BWI digitizes watersheds

BWI, which stands for Blue Water Intelligence, is a hydrology startup established in June 2022 in Toulouse, France. BWI specializes in near real-time estimates and forecasts of continental surface water flows, levels, and volumes all around the globe. BWI’s 3-word pitch is ‘BWI Digitizes Watersheds’. As of November 2024, BWI’s services are either available or in the process of becoming available in Europe (France), Africa (starting with Senegal), and South Asia (India, Bangladesh, Nepal). Additionally, BWI is continuously expanding its services to new geographical areas, all while improving its performance in zones already covered by BWI.

River flow and water level forecasts is what BWI provides

Continental freshwater data & insights

3%

of the Earth’s water is fresh. Together, let’s take good care of this scarce and yet vital resource to ensure its availability for future generations!

A state-of-the-art approach to forecast continental water flow, water levels and water quality

BWI gathers in-situ data, spaceborne observations, and machine learning to feed and empower hydrological and hydrodynamical models.

As a provider of online subscription-based services, BWI aims to provide scalable – across space and time – hydrological data to address climate change-induced water stress.

Help governments and companies adapt to climate change

Improvements in the forecasting of water resource availability, water quality, flood forecasts, water management, and drought forecasts both at local and regional scales will help public authorities and businesses build climate resilience and contribute to enabling scientists to better understand the water cycle.

At BWI, we also want to accelerate the transition to a low carbon society by by supporting low-carbon industries, such as hydropower electricity generation or inland water transportation.

Hydrological Virtual Stations to help our clients digitize river basins

Public authorities & institutions

Predict water hazards and provide water-related monitoring (quality, streamflow, levels, volumes)

BWI developed a flood and drought early warning system for risk managers, municipalities, basin management authorities, and international finance institutions. Accurate flood forecasts simplify disaster preparedness and response. BWI also provides forecasting water quality monitoring solutions.
Science and risk portfolio managers

Data on water levels, updated daily, from a low-orbit hydrological constellation of nanosatellites

BWI is working on making the SMASH concept (Small Altimetry Satellites for Hydrology), born at research center LEGOS and designed at CNES (Phase A completed), a reality to cover the globe with continental surface water level measurement points updated daily. 30.000 comparable inland water height data points updated daily would be tremendous material for scientists, NGOs, governments, and basin authorities, as well as for global corporations such as insurance companies and various industries.
Run-of-river hydropower operators and energy aggregators

Forecast river discharge and water levels accurately

BWI enables run-of-river hydropower operators to increase revenues by making possible the integration of riverflow predictions in their business processes. BWI is capable of accurately predicting future river discharge and deliver this valuable hydrological data to hydropower operators and energy traders through an API.

The people who form the Blue team

Philippe Gautier (France), Eng.

Chairman of the Board

Jeremy Fain (France), M.Sc.

Chief Executive Officer

Amandine Delom (France), M.A.

Communications Manager

Morgane Carra (France), B.A.

Human Resources Business Partner

Piotr Stępnicki (Poland), M.Sc.

Chief Technology Officer – Computer Vision specialist

Olivier Chazal (France), M.Sc.

Head of Programs – Environment and Energy specialist

Aurélien Bricier (France), Eng.

Senior Product Owner – Image Processing specialist

Annie Puchot (France), Eng.

Space Systems Engineer – Satellite Operations specialist

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Pascal Cauquil (France), Eng.

Ground Segment Engineer – Space Missions specialist

Anil Kumar Khanal (Nepal), Ph.D.

Hydrologist – High Mountains Remote Sensing specialist

Benoît Miltin (France), M.A.

Sales Manager – Client experience specialist

Mohamad Hamze

Mohamad Hamze (Lebanon), Ph.D.

Product Owner – Agriculture & Irrigation Remote Sensing specialist

Sundara BWI

Sundara Nataraja Amancharla (India), B.Sc.

Senior Software Engineer & DevOps – Computer Vision specialist

Audrey Gabbay (France), Eng.

Software Engineer – Computer Vision specialist

Mathieu Arthaud (France), Eng.

Software Engineer – GIS specialist

Sasha Keskin (France), M.Sc.

Software Engineer – Full-stack developer

Alexandre Vilardell (France), M.Sc.

Software Engineer – Image Processing specialist

Mouad Khaznaoui (Morocco), Eng.

Software Engineer – Data scientist

Syedur Aftab (Bangladesh), MBA

Bangladesh Country Director

Md. Mejbah Uddin (Bangladesh), Eng.

Bangladesh Deputy Country Director

Clément Xanxo (France), B.Sc.

Public Sector Business Development Representative

Khairul Alam (Bangladesh), Eng.

Bangladesh Projects Manager

Thibault Plouviez (France), B.Sc.

Junior DevOps & SysAdmin

Lucas Consigny (France), Eng.

Junior DevOps

Didier Alary (France), Eng.

Space Systems Advisor

Henri Jacquet-Francillon (France), Eng.

Hydropower Advisor

François Helloco (France), Ph.D.

Weather and Climate Science Advisor

+ 10 open full-time positions in Toulouse and in Paris

+ 10 open full-time positions in Toulouse and in Paris

Feeling like joining us? 

Apply to BWI

See our career page, and drop us a line with your LinkedIn profile URL.

Careers at BWI

Our reference shareholder, Hemeria, holds a minority (<20%) stake in BWI:

BWI is a proud resident of a startup accelerator named DISTRICT:

BWI is happily incubated by ESA BIC Sud France:

BWI is a proud member of the SCALE climate initiative by Aerospace Valley:

BWI technical partners

How about we get in touch? 

Talk to us

Whether you are a talent passionate about fresh water monitoring and looking for a new challenge (send us your résumé!), a journalist covering news on climate resilience solutions (we tell a story of hope with passion), an impact/climate tech/infrastructure/SaaS venture fund willing to invest in a more sustainable future (in crisis lies an opportunity always), a potential client (looking to climate proof your assets by digitizing your basins of interest), or a future partner, feel free to drop us a line. We will get back to you shortly!

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