Vibrant Planet’s core product is Land Tender, a cloud-based SaaS that combines remotely sensed data (including satellite and lidar) with tools to model how different landscape-management approaches affect ecosystems and wildfire risk. Prices for Land Tender are based on the number of acres managed rather than per-seat, and the product is currently being used on about 7 million acres. Customers to date have included governments and nonprofits focused on land conservation and species preservation, and the company has signed a deal with large utility PG&E and is in talks with other utilities. Vibrant Planet has assembled a science team with hires from academia, the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and NASA. The company sees a broader market in any organization substantially exposed to wildfire-adapted ecosystems and is positioning to expand beyond its initial conservation and government customers. Financially, the company has received government grants in addition to venture funding, bringing its total capital raised to date to $34 million. Vibrant Planet develops Land Tender, a SaaS "operating system for forest restoration" that helps land managers prioritize objectives and model landscape treatments. The platform centers on a lidar-based map of California, with machine learning to fill lidar gaps and AI to update maps using cheaper satellite imagery. Land Tender is sold via per-seat licenses aimed at federal land managers and stakeholders and is priced at $3,500 per seat. The company plans to make the platform available across California by the end of the year and to expand to other Western states next year, with additional regions added depending on lidar availability. A second business plank is providing data and analysis to develop carbon credits, though the company has not disclosed details. Vibrant Planet has built a team of about a dozen ecologists, foresters, geospatial experts and engineers drawn in part from Big Tech.

Total raised

$32M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Oct 2023