
Picterra turns satellite, aerial, and drone imagery into continuous, verifiable environmental intelligence for enterprises. The company offers a cloud-native GeoAI SaaS platform that enables custom AI models for object detection, change detection, and pattern analysis using technologies such as machine learning, optical RGB, multispectral, SAR, NIR, NDVI, thermal, and height-map inputs. Picterra integrates with geospatial tools including Esri ArcGIS Pro and FME and is available on Google Cloud Marketplace, serving industries like mining, forestry, agriculture, FMCG, and EUDR compliance. The platform targets sustainability, monitoring, and compliance use cases by delivering scalable, productized geospatial workflows and evidence-grade outputs for enterprise customers.

Picterra turns satellite, aerial, and drone imagery into continuous, verifiable environmental intelligence for enterprises. The company offers a cloud-native GeoAI SaaS platform that enables custom AI models for object detection, change detection, and pattern analysis using technologies such as machine learning, optical RGB, multispectral, SAR, NIR, NDVI, thermal, and height-map inputs. Picterra integrates with geospatial tools including Esri ArcGIS Pro and FME and is available on Google Cloud Marketplace, serving industries like mining, forestry, agriculture, FMCG, and EUDR compliance. The platform targets sustainability, monitoring, and compliance use cases by delivering scalable, productized geospatial workflows and evidence-grade outputs for enterprise customers.
What they do: Cloud-native GeoAI SaaS converting satellite, aerial, and drone imagery into environmental intelligence
Founded: 2016 (EPFL spin-off)
Headquarters: Ecublens / Chavannes-près-Renens, Canton Vaud, Switzerland
Notable tech: No-code/low-code geospatial ML for object & change detection; supports multispectral, SAR, NDVI inputs
Reported funding: $9.8M total (seed + Series A) with a grant round in Oct 2024
Geospatial intelligence for monitoring, compliance, and environmental/sustainability use cases
2016
Data and Analytics
$3.3M
$6.5M
“Atlantic; Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT); Innosuisse; Omidyar Network; Space Capital; VI Partners”