Kristjan Lepik, Co-founder & CEO, Arbonics | Slush 2025
summary
Company builds a high-resolution digital forest platform that generates digital forest reports in one minute for landowners, using satellites and drones to measure change over time. Product uses 5x5 m hexagon units with ~30 data layers, and the team has raised €9M with half spent on tech to map >1 million hectares and thousands of land parcels across Estonia, Latvia, Sweden and the UK. Buyers are large US tech firms paying into emerging transparent carbon markets; goal is pan‑European coverage at ~€25M.
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- 0:00Introduction and problem
- 1:30Carbon markets today
- 3:15New carbon market solutions
- 4:01Technology and landowner engagement
- 6:11How the system works
- 8:21Remote sensing and future plans
- 9:24Nature as engineering
- 10:05Call to action for Europe
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