Enterprise Water Usage Management Software sector
Strategic acquirers, private equity (buyout funds and growth funds) firms, and valuation benchmarks for Enterprise Water Usage Management Software
1.1 - About Enterprise Water Usage Management Software sector
Companies in Enterprise Water Usage Management Software provide digital platforms and connected devices to monitor, analyze, and control water consumption across facilities, campuses, and distribution networks. They unify metering data with IoT telemetry to detect leaks, benchmark usage, forecast demand, and automate compliance and ESG reporting. The value proposition is cost savings, conservation, operational resilience, and transparency for enterprises, utilities, and institutions evaluating strategic buyers in water management technology.
They deploy smart metering and AMI platforms to capture interval data, pair it with IoT sensors tracking flow, pressure, and quality, and run analytics to detect and localize leaks. Customers use consumption dashboards with benchmarking and alerts, model demand and water balancing, and optimize irrigation with weather and soil inputs. Integrations with BMS, SCADA, and CMMS, together with automated regulatory reporting and API-based workflows, orchestrate remediation and conservation programs at scale.
Primary customers include municipal water utilities, industrial manufacturers, commercial property operators, and large campuses. These solutions help reduce non‑revenue water and leakage, lower operating and tariff costs, improve usage visibility and compliance, and advance ESG performance targets. Buyers also gain faster incident response, demand-side planning accuracy, and the ability to prioritize capital projects based on data‑driven risk and conservation impact.
2. Buyers in the Enterprise Water Usage Management Software sector
2.1 Top strategic acquirers of Enterprise Water Usage Management Software companies
Badger Meter
- Description: Provider of flow measurement, water quality and gas monitoring instrumentation, metering technologies and analytics software—including ultrasonic, electromagnetic and turbine meters, AMI/AMR endpoints, data loggers and SaaS platforms—that enable real-time monitoring, leak detection and network insights for municipal, commercial and industrial applications.
- Key Products:
- BEACON SaaS: Cloud-based utility management platform capturing interval meter data via cellular, fixed or mobile networks, enabling proactive exception management, consumer engagement and detailed reporting
- ORION Endpoints: Advanced Metering Infrastructure and Automated Meter Reading communication devices offering mobile and cellular options to transmit precise consumption data for utilities
- E-Series Ultrasonic Meters: Solid-state, maintenance-free residential/commercial meters with 9-digit LCD displaying consumption, flow rate, reverse flow and alarms, delivering high low-flow accuracy
- Pressure & Leak Monitoring: Remote sensors reporting pressure data, alarms and insights in real time to identify leaks, reduce non-revenue water loss and stabilize water networks.
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2.2 - Strategic buyer groups for Enterprise Water Usage Management Software sector
M&A buyer group 1: Water and Wastewater Management Tech
Xylem
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- Description: Provider of water and wastewater solutions that leverage a broad portfolio of pumps, filtration, biological treatment, disinfection and oxidation technologies to deliver customized, energy-efficient, low life-cycle-cost systems for municipal, commercial and industrial applications.
- Key Products:
- Municipal Wastewater Solutions: Evaluates plant needs and supplies systems that harness air, microbes, gravity and light to cleanse water, delivering low life-cycle-cost wastewater treatment
- Municipal Potable Water Innovations: Provides energy-efficient, reliable, easy-to-operate processes and equipment helping utilities conserve energy, maximize every drop and meet stricter quality standards
- Food & Beverage Water Cycle Solutions: Integrates Flygt pumps
- Leopold filtration
- Sanitaire biological treatment and Wedeco disinfection/oxidation to move, treat and reuse water across production facilities, reducing water footprint
- Pharmaceutical Water Treatment Processes: Delivers treatment schemes meeting PW
- HPW and WFI grades, enabling safe, sustainable water practices from feedwater through manufacture to final discharge.
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●● companies3. Investors and private equity firms in Enterprise Water Usage Management Software sector
3.1 - Buyout funds in the Enterprise Water Usage Management Software sector
2.2 - Strategic buyer groups for Enterprise Water Usage Management Software sector
4 - Top valuation comps for Enterprise Water Usage Management Software companies
4.2 - Public trading comparable groups for Enterprise Water Usage Management Software sector
Valuation benchmark group 1: Energy Asset Performance Software Companies
Baosight
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- Description: Provider of industrial automation and IT solutions, delivering comprehensive software and system integration services for steel, manufacturing, and infrastructure sectors, with expertise in automation, control systems, and intelligent manufacturing technologies.
- Key Products:
- Automation Systems: Integrated solutions for industrial process control and optimization
- Intelligent Manufacturing: Advanced tools for smart production and factory management
- IT Consulting: Services for strategic digital transformation and IT infrastructure
- Electromechanical Equipment: High-tech solutions for equipment management and maintenance
- System Integration: Comprehensive integration of software systems and operational technologies