🌱 This week in NatureTech #18

🐘 Long Read (3 -Min Read)

Behold the NatureTech market map 🗺️ 

Over the last 18 months, with every deep dive and story, we’ve been keeping a note of some of the most promising start-ups in the NatureTech space.

Things snowballed slightly and we now have a database of 800+ startups.

Now it's time to open-source it!

We’ve grouped start-ups as follows:

🦅 1. Measure These innovators are focussed on collecting the data we need to understand Nature's complexity like the Eagle which can collect visual data from over 3km away.

🐧 2. Aggregate Collate data from multiple sources and begin to draw insights from it like the chinstrap Penguin which aggregates into colonies of up to 1 million individuals.

🦌 3. Act Help corporates take action through finance, or transformation within their supply chains like the very (Act)ive Caribou which has the longest terrestrial migration of over 1,200km.

🧸 4. Project Developers: The frontliners taking building nature-positive projects, that can be adopted or financed by corporates like the Beaver which builds dams up to 850m long, and can even be seen from space

We want this to be as comprehensive as possible. So please do take a look, provide any feedback, and add any companies we’ve missed (or better yet forward this email on to their founders and make them do it!)

Thanks folks!

💬 Snippets for your lift conversations

• Big business: Swedish carmaker Volvo has published a position paper on nature and biodiversity, pledging to take action to reduce its impacts

• Big business: Candy Crush producer King announced it has purchased 543 voluntary biodiversity units from the Iford biodiversity project in the South Downs National Park to help fund the restoration of low-quality cropland into native woodland

• Finance: Wealthy nations have one year to plug $5bn gap, says OECD in its annual report tracking progress in the field of international biodiversity finance.

• Finance: At least five African countries are working on what could be the world's first joint "debt-for-nature" swap to raise at least $2 billion to protect a coral-rich swathe of Indian Ocean, according to a global conservation group.

• Finance: A group of French asset owners expects to announce a new biodiversity fund at the upcoming biodiversity COP.

• NatureTech: Refinq launches biodiversity analysis tool to help corporates understand nature-related risk

• NatureTech: A Denmark-based company, Ambient Carbon, announced a field test to remove methane from dairy barn exhaust using a non-invasive technology.

• Policy: The European Commission said it would propose delaying implementation of a law banning the import of commodities linked to deforestation by a year on Wednesday, following calls from industries and governments around the world.

• Policy: Norway released its nature action plan ahead of next month’s COP16, but stopped short of making national commitments aligned with the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)

• Research: Botanists have identified 33 “dark spots” around the world where thousands of plant species are probably waiting to be discovered, according to new research.

• Research: Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged to the highest number for September in almost a decade and a half, preliminary government data showed on Tuesday, after reaching similar highs in the two preceding months.

• Markets: Cercarbono, a leading carbon standard organisation, has officially approved the Savimbo Indicator Species Biodiversity Methodology for use in biodiversity crediting projects

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🎣 Deals

• After raising a $150 million Series B earlier this year, Colossal Biosciences, a start-up focussed on de-extinction of the Dodo bird and the woolly mammoth has a new idea.  It has announced it will be launching a new non-profit: the Colossal Foundation. Already backed by a confirmed $50 million in funding for conservation.

• Crop protection solutions provider AgroSpheres has made a final close of its Series B fundraise, bringing total Series B funding to $37 million.

• Foodtech startup Foreverland bags €3.4M for sustainable cocoa-free chocolate alternatives

• Foodforecast, a German AI startup in the food retail market, has raised over €3 million in funding for better sales forecasting to reduce food waste

💭 Little Bytes - Oyster edition

📊Stat: In 7.5 to 10 days 1 billion oysters could completely filter NYC harbour’s 1.5 trillion litres of water! (Kudos Oliver Bolton CEO of Earthly for this stat)

📺️Watch: Transforming oyster shells into a bio-alternative concrete

💬 Listen: Sounds from a healthy oyster reef

📆 Events

• 8 October - The Global Nature Positive Summit 2024 - Sydney

• 9 October - frontiers in Nature-Finance: capital, compliance, and checks & balances. - London

• 17 October: Wildya+ Masterclass: Show and Tell - Wild Mosaic

• 21 Oct to 1 Nov - COP16 - For those attending check out Joshua Berger’s awesome summary of events

• 16 October - greenwashing and greenhushing: navigating the corporate goldilocks zone - London

• 24 October - Bloom - Colombia

• 29 October: Wildya+ Masterclass: How to find product market fit with Anna Alex (Nala)

💼 Jobs

Special thanks to Theresa Lieb for this awesome list…

🐼 Corporate 🐼 

Tesco, Lead Nature Manager (Hertfordshire, UK) https://lnkd.in/etdq95Vc

Lego, Senior Manager, Global Sustainability Water and Nature (Billund, Denmark)https://lnkd.in/eNzNBStK

Danone, Sustainability Manager, Nature (Hoofddorp, Netherlands)https://lnkd.in/ex4DhJ-F

Danone, CDI — Nature Controller (Paris, France)https://lnkd.in/ekD_XqCK

ClimeCo, Project Manager, Nature Based Solutions (remote, US) https://lnkd.in/ei5mwwH9

IUCN, Programme Officer, Business and Nature (Cambridge, UK) https://lnkd.in/eauQUgTY

WWF, Knowledge Manager, Freshwater Practice (hybrid, Europe) https://lnkd.in/embs7iRY

🐝Finance🐝

BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group, Portfolio Manager (New York, US) https://lnkd.in/ejmizFMP

Conservation International, Americas & Amazonia Bioeconomy Investment Lead - CI Ventures (Brazil, Colombia or Peru) https://lnkd.in/eAYe3znB

🦊 Nature-based solution projects & nature tech startups 🦊

Treeconomy, Product Lead (hybrid, UK) https://lnkd.in/ekn39H4k

Conservation X Labs, Senior Director of Development (Washington, DC, US) https://lnkd.in/eC5Wc_Mc

Carbon Farm, Product Manager (Paris, France) https://lnkd.in/er-nKPJ4