The Life Map Foundation

What The Life Map Foundation does

The Life Map Foundation is a privately held nonprofit organization that builds an interactive mapping platform delivering holistic and progressive information to sustain life on Earth. Its core product, The Life Map, surfaces data across 'Components that Sustain Life' — including climate, environment, health, education, and community — using interactive graphs, maps, formally endorsed data, and digital audit methodologies, with explicit alignment to UN Sustainable Development Goals for global, national, and local communities.

The product surface comprises four named offerings: The Life Map (core interactive platform), the Climate Component (SDG13) covering 12 metrics across air quality, tidal flooding, rainfall and soil moisture deficit, wind, and fire; the UK Proof of Concept, which tailored Life on Land information for each UK local community; and the Community Life Project, a collaborative initiative enabling community-contributed base information and metrics that are then reusable at no cost. The platform is delivered through an interactive web interface with no public app, API, or SDK, and is supported by marketing via website content, blog, and social channels (Facebook, X, Instagram).

The foundation is led by CEO Edward Darling (also Strategy and the Environment Lead) with a core team of approximately eight specialists covering industry/research, health, education, legal, finance, digital compliance, and AI ethics. Operationally, the organization is grant-funded; no commercial pricing, customer logos, or revenue figures are disclosed, and global reach is articulated but only the UK is documented as a delivered Proof of Concept. Strategic positioning is anchored in UN-affiliated bodies including the UN Action Plan for a Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age, the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability, and the UN Economic Commission for Europe Group of Experts on Risk Management.

Name

The Life Map Foundation

Legal name

The Life Map Foundation

Website

https://thelifemap.foundation

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Life Map Foundation is a nonprofit that builds an interactive mapping platform delivering holistic, progressive sustainability data aligned to UN Sustainable Development Goals for global, national, and local communities. It is grant-funded and run by a core team of approximately eight specialists.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sustainability Data Platform

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518210), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Information (51)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Climate Target-Setting, Transition Planning & Performance Management Platforms (EUABAEAF)

Keywords

• Sustainability data platform
• Environmental mapping systems
• Climate information tools
• UN SDG monitoring
• Life sustainment data

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Foundation/Grant Funding: The Life Map Foundation operates as a nonprofit organization working to sustain life on Earth. Revenue appears to come from foundation grants and donations rather than commercial product sales.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Life Map Foundation provides an interactive mapping platform that delivers holistic and progressive information to sustain life on Earth. The platform combines graphs, maps, formally endorsed data, and methodologies to enable communities to perform digital audits of life-sustainment components such as climate, water, and land.

Product overview

The Life Map Foundation offers The Life Map as its core product - a unified interactive mapping platform designed to provide crucial environmental information holistically and progressively to sustain life on Earth. The platform is structured around multiple aligned components including the Climate Component (SDG13) which delivers 12 climate metrics, the UK Proof of Concept demonstrating tailored Life on Land information for local communities, and the Community Life Project enabling collaborative metric creation. The system uses interactive graphs, maps, formally endorsed data, and digital audit methodologies to address UN Sustainable Development Goals at global, national, and local community levels.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Life Map An interactive mapping platform that delivers holistic, formally endorsed sustainability information to sustain life on Earth, using graphs, maps, and methodologies to enable digital audits across components such as climate, water, and land. It is intended for global, national, and local communities.

Quantifiable outcome

• Since 1970, over 60% of environmental resources required to sustain life have been destroyed, highlighting the critical need for The Life Map's information services.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• UN Action Plan for a Sustainable Planet in the Digital AgecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEdward Darling serves as Global stakeholder for the UN Action Plan for a Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age, representing the foundation's involvement in international sustainability initiatives.
• Coalition for Digital Environmental SustainabilitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEdward Darling is a member of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability, aligning The Life Map Foundation with global digital sustainability efforts.
• UN Economic Commission for Europe – Group of Experts on Risk ManagementcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMarkus Krebsz serves as a member of the UN Economic Commission for Europe – Group of Experts on Risk Management, providing expertise to the foundation.
• OneHiveminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMichaela Bonfield serves as Impact Lead at OneHive while also serving as Education SME for The Life Map Foundation.
• MentorverseminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProfessor Dhakshana Sivayoganathan serves as CEO and founder of Mentorverse while also serving as Health SME for The Life Map Foundation.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Position Green: Nordic ESG and climate data management software for enterprise and municipal sustainability reporting. Comparable as an emerging integrated sustainability platform with comparable target-setting and disclosure functionality.

Direct peers

• CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project): Global nonprofit that runs the world's leading environmental disclosure system for companies, cities, states and investors. Highly comparable as a nonprofit, SDG-aligned data platform mobilizing environmental information at scale.
• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI): Independent international standards organization for sustainability reporting. Comparable as a nonprofit providing globally endorsed sustainability disclosure data and methodologies, similar in mission and public-good structure to The Life Map.
• Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi): Nonprofit that defines and validates corporate climate target-setting methods. Comparable as a UN-aligned, methodology-driven climate target-setting organization serving global and national audiences.
• Climate Action Tracker: Independent scientific analysis that tracks government climate action against Paris Agreement targets. Comparable as a research/data platform delivering climate performance data and methodology-driven evaluation.

Broad incumbents

• Persefoni: Leading commercial climate management and accounting platform used by enterprises. Comparable as a SaaS platform delivering formalized climate metrics, but commercially operated and enterprise-focused versus The Life Map's nonprofit public-good model.
• Normative: Commercial carbon accounting engine delivering emissions insights for businesses. Comparable in delivering formalized climate metrics, but for paying enterprise customers rather than free public-good use.
• Watershed: Enterprise climate platform for measurement, reporting, and reduction. Comparable in providing audited, methodology-driven climate data products, though commercially run and tailored to large corporate buyers.
• Sweep: Commercial carbon and ESG data management platform with a network of sustainability professionals. Overlapping in scope (corporate climate data) but proprietary and SaaS-priced versus The Life Map's open nonprofit approach.
• South Pole Group: Global climate consultancy and solutions provider offering carbon data, target-setting, and advisory services. Comparable in delivering sustainability data and transition planning services across geographies.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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