Lord of the Trees, a New York-based ecosystem restoration company, raised $1.25M in Pre-Seed funding.
The round was led by Draper Associates.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and accelerate growth.
Led by CEO Aymeric Maudous, Lord of the Trees is a public benefit corporation with pending B-Corp certification that uses a combination of high technology (artificial intelligence, robotics, and drones) and Lo-Tek (Local Traditional Ecological Knowledge) to harmoniously regenerate the Earth’s damaged ecosystems. The company’s precision-planting drones are capable of scattering seeds on a vast scale – at a rate of about 400,000 seed pods in just 12 hours – cheaper and more efficiently than ever before. These proprietary seed pods contain a blend of plant nutrients that sustain optimum germination conditions, increasing the seeds’ chances of developing a healthy root system.
Lord of the Trees plans to tackle restoring blue carbon sources, like mangroves, tidal marshlands, and kelp forests first, as these environments are able to absorb 3-5x more carbon dioxide than regular forests. In fact, the company is currently proceeding with a drone replanting project of critically endangered Red Mangroves in Australia and will be conducting additional programs in Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, California, Mexico and Africa.
Lord of the Trees is working with government authorities, the mining sector, land owners, and the agricultural industry to restore biodiversity on a mass scale at a vastly reduced cost.
FinSMEs
30/03/2022