BreezoMeter vs Patsnap

Patsnap has a disclosed valuation of $1B, while BreezoMeter's valuation is not publicly available, making a direct size comparison difficult. Patsnap employs 500-1000 people.

Patsnap has raised more in total funding at $300M, compared to BreezoMeter's $21M — a gap of $279M. Combined, the two companies have completed 4 known funding rounds.

Patsnap leads with an Awaira Score of 80/100, while BreezoMeter sits at 42/100. That 38-point gap reflects real differences in funding, scale, and traction — it's not a vanity metric.

BreezoMeter was founded by Ran Korber in 2014. Patsnap was founded by Jeffrey Tiong in 2007. Visit each company's profile on Awaira for a full founder biography.

BreezoMeter: BreezoMeter provides AI-powered environmental data APIs covering air quality, pollen, weather, and wildfire risk, aggregating data from government monitoring stations, satellite imagery, and IoT sensors and applying machine learning models to produce street-level resolution environmental intelligence that application developers and enterprises integrate into health, insurance, and mobility products. The Haifa company delivers real-time and forecast environmental data at hyperlocal granularity that government monitoring networks cannot match.\n\nThe company raised approximately $21 million in venture funding and was acquired by Google in 2022, integrating its environmental data capabilities into Google Maps, Google Search, and Google Nest products. Prior to acquisition, BreezoMeter had built API customers including insurance companies for climate risk underwriting, asthma and respiratory health applications for personalised air quality alerts, and HVAC companies for air filtration product recommendations tied to local pollution levels.\n\nBreezoMeter competed in the environmental data and climate intelligence market alongside AirVisual (IQAir), PurpleAir, and government air quality data portals. The acquisition by Google reflected the strategic value of hyperlocal environmental data as an enrichment layer for mapping, local search, and home automation products where air quality and pollen information enhances the relevance of location-based recommendations. The combination of machine learning interpolation and sensor fusion to generate street-level environmental data from sparse monitoring networks represented a technically defensible approach that aligned with Google investment in location data quality. Patsnap: Patsnap provides an AI-powered patent analytics and intellectual property intelligence platform that enables R&D teams, IP lawyers, and corporate strategy teams to search, analyse, and monitor global patent databases using machine learning to surface technology trends, competitor patent activity, and freedom-to-operate insights from over 170 million patent documents. The Singapore company integrates patent data with scientific literature and chemical structure databases to provide a comprehensive IP and technology intelligence environment.\n\nThe company raised approximately $300 million including a Series E round from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Tencent, and CPE Yunji, reaching a valuation exceeding $1 billion. Patsnap serves over 10,000 companies globally including R&D-intensive organisations in pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, automotive, and consumer electronics that use patent landscape analysis to inform technology strategy and investment decisions.\n\nPatsnap competes in the IP analytics market against Derwent Advancement (Clarivate), Questel Orbit, and Minesoft, as well as general enterprise search platforms that include patent data. Its AI capabilities for patent claim analysis, technology trend extraction, and cross-domain IP search differentiate it from traditional Boolean-search patent databases, enabling R&D strategy questions to be answered through AI-assisted analysis rather than manual patent review. The Singapore base provides access to both the Southeast Asian technology market and a sophisticated legal and financial services market for IP monetisation and licensing analytics.

Patsnap got there first, launching in 2007 — that's 7 years of extra runway. BreezoMeter didn't arrive until 2014. In AI, that kind of head start means more training data, deeper customer relationships, and a bigger talent moat.

BreezoMeter has about 1-50 employees; Patsnap has about 500-1000. A bigger team usually means more revenue or heavier VC backing, but in AI, small teams can build at massive scale.

Yes — they're direct rivals. Both BreezoMeter and Patsnap compete in AI Data, targeting many of the same buyers. If you're evaluating one, you should be looking at the other.