Landseed Receives $400K Social-Impact Investment

The investment from the Richard King Mellon Foundation increases Landseed’s total funding to $500,000 and will help accelerate the company’s growth strategy. The first part of this strategy is the Earth Pulse Node, an AI-powered sensor system that generates revenue through hardware sales and leasing.

The second part is Earth Credits, a new type of environmental asset created from verified ecological data and linked to a Nature Rights Deed. The third part is Earth Signals, a data service that provides environmental information to industries such as insurance, capital markets, corporate reporting, and conservation research.

Landseed’s business model is built around the idea of turning environmental measurements into market value. Each sensor cluster it deploys collects data that can be used to create Earth Credits and support the Earth Signals data service. As more sensors are installed, more data is generated, increasing the value of both products and supporting further growth.

The company focuses only on verification and data generation. It owns and operates the monitoring infrastructure, records Nature Rights Deeds, creates and registers Earth Credits and licenses Earth Signals data. However, it does not trade Earth Credits, operate an exchange or manage investment funds.

At the core of Landseed’s mission is a simple question: “What would Earth do?” This idea guides the company’s approach to building sensors, measuring environmental impact, and delivering data. Its goal is to create the most accurate and transparent view of ecological conditions possible and provide that information to the people, organizations, and institutions that can use it to make better decisions, and help protect the environment.

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"For all of our core stakeholders, the through-line is the same," said Greg Curtis. "This is not another offset. It is a new commodity class — grounded in property law and ecological science — designed to make the value of healthy land visible, verifiable, and financially useful. The measurement layer is what's been missing, and it's what we're building."

"The carbon market was built to trade testimony about carbon, not carbon," said Alex Roessner. "Every market in valuable things has an independent assay office. Gold has had one since 1300. Ecological markets have never had one. That’s what we’re building."

About Landseed

Founded by Greg Curtis and Alex Roessner, Landseed is a public benefit corporation that develops measurement solutions for nature based markets. Its business model includes Earth Pulse Node sensor hardware, Earth Credits created from verified environmental measurements, and linked to Nature Rights Deeds and Earth Signals, a structured ecological data service used across multiple industries.

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