Funding & startups

Forestry tech startups, funding rounds, grants, acquisitions and public programmes backing new forest technology.

Satellite monitoring

ICEYE takes EU fund's first cheque, US Forest Service $105.5M for wood markets | #059

Aug 18, 2026

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2 min read

ICEYE takes EU fund's first cheque, US Forest Service $105.5M for wood markets | #059

Also: GPS planting tube logs every seedling, DRI reads tree water stress from video, mature forests grow beyond the satellite record

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

OroraTech satellites expose Arkansas arson, UMaine wins $20M for bioproducts | #056

Jul 28, 2026

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1 min read

OroraTech satellites expose Arkansas arson, UMaine wins $20M for bioproducts | #056

Also: Skyforest drone seedling inventory trials, SilvaBio chestnut with lab-grown seed, Oregon maps wildfires with Intterra

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

OroraTech satellites go live in Greece, Bezos Earth Fund gives FireSat $26M | #053

Jul 7, 2026

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1 min read

OroraTech satellites go live in Greece, Bezos Earth Fund gives FireSat $26M | #053

Also: Skogforsk measures stem sweep from the harvester, Ecobase registers with Verra and builds Forestry OS for Swedish foresters

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Jul 2, 2026

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4 min read

Nordic Forestry Automation raises SEK 48M for harvester automation, deep dive | #052

Sponsored deep dive: what the round funds, Generation 2 semi-automation for thinning harvesters, and the stand data NFA collects

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

NFA closes SEK 48M harvester round, Arboreal IDs logs from end-grain photos | #051

Jun 30, 2026

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2 min read

NFA closes SEK 48M harvester round, Arboreal IDs logs from end-grain photos | #051

Also: Norway puts 90M kroner into FAO's SEPAL satellite platform, Canada commits $130M across 56 forest-sector projects

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Södra scales Viking Analytics AI to 3 mills, SweTree robot picks tree embryos | #049

Jun 16, 2026

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3 min read

Södra scales Viking Analytics AI to 3 mills, SweTree robot picks tree embryos | #049

Also: Logscom marks logs in the harvester for traceability, New Dawn Bio grows wood in bioreactors, Treebula hires CXO and CTO

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

AirForestry drone thinning gets SEK 20M pilots, NIBIO AI rates forest roads | #047

Jun 2, 2026

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2 min read

AirForestry drone thinning gets SEK 20M pilots, NIBIO AI rates forest roads | #047

Also: Arboair's first UK drone forest survey at the Duchy of Cornwall, and NUS uses AI bioacoustics to map rainforest biodiversity

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Deep Forestry raises €3M, OroraTech launches wildfire satellites for Greece | #044

May 12, 2026

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3 min read

Deep Forestry raises €3M, OroraTech launches wildfire satellites for Greece | #044

Also: a loblolly pine lidar digital twin lifts yield 15%, GCC approves digital carbon MRV, and open-source GeoAgent for QGIS

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

AirForestry leads SEK 48M drone consortium, SLU detects pesticides by sound | #043

May 5, 2026

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3 min read

AirForestry leads SEK 48M drone consortium, SLU detects pesticides by sound | #043

Also: Metsä and Stora Enso frame AI as baseline infrastructure, Biodiv raises SEK 2.75M, and Mongabay's ten forces reshaping forests

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Weyerhaeuser adopts NFA harvester AI, Södra closes venture arm Södra Ädla | #042

Apr 28, 2026

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3 min read

Weyerhaeuser adopts NFA harvester AI, Södra closes venture arm Södra Ädla | #042

Also: Dryad hangs 1,100 wildfire sensors in Colorado, 3Dtrees.earth opens a forest lidar pipeline, Billerud's electric timber truck

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Mellanskog Skogstorget hits 25% of clearing, Nordic BioPower starts biochar | #040

Apr 14, 2026

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5 min read

Mellanskog Skogstorget hits 25% of clearing, Nordic BioPower starts biochar | #040

Also: Jobba Grönt recruits gamers as harvester operators, Alabama's forestry accelerator, and Canada funds a robotic truss plant

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Mar 3, 2026

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4 min read

AirForestry drone completes autonomous harvest, Purdue AI maps 280M city trees | #034

Also: UCL's ForestScan 3D lidar dataset, terraPulse on global forest disturbance mapping, and INTERFORST 2026's Forest 4.0 programme

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

SLU flies Europe's first hyperspectral lidar drone, AirForestry names new CEO | #022

Dec 16, 2025

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3 min read

SLU flies Europe's first hyperspectral lidar drone, AirForestry names new CEO | #022

Also: how satellites and sensors catch wildfires earlier, Treemetrics opens Crann AI platform, F6S top forestry companies list

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Södra and Terra Labs AI decision support, Vinnova funds Skogforsk biocredits | #021

Dec 9, 2025

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3 min read

Södra and Terra Labs AI decision support, Vinnova funds Skogforsk biocredits | #021

Also: site index from satellite and NFI plots, forest growth from space in China, Arboair and Forsler AI forestry in Denmark

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Terra Labs deep dive, AI stand delineation and satellite forest inventory | #010

Oct 2, 2025

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4 min read

Terra Labs deep dive, AI stand delineation and satellite forest inventory | #010

How the Stockholm AI company behind the Mellanskog partnership builds precision forestry from lidar and satellite data

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Mid Sweden University 5G drone forest machines, Ecotype raises for Skogshubben | #008

Sep 23, 2025

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3 min read

Mid Sweden University 5G drone forest machines, Ecotype raises for Skogshubben | #008

Also: China's laser logging cannon, PlantVation and Planteva bring Seedling-as-a-Service to North America, 2025 ag drones

Axel Wretemark

AI & agents

SonicFlora ultrasonic plant stress AI, a case for tree nursery monitoring | #004

Sep 2, 2025

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6 min read

SonicFlora ultrasonic plant stress AI, a case for tree nursery monitoring | #004

Deep dive: Swedish startup SonicFlora hears stressed tomato plants, could the same sensors monitor seedlings and seed orchards?

Axel Wretemark

Funding & startups

ICEYE takes EU fund's first cheque, US Forest Service $105.5M for wood markets | #059

OroraTech satellites expose Arkansas arson, UMaine wins $20M for bioproducts | #056

OroraTech satellites go live in Greece, Bezos Earth Fund gives FireSat $26M | #053

Nordic Forestry Automation raises SEK 48M for harvester automation, deep dive | #052

NFA closes SEK 48M harvester round, Arboreal IDs logs from end-grain photos | #051

Södra scales Viking Analytics AI to 3 mills, SweTree robot picks tree embryos | #049

AirForestry drone thinning gets SEK 20M pilots, NIBIO AI rates forest roads | #047

Deep Forestry raises €3M, OroraTech launches wildfire satellites for Greece | #044

AirForestry leads SEK 48M drone consortium, SLU detects pesticides by sound | #043

Weyerhaeuser adopts NFA harvester AI, Södra closes venture arm Södra Ädla | #042

Mellanskog Skogstorget hits 25% of clearing, Nordic BioPower starts biochar | #040

AirForestry drone completes autonomous harvest, Purdue AI maps 280M city trees | #034

SLU flies Europe's first hyperspectral lidar drone, AirForestry names new CEO | #022

Södra and Terra Labs AI decision support, Vinnova funds Skogforsk biocredits | #021

Terra Labs deep dive, AI stand delineation and satellite forest inventory | #010

Mid Sweden University 5G drone forest machines, Ecotype raises for Skogshubben | #008

SonicFlora ultrasonic plant stress AI, a case for tree nursery monitoring | #004

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