Airly is a sensing-as-a-service (SaaS) company providing hyperlocal air quality monitoring and actionable insights to reduce air pollution and improve public health. By deploying its own cost-effective sensors and integrating third-party devices into a broad network, Airly delivers high-resolution data on multiple pollutants, enabling cities, public bodies, and large corporations to understand pollution sources and implement targeted interventions.
Its end-to-end value chain spans monitoring, analytics, policy recommendations, and impact tracking. This has already led to concrete outcomes: Bucharest identified illegal waste burning as a key pollution source; Krakow banned wood and coal heating systems; and Bedford and Birmingham introduced ‘green school streets’ that restrict diesel cars around schools.
Airly operates in a competitive landscape that includes infrastructure-based monitoring, expensive gravimetric solutions, and low-cost sensor providers, yet differentiates itself through data quality, trusted accuracy, and a scalable sensing-as-a-service model—well positioned as sensors become commoditized. The mission-driven founding team of physicists (Wiktor Warchałowski, Aleksander Konior, and Michał Miśiek), complemented by COO Jonathan Gartside, combines deep technical expertise with operational and commercial experience.
Airly’s impact model demonstrates how each additional sensor expands coverage and increases the likelihood of effective air quality measures being implemented. The company has already contributed to measurable air quality improvements in Europe and is poised to scale its product and impact globally.
Airly raised $5.5M in a Series A round led by firstminute capital and Pi Labs, with participation from AENU, the Richard Branson Family Office, Cal Henderson, Marcin Zukowski, Semapa Next, and to.org.
Airly is a sensing-as-a-service (SaaS) company providing hyperlocal air quality monitoring and actionable insights to improve public health and urban environments. Using a proprietary network of cost-effective sensors, complemented by third-party devices, Airly collects high-resolution data on multiple pollutants and translates it into clear recommendations for policymakers, cities, and businesses.
Their end-to-end solution spans the full value chain: monitoring air quality, generating insights, identifying interventions, and tracking the impact of implemented measures. This approach has already enabled concrete policy changes: Bucharest traced pollution spikes to illegal waste burning; Krakow banned wood and coal heating systems; and Bedford and Birmingham introduced ‘green school streets’ that restrict diesel cars around schools.
Airly operates in a competitive landscape that includes infrastructure-based solutions, gravimetric analysis providers, and low-cost sensor players. As sensors commoditize, Airly’s strength lies in its sensing-as-a-service model, data quality, and ability to integrate diverse sensor sources into a unified, scalable network.
The company is led by a mission-driven, resilient team of physicist-founders Wiktor Warchałowski, Aleksander Konior, and Michal Miśiek, complemented by COO Jonathan Gartside, who brings experience from Bulb and BCG. Positioned between public bodies and large corporations, Airly is helping to build the air quality market itself, demonstrating through a detailed impact model how each additional sensor expands coverage and increases the likelihood of effective air quality interventions.
Airly has already contributed to measurable air quality improvements in Europe and is poised to scale its product and impact globally. The company raised a $5.5M Series A round led by firstminute capital and Pi Labs, with participation from AENU, Richard Branson Family Office, Cal Henderson, Marcin Zukowski, Semapa Next, and to.org.
