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ReSeed

ReSeed offers a tech-enabled platform, addressing the exclusion of smallholder farmers from carbon markets by simplifying participation and providing agricultural support services. They focus on carbon sequestration through regenerative and traditional farming practices, using AI and satellite data to measure and verify carbon storage. ReSeed’s innovative solution quickly brings carbon credits to market, ensuring fair revenue sharing and eliminating upfront costs for farmers. This approach has doubled household incomes for farmers like Sandra Braga and supports over 8,700 households, with a wide-reaching impact in a market where smallholder farmers are often overlooked.
2022
2-10
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States

https://www.reseed.farm/

AgricultureCarbon CaptureFarmingSustainability
Innovation
Investment Funding
People
Products
Awards and Recognitions
M&A and Collabs
News

Innovation

Industry Problem

ReSeed addresses the exclusion of smallholder farmers from carbon credit markets due to high costs and complexity, and aims to improve their livelihoods while promoting regenerative farming to combat climate change.

R&D Focus

ReSeed focuses its research and development on **carbon sequestration through regenerative and traditional farming practices** with a strong emphasis on **smallholder farmers**. Their niche segment involves creating an innovative, technology-driven platform that measures, verifies, and markets **farm-based carbon credits** by quantifying carbon stored in soil and vegetation on generational farms. They develop AI-powered tools and protocols to ensure accurate carbon measurement, enabling farmers worldwide to participate easily and fairly in carbon markets, improving livelihoods while combating climate change.

Innovative Solution

ReSeed solves the exclusion of smallholder farmers from carbon markets by offering a tech-enabled platform that simplifies participation, requiring only 3-10 hours of work annually. They measure and verify carbon stored on farms using AI and satellite data, quickly bring carbon credits to market within 6-12 months, and pay farmers immediately when credits are sold. Their model ensures fair revenue sharing, no upfront costs, and provides farmers with agricultural support services, significantly boosting household incomes while promoting regenerative farming and climate action.

Solution Effectiveness

ReSeed has doubled household incomes for farmers such as Sandra Braga by enabling them to sell carbon credits, with her farm storing 1,000 metric tons of carbon. The platform supports over 8,700 households and 38,400 family members across diverse crops, demonstrating its wide-reaching impact. By paying farmers 50% of gross carbon credit revenues and eliminating upfront costs, ReSeed effectively empowers smallholder farmers globally, addressing a market where less than 1% of carbon credits currently come from farmers.

Investment Funding

Last Funding Stage

Seed

Total Funding Amount

$4.6M

Last Funding Amount

$4.6M

Last Funding Date

September, 2023

Startup Stage

Seed

Lead Investors

One Small Planet, Thorn Partners, Baratunde Thurston, Elizabeth Stewart

People

Founders

  • Joshua Knauer
  • Vasco van Roosmalen
  • Zak Zaidman

Board Members

CEO

Products

Product

– ReSeed Farmer App – Used by farmers to enter data about their land, crops, and farming practices to track carbon storage and impact. – Carbon Measurement & Verification (MRV) Protocols – Technology and processes to accurately measure and verify carbon stored in soil and vegetation on farms. – AI-Powered Data Platform – Analyzes thousands of data points from farms, satellites, and other sources to validate carbon credits. – Farm-Based Carbon Credits – Marketed carbon credits generated from verified carbon sequestration on smallholder farms, sold to global customers. – Farmer Support Services – Includes regenerative/traditional farming consultation, technical support, financial services, and market access facilitation. – Customer Review – “My family has been caring for this land for 300 years and payments from RESEED will be life-changing and allow us to stay on the land for future generations.”

Star Product

Farm-Based Carbon Credits is the core of ReSeed’s impact, directly linking smallholder farmers to global carbon markets. By accurately measuring and verifying carbon stored on farms, these credits create a new, fair revenue stream for farmers, doubling their household incomes while driving large-scale climate change mitigation through regenerative agriculture. This unique blend of environmental impact and social empowerment makes it their standout offering.

Demo Product or Complete Product?

ReSeed’s first product was its Farmer App, launched in 2023 in partnership with FoodChain ID. This app enables smallholder farmers to collect and input data about their land, crops, and farming practices, forming the foundation for measuring and verifying carbon sequestration. By integrating satellite imagery and AI analysis, ReSeed’s platform then calculates the carbon stored in soil and vegetation, allowing farmers to generate and sell carbon credits.

Awards and Recognitions

Media Apperance

– Yahoo Finance – Puck Magazine – International Business Times – TechBullion – Food Ingredients – The Brave New Earth Podcast.

M&A and Collabs

Collab

ReSeed collaborated with the Brazilian nonprofit ECAM in 2024 to bring carbon credits from smallholder farmers to the market. This collaboration aims to reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest by supporting 3.9 million Brazilian smallholder farmers, enabling them to earn from regenerative farming practices rather than deforestation.

Collab

In collaboration with the Nigerian nonprofit CREACC-NG since 2023, ReSeed aims to unlock climate financing for Nigeria’s 38 million smallholder farmers. The partnership focuses on increasing farmers’ incomes by 40–80% through the sale of carbon credits derived from regenerative farming practices.

Project Queries

Deepak Syal (Director)

+91-8297806050
Chakshu Kalra (Director)
+91-9878481471
United States
+1-202-455-5058
Singapore
+65 84306322