Land and Carbon

What Land and Carbon does

Land and Carbon, Inc. is a private climate solutions company that restores degraded lands to generate verified soil carbon credits for the voluntary carbon market. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Jackson, Wyoming (incorporated in Delaware), the company partners with ranchers, farmers, and government land agencies to implement nature-based carbon sequestration projects on underutilized and degraded acreage. The addressable opportunity the company cites exceeds 100 million acres in North America, grounded in the widely reported statistic that 40% of the Earth's land is degraded.

The company's core offering combines proven regenerative agriculture practices with site-specific innovative technologies in a "combinatory approach" tailored to each property's conditions. Its proprietary Innovation Sites™—trademarked 5-20 acre in-situ test plots—allow validation of different seed mixes, soil amendments, and management practices before broader deployment. Land and Carbon uses meter-deep soil sampling and a comprehensive Measurement, Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) framework designed to exceed registry requirements, claiming to generate 2X the high-quality carbon credits per acre relative to single-method approaches.

Land and Carbon operates three commercial engagement models: a Customer Royalty Option (landowners receive a percentage of gross carbon credit revenue with zero out-of-pocket cost), a Collaboration with Carry Customer Option (higher landowner share with cost sharing), and a fee-based Service Customer Option for corporate net-zero buyers. The company also serves as a Qualified Project Developer (QPD) for government land boards—its first material contract being a 2025 grassland carbon ecosystem services production lease with the Colorado State Land Board covering approximately 500 acres in Alamosa County, under which the Board receives 10% of gross carbon credit revenue. Founded by David Lawrence, PhD (former Shell EVP and Salk Institute executive director), the company has disclosed $1.54M in total funding and operates with 11-50 employees.

Name

Land and Carbon

Legal name

Land and Carbon, Inc.

Website

https://landandcarbon.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Land and Carbon restores degraded lands using science-driven regenerative practices and site-specific innovative technologies to generate verified soil carbon credits, serving ranchers, government land agencies, and corporate net-zero buyers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nature-Based Carbon Solutions and Land Restoration Services

NAICS

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

SIC

Forestry (800)

akta.pro primary industry

Regenerative Agriculture & Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) (EUABABAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Wetlands, Peatlands & Mangrove Restoration (Blue Carbon Restoration) (EUABABAG), Soil & Biomass Carbon Measurement (Soil Sampling, Forest Inventory, Blue Carbon) (EUABACAH)

Keywords

• Nature-based carbon solutions
• Land restoration services
• Voluntary carbon credits
• Regenerative agriculture
• Soil carbon sequestration

Headquarters

HQ city

Jackson

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Carbon Credit Sales - Customer Royalty Option: Landowners receive a percentage of gross revenue from carbon credit sales with no costs deducted prior to applying their percentage. Land and Carbon bears all upfront costs and operational expenses. Revenue shared from the sale of verified soil carbon credits issued through carbon registries.
2. Carbon Credit Sales - Collaboration with Carry Customer Option: Land and Carbon covers early capital and operational expenses with cost sharing after early years. Landowner receives a higher percentage of carbon credits and revenue compared to the Customer Royalty option due to their contribution of costs.
3. Fee-based Service Model - Service Customer Option: Turn-key, soup-to-nuts service for companies striving for net-zero. Fee-based model where the customer receives the highest percentage of credits. Customer pays for project development and implementation services.
4. Government Partnership Revenue: Partnership with Colorado State Land Board generates 10% of gross revenue from carbon credit sales going to the Board, with Land and Carbon bearing upfront costs and retaining the remainder.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Land and Carbon restores degraded lands through a science-driven, combinatory nature-based approach combining regenerative agriculture, soil amendments, water management, and innovative technologies to sequester CO2 in soils. It generates high-quality, high-integrity voluntary carbon credits using meter-deep soil sampling and rigorous MRV, then shares revenue with landowners and public land agencies. Customers engage via three models: zero-cost Customer Royalty, cost-sharing Collaboration with Carry, or fee-based Service Customer (turn-key) options for corporate net-zero buyers.

