From Singapore to the Amazon and beyond, meet the 2023 cohort for the Biodiversity Accelerator+
Growing our community of innovators to create a paradigm shift for nature
Today, we proudly announce the 8 startups selected in 2023 for the Biodiversity Accelerator+!
Rigorously screened from an international pool of competitive applicants, these companies impressed the judging panel based on a wide range of characteristics across social and environmental impact, as well as business model and market opportunities.
This cohort addresses the biodiversity crisis across a broad range of market-based interventions, including corporate supply chain risk management, biodiversity data collection and analytics, sustainable aquaculture, private sector financing for nature-based solutions, and the forest bioeconomy. By bringing these complimentary startups together, the Biodiversity Accelerator+ is excited to forge a collaborative environment for innovation and excellence.
The value of diversity is also reflected in the assemblage of founders, with more than half of the companies having women founders, and 63% based out of a wide range of APAC countries.
Read more on the cohort below, and stay tuned for future longer form articles on these exciting companies!
Arbimon (USA)
Arbimon’s eco-acoustics platform enables global partners to monitor biodiversity and ecosystem health at scale with the power of sound and AI, promoting high-impact conservation and sustainable management. To date, Arbimon has identified over 310 threatened species out of 3,552 recorded, including birds, frogs, and primates.
Bioverse (Brazil)
Bioverse uses drones, satellite imagery, and mobile applications to provide critical operational data for the tropical forest bioeconomy. By equipping Amazonian communities with the digital tools they need to scale up their harvest of non-timber forest products (NTFP), they aren’t just preventing deforestation and poaching as a sole means of income – they’re also ensuring more sustainable sourcing and equitable labour practices by corporate ingredient buyers.
Blue Sky Analytics (India)
Blue Sky Analytics is a Climate Intelligence company leveraging satellite data and AI to provide high resolution, high frequency data for a variety of parameters for Carbon Markets, Asset Monitoring, and Climate Risk Analytics. As its next feature, it is adding offerings in biodiversity measurements. Blue Sky Analytics has been recognized by impact themed awards including the Schmidt Futures AI Innovation Award (2020), Tech For Global Good (2021), and Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst (2022).
EarthAcre (US, Kenya)
EarthAcre is on a mission to mitigate climate change and biodiversity collapse with local community's knowledge and technology. By implementing cutting edge technologies for transparent, scalable quantification and monetization of biodiversity, they are creating a mechanism for indigenous ecological knowledge to be the driver of permanence in nature-based solutions.
Guardians of Earth (Global)
Guardians of Earth empowers organisations to address the biodiversity crisis at scale. By combining gaming, AI, AR, VR and Indigenous knowledge systems to create virtual twins called "Nature Realms", Guardians of Earth engages people with nature in exciting new ways, while also amassing real-world biodiversity data. The biodiversity data collected by users is verified by an open, global network of trusted knowledge holders, with a platform that financially rewards people for monitoring and raising the value of their natural capital assets.
Nika.eco (Singapore)
Nika.eco provides a neutral, fast, and seamless workspace for carbon financiers and developers to cost-effectively streamline processes at the pre-feasibility stage of project development. By having a coded software to produce pre-feasibility reports with risk, land-use history, and carbon sequestration analyses, they are bridging the skills gap in the carbon space to finance high-quality projects with proven additionality.
Oceanfarmr (Australia and the US)
Oceanfarmr is accelerating the growth of restorative ocean farming on a global scale. With a full-suite solution for farmers – from software solutions to optimize farmer productivity, to farm financing products – they are enabling the growth of some of the world’s most sustainable sources of protein that also benefit the surrounding ecosystem and habitat diversity. Â
Xylo Systems (Australia)
Xylo’s cloud-based, data-powered AI platform makes it 10x easier and 5x faster for businesses to measure, manage and report on their biodiversity footprint, in line with global initiatives such as the TNFD and SBTN. It was named in The Australian's Green Power Players List in 2023.
With the recognition that this crisis transcends borders and demands collective action, the Biodiversity Accelerator+ is looking forward to congregating these companies with mission-aligned coaches, mentors, investors and other key ecosystem players in our one-week kick-off in Singapore.
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A big thank you to all our partners, who helped us source and identify some of these start-ups, including The Biodiversity Consultancy, Superorganism, Conservation International Ventures, Carbon Growth Partners, the XPrize, Ecotone Partners, Temasek Foundation, Regen Ventures, Impact Hub Shanghai, WILDLABS, Ground Effect, and more.
The Biodiversity Accelerator+ is an initiative of Silverstrand Capital.