The LSE Directory / Alternative data
RS Metrics is a geospatial analytics company, headquartered at 700 Canal Street in Stamford, Connecticut, that converts satellite and aerial imagery into environmental, climate and physical risk data tied to individual physical assets rather than whole companies. Its foundation is AssetTracker, a proprietary global database that maps factories, warehouses and other facilities to their corporate owners; that mapping underpins ESGSignals, the company's flagship platform, which the company describes as offering more than 100 (and, per its own materials, expanding toward roughly 250) environmental, climate and physical risk metrics per asset, drawn from over 50 geospatial data sources and delivered by SaaS dashboard, API, or through the Google Cloud Platform marketplace. The company positions ESGSignals as an alternative to ESG scores built on corporate self-disclosure: because the underlying measurements come from independently observed imagery rather than company reporting, RS Metrics markets the data as objective and verifiable, filling gaps left by inconsistent or incomplete sustainability disclosures. It sells into four customer segments it names explicitly: corporates seeking investor-grade ESG benchmarking, asset managers needing measurable impact data for regulatory regimes such as SFDR, ratings and index providers wanting independent inputs to supplement or check self-reported data, and academic researchers. Before pivoting toward ESG, the company built a line of alternative-data products for investors, including TrafficSignals (retail parking lot vehicle counts, its original 2010 product), FactorySignals (global factory activity), MetalSignals (base metal and mining production signals) and EVTracker (electric vehicle manufacturer output), several of which are still referenced in its current product literature as historical or legacy offerings. RS Metrics was founded in 2010 (an independent geospatial industry directory lists an incorporation date of 2009, a minor discrepancy from the company's own 2010 founding narrative). Maneesh Sagar, a Columbia Business School MBA and co-founder of NeuVis (acquired by IBM Rational), serves as Chairman and CEO; other named leaders include COO and Chief Data Scientist Rashmi Bomiriya, Global Head of Operations Nilosha Pereira, and Magnus Billing, former CEO of Nasdaq Nordic and the Swedish pension fund Alecta, who leads RS Metrics Europe. The company's senior advisory bench includes Robert Herz, a former chairman of the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Crunchbase-sourced aggregator data (not independently confirmed on this pass) puts total funding raised at approximately 27.2 million dollars from investors including TH Lee Putnam Ventures, Iroquois Capital Group and Thynk Ventures. In 2021, IDC named RS Metrics an "IDC Innovator" in its Location and Geospatial Data report, a designation reserved for vendors under 100 million dollars in revenue judged to have a distinctive technology approach. RS Metrics lists Google Cloud and Cognizant as technology and delivery partners, and cites work with organizations including the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and IBAT (Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool) in its public materials. The company describes an ongoing shift in its own positioning, framing ESGSignals as "ESG 3.0: Objective Direct Measurement" in its 2025 messaging, and had announced European expansion leadership (with Billing's appointment) as part of that push.
