3Bee

What 3Bee does

3Bee is an Italy-based Nature-Tech company founded in 2017 that builds and operates biodiversity monitoring and regeneration infrastructure for European enterprises. Its integrated technology stack combines proprietary IoT hardware (Hive-Tech beehive sensors, Spectrum bioacoustic sensors, and Polly X pollinator shelters with air-quality sensing), the Flora neural network co-developed with the European Space Agency for satellite-based ecosystem analysis, and the Birdy audio recognition model, all unified through the XNatura platform and exposed via the Digital Oasis dashboard for ESG reporting aligned with ESRS, GRI, SASB, TNFD, and SBTN frameworks. The Element-E protocol, validated by Bureau Veritas and selected by the European Union, allows the company to issue certified biodiversity credits for nature-based offsetting across Italy, France, Germany, and Spain.

3Bee sells primarily to enterprise customers through a consultative field-sales motion, with named clients including Leonardo, DHL, Generali, ESA, Bracco, Edison Next, RWE, Enel, Statkraft, Mutti, Findus, Toyota, Phoenix Contact, Credit Agricole, and Comoli Ferrari. Its service lines include Corporate Hive and Corporate Oasis adoption programs, BeEnergy agrivoltaic solutions for renewables developers, biodiversity assessment consulting, and the 3Bee Academy training platform, supplemented by a standardized e-commerce storefront for corporate gifts and small adoptions. Revenue is generated through a mix of recurring monitoring subscriptions, IoT hardware sales, multi-year on-site regeneration projects, professional services for biodiversity assessments, and corporate gift transactions, with growing emphasis on certified biodiversity credits as a new monetization vector tied to EU regulatory developments.

Name

3Bee

Legal name

3Bee

Website

https://3bee.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

3Bee is an Italy-based Nature-Tech company providing European enterprises with proprietary IoT sensors, satellite AI, and bioacoustic monitoring to measure, regenerate, and certify biodiversity across corporate sites and energy projects.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Biodiversity Monitoring Services

NAICS

Apiculture (11291), Apiculture (112910), Support Activities for Animal Production (115210)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700), Agricultural Prod-Livestock & Animal Specialties (200)

akta.pro primary industry

Beekeeping Equipment Manufacturing & Supply (Hives, Frames, Tools, PPE) (AFAEAHAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Bee Health Management & Treatments (Mite/Disease Control Products & Services) (AFAEAHAK), Beekeeping Training, Education & Advisory Services (AFAEAHAO)

Keywords

• Biodiversity monitoring services
• ESG reporting platforms
• Nature tech solutions
• Pollinator conservation services
• Agrivoltaic environmental monitoring

Headquarters

HQ city

Fino Mornasco

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Biodiversity Monitoring Services: Recurring monitoring services for corporate sites including sensor installation, data collection, analysis, and ESG reporting. Subscription-based model with annual contracts.
2. Corporate Hive Adoption: Companies adopt tech-enabled beehives (remote or on-site) with IoT monitoring. One-time purchase plus ongoing service fees for monitoring and reporting.
3. Corporate Oasis Adoption: Companies adopt nectar-producing oases with trees, plants, and pollinator habitats. Includes monitoring, certificates, and digital access to virtual oasis.
4. Corporate Gifts: Sustainable corporate gifts including bee adoptions, tree plantings, and biodiversity packages. One-time purchases for gifting purposes.
5. Biodiversity Assessment: Professional environmental analysis services for industrial, urban, agricultural, energy, and natural park sites. Compliance with ESRS, GRI, SASB standards.
6. BeEnergy Agrivoltaics: Comprehensive agrivoltaic and energy site biodiversity solutions including monitoring, land regeneration, and ESG reporting for solar and wind parks.
7. Academy Training: ESG training programs, webinars, sustainability courses, and team building experiences for corporate employees and sustainability managers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

3Bee designs, deploys, and operates biodiversity monitoring and habitat regeneration solutions for enterprises using proprietary IoT sensors (Hive-Tech, Spectrum, Polly-X), a satellite neural network (Flora) developed with ESA, and the XNatura AI-powered platform. Service offerings include Corporate Hive adoption, Corporate Oasis regeneration, Corporate GreenSpace with pollinator refuges, BeEnergy agrivoltaic compliance projects, 3Bee Academy ESG training, Adopt-a-School programs, and the Element-E certified biodiversity credits protocol. The company sells standardized products (bee/tree/Polly-X adoptions and training) via its website alongside custom enterprise projects.

Product overview

3Bee operates as a Nature Tech company offering an integrated platform for biodiversity monitoring, regeneration, and certification. The core product is the XNatura Platform, which combines multiple proprietary technologies (Hive-Tech IoT beehives, Spectrum bioacoustic sensors, Polly X pollinator shelters, Flora satellite neural networks) with AI-powered analysis for professional environmental assessment. The company provides modular service offerings including Corporate Hive (beehive adoption), Corporate Oasis (habitat regeneration), Corporate GreenSpace (pollinator refuges), Beenergy (agrivoltaics), 3Bee Academy (ESG training), and Corporate Gifts. The Biodiversa mobile app enables citizen science participation. The Element-E Protocol supports certified biodiversity credits. All solutions are designed for ESG compliance (ESRS, GRI, SASB, CSRD) with annual reporting and real-time Digital Oasis monitoring dashboards.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• XNatura: Professional environmental analysis platform and AI environmental consultant for biodiversity monitoring
• Biodiversa
• HiveTech
• Spectrum
• Polly-X
• Flora
• BeEnergy
• 3Bee Academy

Products and services

• XNatura Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• 2 billion+ pollinators protected across all projects
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers35 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability6 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core, key and minor.

