
Understory provides vegetation analysis software that monitors and quantifies landscape changes for environmental management, habitat conservation, and climate risk assessment. Their platform, NatMap, leverages drone and satellite imagery to identify vegetation down to the species level and quantify biomass coverage, providing measurable environmental performance indicators. This data assists customers with regulatory compliance, verification of carbon sequestration, and improvement of nature-based solutions. They emphasize actionable information for healthier ecosystems, citing benefits like up to a 100x increase in resolution, 3-10x cost reduction, and 10-100x time savings per project compared to conventional methods.

Understory provides vegetation analysis software that monitors and quantifies landscape changes for environmental management, habitat conservation, and climate risk assessment. Their platform, NatMap, leverages drone and satellite imagery to identify vegetation down to the species level and quantify biomass coverage, providing measurable environmental performance indicators. This data assists customers with regulatory compliance, verification of carbon sequestration, and improvement of nature-based solutions. They emphasize actionable information for healthier ecosystems, citing benefits like up to a 100x increase in resolution, 3-10x cost reduction, and 10-100x time savings per project compared to conventional methods.
Product: Geospatial SaaS (NatMap) using drone and satellite imagery plus ML to identify vegetation to species level and quantify biomass and ecological metrics
Use cases: Land management, habitat conservation, regulatory compliance, carbon sequestration verification, climate risk assessment
Employees: 19
Funding (reported): Seed and later rounds; total funding listed in one source as $1.25M (last funding 2023-04-15) and separate coverage reports a $15M Series A (2024-06-05) for an identically named company
Environmental monitoring, habitat conservation, nature-based solutions verification, climate risk assessment, and land management
Geospatial SaaS / Environmental tech
1250000.00
Total funding amount reported with last funding date 2023-04-15