Product overview

Land and Carbon is a science-driven nature-based carbon solutions company offering a unified platform of land restoration and carbon credit generation services. The core offering combines degraded land restoration with carbon sequestration, using a combinatory approach that integrates regenerative agriculture, soil amendments, invasive species removal, water management, and innovative technologies. The company provides three customer-facing service models (Customer Royalty Option, Collaboration with Carry Customer Option, and Service Customer Option) that share carbon credit revenue with landowners. Key product features include Innovation Sites™—small-scale in-situ test plots for validating site-specific practices—and comprehensive MRV (measurement, monitoring, reporting, and verification) services that generate high-quality soil carbon credits for the voluntary carbon market.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Nature-Based Carbon Solutions End-to-end science-driven nature-based carbon solutions that restore degraded lands and capture CO2 through combinatory regenerative agriculture practices, soil amendments, and targeted technologies, generating verified soil carbon credits for the voluntary market.
• Land Restoration Services Full-cycle degraded land restoration services including site assessment, baseline studies, tailored additionality design, regenerative practices implementation, monitoring, and verification for landowners, ranchers, farmers, and government land agencies.
• Carbon Credit Generation Generation of high-quality, high-integrity soil carbon credits for the voluntary carbon market using meter-deep soil sampling, statistically valid baseline and carbon accrual measurements, and comprehensive MRV designed to exceed registry requirements.
• Government Land Board Partnership Program (Qualified Project Developer Services) Qualified Project Developer (QPD) services for state land boards and government agencies, providing carbon sequestration project development on public trust lands via lease agreements and ecosystem services production arrangements, with revenue share to the public agency.
• Customer Royalty Option Revenue-sharing engagement model for land and surface rights owners where the landowner receives a percentage of gross carbon credit sales revenue with no costs deducted; Land and Carbon bears all cost risk and there are no out-of-pocket payments by the landowner.
• Collaboration with Carry Customer Option Revenue-sharing engagement model where Land and Carbon covers early capital and operational expenses with cost sharing after early years; landowner receives a higher percentage of carbon credits and revenue and may contribute resources such as labor or equipment to adjust their share.
• Service Customer Option (Fee-Based Turn-Key Service for Net-Zero Buyers) Fee-based turn-key, soup-to-nuts service for companies striving for net-zero where the customer receives the highest percentage of credits, covering all aspects of project development, implementation, monitoring, and verification for corporate buyers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 40% water savings through cocoon irrigation technology (from related FAO project context)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Colorado State Land BoardcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 September 2025Land and Carbon was designated as a Qualified Project Developer (QPD) and entered into a Grassland Carbon Ecosystem Services Production Lease (ES 117611) with the Colorado State Land Board. The partnership covers approximately 500 acres of degraded state trust land in Alamosa County for revegetation with native grasses, forbs, and legumes. The project will store soil organic carbon, generate verified carbon credits for the voluntary market, and gradually restore the site to support regenerative grazing. The State Land Board receives 10% of gross revenue from carbon credit sales while Land and Carbon bears all upfront costs.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Indigo Ag: Indigo Ag operates the Carbon by Indigo program, generating agricultural soil carbon credits from working farmland using regenerative practices — directly comparable to Land and Carbon's regenerative-agriculture credit model. Both companies serve farmers and corporate credit buyers and depend on soil MRV.
• Nori: Nori is a voluntary carbon marketplace specializing in soil carbon removal credits from regenerative agriculture. It serves the same supply (regenerative ag producers) and demand (corporate net-zero buyers) sides of Land and Carbon's market.
• CIBO Technologies: CIBO Technologies runs a regenerative agriculture carbon credit program using remote sensing and biogeochemical modeling to verify soil carbon outcomes across U.S. farmland. It directly competes with Land and Carbon in monetizing regenerative practices into voluntary carbon credits.
• Soil Capital: Soil Capital pays European farmers for regenerative practices and sells the resulting soil carbon credits to corporate buyers. It mirrors Land and Carbon's revenue-share-to-landowner model in a different geography.
• Grassroots Carbon: Grassroots Carbon (a Soil Health Institute-aligned program) focuses specifically on generating soil carbon credits from U.S. rangelands and grasslands — a near-identical target landscape to Land and Carbon's first Colorado grassland project.

Broad incumbents

• Pachama: Pachama is a forest-carbon focused digital marketplace for nature-based credits that sells to corporate net-zero buyers — the same demand-side buyers Land and Carbon targets, but with a portfolio broader than soil carbon.
• Bayer Carbon Program: Bayer's Carbon Program incentivizes U.S. and Brazilian growers to adopt regenerative practices and sell the resulting carbon credits via its platform. As an ag-input incumbent, Bayer competes for the same regenerative-grower supply base Land and Carbon targets.
• Cargill RegenConnect: Cargill's RegenConnect program connects North American farmers practicing regenerative agriculture to corporate credit buyers, including its own supply-chain decarbonization goals. It is an incumbent with far greater scale and farmer relationships than Land and Carbon.

Others

• Patch: Patch is an API-driven carbon credit infrastructure provider that helps businesses purchase verified credits across categories including soil carbon. It is an ecosystem enabler rather than a project developer, but the same corporate buyers it serves are Land and Carbon's customers.

Emerging players

• Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC): ESMC is a non-profit developing protocols and markets for agricultural ecosystem services credits including soil carbon. It is a partial overlap — methodology developer and emerging program operator with adjacent land-management focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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