With climate change changing the way businesses operate, forestry has seen huge advancements in tech-driven solutions to enhance biodiversity and improve the ways companies are operating.

How Does Forestry Work?

Forestry involves the management, conservation, and restoration of forests to maintain their health, productivity, and biodiversity. Tech startups are improving forestry by using satellite imagery, AI, and data analytics to monitor forest health, track deforestation, and optimise reforestation efforts. By combining technology with environmental science, startups are making forestry more efficient and crucial in combating climate change.

Top 8 Startups Improving Forestry

These startups are making enormous progress in utilising technology to conserve and restore the world’s forests, whether it is through reforestation or through supply chain transparency.

1. Timbeter 

Timbeter provides digitally oriented solutions that are designed to assist forestry companies with timber volume calculation and management as well. An incisive understanding of AI and machine learning makes it possible to take a few images of logs and count, sort and monitor them using just one mobile application. It improves accuracy and reduces wastage in the forestry sector while promoting sustainable management and conservation of forests around the globe. 

2. Overstory 

Overstory focuses on monitoring everything relating to forests, including every single tree standing across the world by utilising satellite data and machine learning. This startup offers relevant information and insights concerning vegetation around power infrastructure, helping to reduce the risk of wildfires and outages, therefore enabling strategies for the protection of biodiversity and conservation planning. Overstory is a pioneer in forest protection empowered by technology through early warning systems against threats to forests. 

3. CollectiveCrunch 

Sustainable forestry is at the heart of CollectiveCrunch. This startup uses AI and machine learning to analyse things like climate, satellite, and geospatial data; gaining insights into a forest’s health. Their aim is to use data to help tackle climate change, improve forest biodiversity and decrease risks. Using artificial intelligence, the platform ‘Linda’ effectively turns information about forests into useful suggestions for the forestry sector, increasing the sustainability and carbon offset possibilities in a manner compatible with industrial needs. 

4. Ecosia 

Ecosia claims to be the search engine that plants trees. This startup utilises 80% of its advertising revenue to promote tree-planting activities all over the planet, Ecosia has managed to plant more than 150 million trees and is trying to plant in areas that need the most trees such as tropical rainforests. Their main goal is to help in the conservation of biodiversity as well as carbon dioxide gases. 

5. Satelligence 

Satelligence is a Dutch agritech startup that focuses on using satellite data and AI to tackle environmental challenges, particularly in agricultural supply chains. It collaborates with businesses, governmental institutions and NGOs to measure and report the loss or degradation of forests, allowing companies to make sure their goods are not responsible for deforestation. 

6. Tesselo 

Tesselo applies satellite monitoring and artificial intelligence to observe and analyse how forests grow so that land managers can know how best to estimate tree replanting areas and stop deforestation. They have hope that well-controlled and managed deforestation will substantially improve their ability to protect and manage these important ecosystems. 

7. Connect Earth 

According to Connect Earth’s website, they offer a ‘suite of AI-driven products to calculate and reduce carbon emissions’. This startup does this by collecting data and insights about the environment and making them available to corporations so that the corporations may keep track of their pollution level.

8. Land Life

Land Life Company is a reforestation startup focused on restoring degraded land using innovative, tech-driven solutions. Land Life envisions a world with no barren land, where every piece of land is potentially restored. They precisely plant trees with the use of drones or satellites in those areas covered with forests where trees are callable to survive. The focus of their activity is large tree planting aiming at the restoration of degraded ecosystems in jungles and forests all over the Earth.