysed to make decisions."
That framing matters. Scaler treats compliance not as the finish line but as the starting point - the same dataset that satisfies a regulator becomes the map for where to spend retrofit capital. Customers using the platform have collectively planned around $1 billion in improvement and retrofit measures, and reported 100 million kilograms of CO2 saved in 2024 alone.
The company is built by people who lived the problem. Co-founder Luc van de Boom was an early employee at GRESB, the global ESG benchmark for real estate, and several team members are ex-GRESB insiders who wanted a more hands-on role moving the industry forward. Menkovic came from a product lead role at Uber. The result is software that speaks the industry's language rather than translating climate theory into it.
Online surveys, pre-built APIs and bulk import/export tools pull energy, water, gas and generation data into one place.
Automates gap analyses, estimates missing meter data and flags outliers so reporting isn't derailed by holes in the data.
Auto-reporting for GRESB, GRI, CSRD, SFDR, EU Taxonomy, TCFD, INREV and EPRA, plus retrofit modeling and BI exports.
Centralized monitoring, real-time alerts, CRREM analysis and net-zero pathway modeling down to meter level.
CRREM-aligned transition modeling flags stranding risk and shapes capex and opex plans for decades ahead.
Every data point tracked from source to report, making audits routine rather than resource-draining.
Each ESG framework wants the same data in a different shape. Scaler's core insight is to collect building-level data once and output it across every major standard - no duplicative work. The illustrative mix below reflects how a typical European institutional portfolio leans on the platform's report library.
Scaler serves the roles that carry ESG risk and reporting duty across a portfolio - roughly 30 customers managing over $350 billion in assets as of its Series A.
Named clients include a.s.r. real estate, Jamestown and consultancy Verdani Partners, alongside a roster of European institutional owners.
"Investors are under pressure to decarbonise their portfolios, but need data presented and analysed to make decisions."
"Scaler has enabled a.s.r. to develop effective decarbonisation roadmaps for all assets in their portfolios, aligning with capex and opex planning for the coming decades."
"We adopted Scaler globally for its environmental data management and analytics, including CRREM analysis and GRESB reporting support. We highly recommend Scaler for its robust performance."
Generic ESG platforms treat real estate as one vertical among many. Scaler was built the other way around - by ex-GRESB insiders and a product team that started with the meter, not the dashboard. Competitors like Deepki, Measurabl and EVORA's SIERA compete on the same ground, but Scaler's wedge is domain fluency plus end-to-end traceability.
Scaler is a B2B SaaS company. It sells subscription access to its platform to real estate investors, fund and asset managers, and sustainability consultants, typically priced by portfolio size and the reporting frameworks a client needs.
Its ecosystem strategy leans on integration rather than owning every data source. Partnerships with Rhino and iqbi pipe automated building-level utility data straight into Scaler, because in real estate no single platform owns the meter - and winning means playing well with others.
Zlatan Menkovic and Luc van de Boom launch Scaler in New York and Amsterdam to fix real estate ESG data.
Early customers cut roughly 15 million kg of carbon output annually and automate GRESB reporting.
Plural leads a $10M round with Base10 participating, funding product expansion and growth into APAC.
The platform reports 100 million kg of CO2 saved and $1 billion in planned decarbonization measures.
Rhino and iqbi partnerships automate utility data as clients like Jamestown and Verdani scale usage.
Base10 Partners participated. Roughly $12.75M raised in total to date. Proceeds fund product expansion and growth into the APAC region.
Product demos and interviews with the Scaler team are shared through the company's website and LinkedIn page - see scalerglobal.com and /company/scaler-global for the latest walkthroughs.