Unlocking Soil Carbon: Scalable carbon farming on 6 continents from space
Berlin-based Climate Tech startup Seqana raises €2.1M Seed round
Seqana has secured €2.1M from German seed investor HTGF and carbon removal firm Counteract to refine its soil carbon measurement algorithm.
Food and beverage companies are embracing carbon farming practices utilizing soil-based carbon storage to align with current regulations, meet consumer demands, and enhance both yield and supply chain resilience. Seqana offers a cost-effective, rigorous, and highly scalable approach to quantifying the climate benefits derived from these initiatives
Leveraging over one million proprietary and public ground truth data points, satellite imagery and machine learning, Seqana addresses the primary roadblock to scaling carbon farming: the cost of MRV (monitoring, reporting, and verification). Seqana is working on projects with global players such as South Pole, LoamBio, TASC and Justdiggit and many others.
Seqana is contracted by Gold Standard, driving the development of rigorous, scalable, affordable soil carbon measurement protocols. Seqana’s CTO Julian Kremers has co-founded the International Soil Carbon Industry Alliance (ISCIA) to further contribute to this sector’s development as a whole.
This work promises to pioneer comparability and transparency in the market, unlocking massive growth. Its significance is underscored by the European Union’s policy announcements regarding the carbon removal certification framework, emphasizing the crucial role of carbon farming, particularly on a pan-European scale, in the near future.
With over 5 Million hectares analyzed, Seqana is on its way to becoming the world’s supplier for MRV-as-a-service, providing scalable and comparable measurement of planetary boundaries.
"This funding marks a major milestone in our mission to scale carbon farming, and puts wind in our sails, mitigating climate change by scaling climate smart agriculture, while keeping the bar for scientific rigor at an absolute maximum", Stefan Gönner, CEO.
"The potential impact of carbon removal via soil carbon is immense for global climate change mitigation, and with its machine learning and satellite-enabled approach, Seqana is paving the way for its economic realization. We are thrilled to support their vision of unlocking carbon farming globally", Anne Umbach, Investment Manager at HTGF.
"Since our inception at Counteract we’ve been invested in innovators in farming practices that sequester carbon. Seqana delivers planetary scale solutions to reduce the cost of soil carbon monitoring, in turn unlocking a key barrier to rewarding farmers for climate friendly practices and supporting food and agriculture companies in reducing the carbon intensity of their supply chains", Matt Isaacs, Managing Partner Counteract.
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