Verna raises $4M to help organisations make nature recovery happen
The investment round, led by NAP and Übermorgen, will help us scale our software — including new AI capabilities — so teams can plan, implement, and monitor nature recovery with confidence.
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We have announced today that Verna has raised $4M to meet growing global demand for software that helps organisations take verifiable action on nature — not just identify and report risks and impacts.
Nature recovery is quickly becoming a business resilience priority. As more organisations invest in nature programmes, a familiar challenge shows up: turning ambition and funding into delivery can be painfully hard. Teams have to make difficult decisions on the basis of complex data and analysis, and track delivery over decades.
Turning nature investment into delivery
Over $200B per year is being allocated to nature investment, and this is expected to double by 2030. That investment only matters if projects are delivered well: planned robustly, implemented consistently, and monitored over time.
That’s exactly what Verna exists to support. Our software helps teams to bring together nature data, make complex decisions, and create a shared source of truth over long time horizons.
Momentum so far
Our software has seen rapid uptake. Over 3,000 users across 100+ organisations now use Mycelia to plan, implement, and monitor nature recovery programmes.
One reason adoption has been strong is our focus. We’re not trying to be “yet another nature data source”. Instead, we’re building the tools that help teams to make use of all the data they can already access — integrating it, understanding it, and turning it into decisions and long-term delivery.
Our initial focus has been on projects based on Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), a UK-born methodology that’s now spreading across sectors and countries. Increasingly, we're building tools that go beyond this approach.
What this funding enables
The investors in this funding round have a strong history of support for sustainability, including round leaders NAP (Berlin) and Übermorgen Ventures (Zurich), plus UK funds including Vanneck, Love Ventures, Concrete Ventures, and Climate VC.
We’ll use the funding to:
- Expand our software's capabilities - including giving users access to new AI-powered tools for nature recovery.
- Support our existing customers - making sure they have the very latest capabilities at their fingertips.
- Help more sectors and geographies - as demand grows across business types and countries.
As our Co-CEO Rafi Cohen put it:
“As threats to the natural world become more urgent, any organisation dependent on land — whether directly or through their supply chain — has a business resilience need to invest in nature recovery.
“At Verna, every week we receive inbound requests for help from businesses and public bodies across the UK, Europe, the US, and further afield. This fresh investment will enable us to deploy the latest technology, including AI, to meet that demand.”
What our supporters are saying
Tom Butterworth, Director for Nature at Arup and author of the construction industry Biodiversity Net Gain good practice guide, said:
“Businesses across the world are recognising that nature isn’t just about regulatory compliance and reporting – repairing nature is a core driver of business resilience and growth.
“Measuring and improving biodiversity is even more complex than carbon. Businesses won’t be able to meet their nature goals without technology tailored to this challenge.”
Claude Ritter, Managing Partner at NAP, said:
“Nature recovery is a large-scale data problem, spanning ecosystems, timescales, and uncertainty. Verna’s technology and team bridge ecology and computation to make that complexity not just measurable, but actionable.”
Jonas Hornung, investor at Übermorgen, said:
“Verna demonstrates a strong, mission-led focus on delivering measurable customer outcomes rather than driving feature-led adoption.
“The platform is intentionally data-agnostic, allowing users to integrate, compare and operationalise heterogeneous data sources according to their relevance to specific decision workflows, rather than privileging any single dataset or provider. This architectural choice positions Verna as an enabling infrastructure layer rather than a narrow point solution.
“The team also shows a clear understanding of the long time horizons and multi-stakeholder coordination required for effective nature recovery, designing collaboration and continuity into the product to support use cases that span organisations and decades.”
Want to talk?
If you’re working on a nature recovery programme — in the public sector or industry — we’d love to hear what you’re trying to achieve, and what’s getting in the way.
You can contact us on info@verna.earth.