• European UnionflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 November 2023Selected by EU to develop first certified biodiversity credits using Element-E protocol. Project applies methodology to 250 sites across Italy, France, Germany, and Spain. Part of EU effort to promote biodiversity protection and environmental transparency.
• ESA (European Space Agency)coreTechnology or IntegrationCollaboration with ESA to develop Flora, a neural network system that analyzes satellite images to evaluate plant diversity and potential biodiversity. ESA collaboration enables comparative analysis of terrain within 5-10-15km radius from client sites using advanced satellite imagery.
• Bureau VeritascoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerXNatura methodology verified by Bureau Veritas for compliance with international standards including ESRS, GRI, SASB, TNFD, and SBTN frameworks. Provides third-party validation of 3Bee's biodiversity monitoring approach.
• GSE (Gestore dei Servizi Energetici)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCompliance with GSE Operating Rules for agrivoltaic incentives requiring biodiversity monitoring data. BeEnergy projects provide required data for PNRR incentive compliance.
• CREA (Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura)keyStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on agrivoltaics guidelines development. MASE guidelines with CREA, ENEA and GSE define requirements for advanced agrivoltaics including agricultural continuity and impact monitoring.
• ENEAkeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership in developing agrivoltaics guidelines and advanced monitoring methodologies for biodiversity assessment in energy installations.
• MASE (Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Sicurezza Energetica)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCompliance with MASE guidelines for advanced agrivoltaics. Guidelines define requirements including agricultural continuity and biodiversity impact monitoring for energy sector projects.
• Scuola Superiore Sant'AnnakeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for educational content in CSR Oasis. Professors contribute to video courses on sustainability reporting, LCA methodology, biodiversity standards (GRI 101, ESRS E4).
• Catholic University of the Sacred HeartkeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic collaboration for sustainability education. Prof. Andrea Lionzo contributes to CSR Oasis webinars on CSRD and ESRS integration into corporate sustainability reports.
• University of TurinkeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration with University of Turin on biodiversity monitoring technologies and regenerative agriculture methodologies.
• University of FlorencekeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for research on biodiversity monitoring and nature regeneration technologies.
• University of NapleskeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration for biodiversity monitoring and environmental impact assessment methodologies.
• CNR (National Research Council of Italy)keyStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Italy's national research council for scientific research on biodiversity conservation and monitoring technologies.
• Copernicus ProgrammecoreTechnology or IntegrationUtilization of Copernicus satellite data for biodiversity monitoring and ecosystem analysis. Enables large-scale satellite imagery for Flora neural network analysis.
• CNC MediaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with CNC Media for sustainability content and communication. Francesco Brocca, Managing Director of CNC Media, contributes to CSR Oasis educational content.

Scale indicators33 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Apic.ai: Apic.ai provides AI-powered beekeeping monitoring and analytics for hobbyist and commercial beekeepers. It is a niche emerging peer to 3Bee's Hive-Tech and biodiversity-from-pollinators thesis, though currently more focused on beekeeper productivity than corporate ESG use cases.
• Earthshot Labs: Earthshot Labs is a nature-based solutions and monitoring company building tooling for biodiversity project developers and credit issuers. It is an emerging competitor with partial overlap to 3Bee's project-level biodiversity assessment and credit generation work.

Direct peers

• Pachama: Pachama uses satellite imagery and AI to verify carbon and nature-based credits. It is a direct peer in biodiversity/carbon credit issuance with remote sensing — overlapping with 3Bee's Element-E protocol and Flora satellite neural network, and increasingly competing in nature-credit markets.
• NCX (Natural Capital Exchange): NCX operates a marketplace for nature-based biodiversity credits issued by landowners. It competes with 3Bee's emerging Element-E biodiversity credit protocol for the same corporate buyers seeking nature-based offsets, though NCX focuses on forestry credits rather than pollinator/bioacoustic assets.
• BeeHero: BeeHero provides precision IoT-based beehive monitoring and pollination services for commercial beekeepers and growers. It is the closest direct peer to 3Bee's Hive-Tech product line and corporate hive adoption business, with overlap in sensor hardware, AI analytics, and enterprise (agriculture) customer base.
• Watershed: Watershed is an enterprise sustainability platform for carbon accounting and ESG reporting, now expanding into nature/biodiversity. It directly competes with 3Bee's XNatura platform for the same corporate sustainability buyers (CSRD/ESRS-driven) and offers a software-only alternative to 3Bee's hardware-plus-services model.
• Sylvera: Sylvera provides independent ratings and monitoring of carbon and nature-based credits using satellite data. It is a peer in nature-credit verification/analytics, with overlap to 3Bee's monitoring and credit-rating ambitions, particularly as Sylvera expands into biodiversity credit ratings.

Broad incumbents

• Persefoni: Persefoni is a leading climate management and carbon accounting platform for enterprises. While currently focused on carbon, it serves the same C-suite and sustainability-manager buyer as 3Bee for ESG reporting and could expand into biodiversity as a broad incumbent ESG data platform.
• Clarity AI: Clarity AI is a sustainability analytics platform used by enterprises and asset managers for ESG reporting. It competes with 3Bee in the corporate ESG reporting stack and offers broad biodiversity/nature modules, making it a broad incumbent alternative to XNatura for enterprise sustainability teams.
• IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite: IBM's Environmental Intelligence Suite offers enterprise-scale environmental monitoring including biodiversity, weather, and ESG analytics. It is a broad incumbent competing for the same enterprise sustainability budget as 3Bee, particularly with multinational corporates like those in 3Bee's customer base (e.g., DHL).

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@3bee_naturetech/podcasts
• Xx.com/3beehivetech
• Facebookfacebook.com/3Bee.eu

Compliance9 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors6 records

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M&A

Investments

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