Deep Forestry, the Swedish robotics and AI company, announced the successful close of a €3 million funding round led by Fairpoint Capital, with participation from Superorganism, Spatial Capital, The Arbor Day Foundation’s Impact Fund, First Gate Invest and others.
Deep Forestry’s autonomous under-canopy drone system produces the first end-to-end, precision single-tree inventory of the world’s forests. This is the foundational data layer that harvest planning, wildfire fuel-load management, carbon and biomass measurement, reforestation monitoring, biodiversity reporting, and timber logistics all depend on to modernize. Each is a multi-billion-dollar market primed for automation that only becomes achievable once precision single-tree ground truth exists.
To date, Deep Forestry’s drones have completed over 1,000 autonomous flights beneath the canopy in forests across multiple continents. The system measures stem diameter with a mean absolute error of 1.6 cm against harvester measurements along the full length of the stem, independently verified by a third-party government forestry authority.
“Autonomous drone surveying beneath the forest canopy was by far the hardest problem to solve. But once achieved, it unlocked the acquisition of precision single-tree inventory: the foundational data layer that forestry and ESG industries had long been missing. By solving end-to-end autonomy in nature, the most complex environment on earth, we’ve built a spatial intelligence stack that generalizes beyond forestry. Every other vertical becomes accessible from here,” said Levi Farrand, CEO and Founder of Deep Forestry.
Hadar Cars, Partner at Fairpoint Capital, commented: “Deep Forestry operates at the intersection of robotics, AI, and sustainable resource management in a market that is only beginning to digitize at scale. We see a clear opportunity for the company to become a category-defining player in under-canopy forest data, with a strong team and a technology stack that is very difficult to replicate.”
“Deep Forestry represents the kind of innovation the Arbor Day Impact Fund was created to support. It is cutting-edge technology that helps us better understand, manage, and protect forests at scale” said Pete Davis, Managing Director of Catalytic Investments at the Arbor Day Foundation. “By bringing unprecedented below-canopy data into forest decision-making, Deep Forestry strengthens transparency, biodiversity outcomes, and the long-term stewardship of our world’s forests, directly advancing the Arbor Day Foundation mission and adding value to our network of partners.”
Tom Quigley, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Superorganism, commented: “We back founders building technologies that directly support biodiversity and nature-positive outcomes, and Deep Forestry is a strong fit with that mandate. Their under-canopy autonomy and analytics can help shift forestry from periodic, low-resolution assessments to continuous, high-resolution insight, enabling better decisions for both ecosystems and industry.”
Deep Forestry will use the funds to expand both its technical and commercial teams and establish a commercial presence in key forestry markets across the world, while deepening partner integrations with players running on top of its inventory layer.
For additional information:
www.deepforestry.com
Sedki Alimam, CMO
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sedki.alimam@deepforestry.com
