Explorer.land

Name

Explorer.land

Website

https://explorer.land

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nature-based Projects Marketplace

NAICS

Support Activities for Forestry (1153), Timber Tract Operations (11311)

SIC

Forestry (800), Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Conservation Easements & Land Trust Services (AFAMAMAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Timberland Asset Management (Institutional/Private) (AFAMAKAA), Forest Inventory, Mapping & Monitoring (GIS/Remote Sensing/MRV) (IMAMAJAB)

Keywords

• Conservation funding marketplace
• Carbon credit platform
• Regenerative agriculture funding
• Biodiversity credit trading
• Impact investing platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Krefeld

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Investment facilitation: Connecting funders with nature-based projects for investment opportunities in conservation, ecosystem restoration, and regenerative agriculture projects worldwide.
2. Sponsorship services: Facilitating sponsorships for impactful nature-based projects.
3. Carbon and biodiversity credits: Platform enabling acquisition of carbon and biodiversity credits from verified nature-based projects.
4. Donation processing: Enabling donors to support nature-based projects through direct contributions.

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Explorer.land operates a global online marketplace that connects nature-based project developers (conservation, ecosystem restoration, regenerative agriculture) with funders. The platform lets users discover and connect with hundreds of projects worldwide and enables funding flows through investments, sponsorships, donations, and the acquisition of carbon and biodiversity credits. It does not deploy its own capital or run the projects; it functions as the discovery and transaction-routing layer between project developers and impact funders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Explorer.land Platform

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• OpenForestscoreOthersOpenForests is the parent company/operator of explorer.land, providing the technology platform for nature-based project discovery and funding. OpenForests specializes in forest and nature-based project platforms, with explorer.land serving as their consumer-facing marketplace for conservation, restoration, and regenerative agriculture projects globally.

Scale indicators1 record

Emerging players

• Mast Reforestation: Reforestation project developer and platform combining seedling supply, project management, and carbon credit sales — overlapping with Explorer.land's reforestation and ecosystem restoration project surface area.
• Sylvera: Carbon credit ratings and analytics provider that assesses nature-based projects — comparable in serving the same buyer side (corporates/investors evaluating nature-based credits) and in building project-quality data layers.

Direct peers

• Pachama: Marketplace platform connecting carbon credit buyers with verified nature-based forestry and conservation projects, with project profiles and remote sensing-based MRV — directly comparable in business model (two-sided project/funder marketplace) and asset class (nature-based credits).
• Cloverly: Carbon offset API and marketplace enabling businesses to fund verified nature-based and engineered carbon projects, including reforestation and conservation — overlapping in marketplace structure and nature-based project focus.
• NCX (now part of Anew Climate): Nature-based carbon credit platform connecting small forest landowners with corporate buyers via aggregated project offerings — closely comparable in nature-based asset class and marketplace-style aggregation.
• Patch (by Block): Carbon credit marketplace/API that aggregates vetted nature-based and tech-based removal projects for corporate buyers, with a similar two-sided platform model linking project developers to funders via transaction fees.
• Boomitra: Carbon credit platform focused on regenerative agriculture and nature-based soil carbon projects, connecting farmers/project developers with corporate credit buyers — directly comparable in regenerative-agriculture focus and marketplace model.

Others

• Verra: Operates the leading global carbon credit standard registry (VCS), which certifies the nature-based projects Explorer.land monetizes; included as an enabling standards body adjacent to the platform's value chain.
• OpenForests: Parent/affiliated operator of Explorer.land that builds forest and nature-based project technology platforms; included as the directly connected ecosystem participant rather than a true peer.

Broad incumbents

• South Pole: Large climate-solutions provider that develops, sources, and sells carbon credits from forestry, agriculture, and conservation projects globally — overlapping in nature-based credit origination and corporate buyer relationships, though it operates as a developer/broker rather than a pure marketplace.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ExplorerLand
• Facebookfacebook.com/explorer.land
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/openforests

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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