LGND AI, a company innovating how people and AI interact with Earth data, announced it has raised $9 million in financing. The round was led by Javelin Venture Partners, with participation from several other firms and notable angel investors, including John Hanke (founder of Keyhole/Google Maps). Noah Doyle of Javelin will join LGND’s board.
LGND’s platform, built on geographic embeddings, aims to make complex and expensive Earth data more accessible for various applications, from climate adaptation to defense. Unlike traditional methods, LGND’s geo-embeddings factory creates scalable and real-time datasets that are easily queried and deployed, significantly reducing costs and complexity for industries such as insurance, finance, and logistics.
How the funding will be used: The new funding will support the launch of a no-code geospatial app, an enterprise solution, and expanded developer access via SDKs and APIs, enabling faster, more adaptable Earth data analysis for a broader range of users.
KEY QUOTES:
“Our mission is to make Earth data universally accessible and actionable through AI. We’re making Earth understandable to people—and to AI.”
Nathaniel Manning, CEO and cofounder of LGND
“We believe geographic embeddings are the new first order data object for geospatial information, much like map tiles were two decades ago. LGND is building the infrastructure to create, tune, store, and serve these embeddings at scale.”
Dan Hammer, cofounder and Chief Product Officer
“This shift is not incremental, but revolutionary. It requires rebuilding the entire ecosystem of Earth observation. By front-loading the undifferentiated heavy compute, embeddings change the way we interact with Earth data and force us to rethink previous limitations.”
Bruno Sánchez–Andrade Nuño, LGND’s Chief Science Officer and cofounder
