Five startups vying for exposure and support at Bloom 23 made rapid pitches for their tech to protect nature and boost biodiversity.
”We believe that we can help global companies meet their nature-positive goals, with environmental permitting as the market driver,” said Lee Lance, CEO of Ecobot. “We’re building the expert network data that we need to build better technology, enhanced by AI.”
Ecobot, a startup based in Asheville, North Carolina, seeks to close a gap in measuring biodiversity: It’s unrealistic to send 100,000 scientists into the field, but that many are already in the field collecting data for permitting purposes.
“But a permit is where data goes to die,” Lance said. “All of the water and soil and vegetation data that is gathered is either siloed with an organization or just simply lost.”
Ecobot has a “workforce enablement platform” that accelerates environmental permitting.
Its 250 customers include AECOM, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture.
