Investor brief · confidential

The measurement layer for Nepal's forest economy.

Nepal gave a third of its forests to its communities. We give those forests data they can verify, restore and finance — UAV + AI tree inventories, a live national observatory, and field-grade carbon baselines.

A registered company in Nepal · Founding team of five · Live product shipping

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trees mapped in pilot
Individual-crown inventory, field-validated
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CFUGs addressable in Nepal
Community forest user groups (DoFSC, 2023)
$0B
global remote-sensing MRV market
2024, heading to $5.1B by 2033
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founding team
Forestry, GIS, wildlife & policy
The problem

Nepal protects its forests but can't measure them.

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Data is coarse & stale

Forest figures live in paper operational plans and decadal national inventories — too coarse to verify carbon or target restoration at the management-unit level.

02

Carbon finance is locked out

Buyers and registries need measured, auditable baselines. Without them, community forests can't access the carbon and biodiversity markets now worth billions.

03

Expertise is fragmented

Drone pilots, GIS analysts, foresters and ecologists rarely sit in one team. Communities get one-off surveys, not a living monitoring system.

The solution

Ground-truth forest data, at software margins.

GeoSutra fuses UAV imagery, open satellite feeds and AI into an individual-tree picture of a forest — then keeps it current. Services pay the bills today; the data platform compounds the value.

  • Capture — UAV orthomosaics at centimetre resolution + field plots for validation
  • Detect — DeepForest AI delineates and measures every tree crown
  • Serve — maps, reports, dashboards and APIs, all clipped to Nepal
  • Monitor — repeat surveys and satellite alerts track change over time

Observatory

A live national canopy dashboard — biodiversity, fire and forest layers in one place.

Tree-level inventory

Stem counts, crown area and structure — auditable against the ground.

Carbon baselines

Field-inventory AGB & carbon, ready for MRV and registry submission.

The market

A large, funded, policy-driven market.

Forest measurement sits at the intersection of climate finance, government planning and community forestry — all expanding, all under-served by trustworthy data. The figures below are external market estimates, with sources.

$1.7B
TAM — global remote-sensing MRV for carbon
2024; forecast $5.1B by 2033 at ~13% CAGR
$357M
SAM — Asia-Pacific remote-sensing MRV
~21% of the global market, 2024
$45M
SOM signal — Nepal's REDD+ carbon agreement
World Bank ERPA, Terai Arc Landscape

Sources: remote-sensing MRV market — DataIntelo (2024); voluntary carbon market & forestry/land-use — Ecosystem Marketplace, The Business Research Company (2025); Nepal REDD+ ERPA — World Bank / Government of Nepal.

23,682 CFUGs

Community forest user groups — 3M+ households managing ~40% of Nepal's forest. Each is a potential monitoring customer or grant beneficiary.

Government & donors

Nepal's REDD+ Terai programme cut 2.4M tCO₂ (2018–2024). Division forest offices, IUCN, FAO and bilateral donors fund inventory, MRV and restoration.

Carbon & nature buyers

Forestry & land use dominate a voluntary carbon market that buyers increasingly require to be measured, digital and auditable — exactly what we produce.

Traction

Built and shipping — not a deck.

A working product, a real pilot and a credentialed team already on the ground.

Shipped

A live, full-stack product

  • Flagship pilot: 6,543 trees individually mapped at 4.4 cm GSD (0.75 mAP)
  • Two live map apps — Canopy Observatory + Climate Analytics
  • 10 free forestry tools driving inbound
  • Backend, database, auth and security already in production
Momentum

Commercial & institutional pull

  • Paid survey and operational-plan engagements with community forests
  • A growing pipeline of CFUGs and forest offices for repeat monitoring
  • Partnership conversations across donor and carbon-market organisations
  • Grants & research backing from Nat Geo, IUCN, Explorers Club, RECOFTC

Detailed pipeline, contracts and commercials shared on request.

Business model

Services fund the platform; the platform compounds.

A classic services-to-product motion — cash-generative consulting today, recurring software-and-data revenue as the observatory scales.

Now

Services & surveys

Fixed-scope UAV surveys, operational plans and monitoring — from NPR 25k to custom programmes.

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Next

Platform subscriptions

Recurring dashboard + data-API access for offices, NGOs and donors managing many sites.

Then

Carbon & nature MRV

Per-credit measurement, verification and reporting — revenue scaling with transacted carbon.

Why this team

Foresters who can fly drones and ship software.

Five forestry-science graduates who met doing fieldwork in Nepal's hills — pairing real time on the ground with drones, AI and policy access.

GIS & Drone Ops

Nat Geo / TNC grantee, AI mapping, UNCCD COP16.

Wildlife Ecology

IUCN SSC grantee, RECOFTC research, tiger survey.

Biodiversity & SDM

Explorers Club grantee, published researcher, COP29.

Policy & Comms

NDC 3.0 contributor, climate-negotiation training.

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The ask

We're raising to scale a working product.

A registered Nepali company with a live platform, a field-validated pilot and a credentialed team — raising to become Nepal's default forest-measurement platform. We'll share round size, terms and projections directly with serious investors.

Where the capital goes

Platform & AI

Engineering the observatory, inventory pipeline and data APIs.

Field ops

Expanding UAV surveys and pilots across more community forests.

Go-to-market

Donor, government and carbon-market partnerships.

Detailed financials, traction and projections available in the data room on request.