# Vassar Labs

> Vassar Labs builds geospatial AI and decision-support platforms for water resources, agriculture, flood forecasting and urban governance. Its software combines sensor readings, satellite imagery, weather forecasts and administrative records for governments, utilities and enterprises.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** Hyderabad, India
- **Founders:** Laxmiprasad Putta (Founder and Managing Director), Nikhilesh Kumar (Co-founder and CEO - Climate Tech), Chandrakiran Mallarapu (Co-founder)
- **Products:** aquaWISE, aquaCITY, aquaFLOOD, fieldWISE, metWISE
- **Notable:** Selected as one of ten startups for the first Google Launchpad Accelerator India cohort in 2018., Third place and US$15,000 in the final phase of the US Department of Energy H2Os Prize in 2023., Named in the World Bank’s 2020 overview of water innovations.

## Products & services

- **aquaWISE** — Unified water-resource information and management platform combining geospatial data, sensors, remote sensing and models; offered as SaaS or on customer infrastructure.
- **aquaCITY** — Urban water-network digital twin with water accounting, leak alerts, billing, connection management and consumer grievance workflows.
- **aquaFLOOD** — Weather, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling for flood forecasts, inundation maps, scenarios and warning delivery.
- **fieldWISE** — Agricultural data and decision support, including crop monitoring, pest alerts, irrigation and fertilizer advice, and field data collection.
- **metWISE** — Multi-hazard weather and disaster intelligence framework; metMIND supports extraction of information from multilingual disaster reports and advisories.
- **cityWISE** — Urban governance platform combining GIS, satellite imagery and administrative records for land-use monitoring and municipal workflows.
- **LUIS** — Land Use Intelligence System for detecting changes and encroachment using satellite and drone imagery.
- **aquaDRROP** — River and reservoir operations simulation and decision support.
- **aquaIRRIGATION** — Irrigation decision support combining sensors, remote sensing and crop models.
- **aquaMIND** — Generative AI copilot for water-management information and questions.
- **Systems integration and deployment** — Customer-specific configuration, data integration, implementation, training and support for government and enterprise platforms.

## Achievements

- Selected as one of ten startups for the first Google Launchpad Accelerator India cohort in 2018.
- Third place and US$15,000 in the final phase of the US Department of Energy H2Os Prize in 2023.
- Named in the World Bank’s 2020 overview of water innovations.
- A July 2026 company submission published by NITI Aayog reports 600,000+ municipal service requests and more than two million property tax receipts handled through cityWISE deployments.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — NITI Aayog’s Frontier Tech repository published a metWISE submission reporting approximately three million farmers reached with climate alerts. The repository explicitly says submissions are not independently validated or endorsed.
- **2026-07** — A Frontier Tech cityWISE submission reported deployments in three Indian states and 600,000+ municipal service requests processed.
- **2025-10** — Google described Vassar Labs’ planned integration of ALU and AMED agricultural model APIs into fieldWISE.

## Links

- Website: https://vassarlabs.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vassar-labs
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/vassar_labs
- GitHub: https://github.com/vassarlabs
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vassarlabs
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vassarlabs/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vassarlabs.climatetech

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Last updated: 2026-10-23