Verna announced it has raised $4 million to meet growing demand for software that helps organizations take verifiable action on nature recovery, as companies and public bodies move from nature risk reporting toward long-term delivery on the ground.
The company positions nature recovery as an emerging business resilience priority, particularly for organizations dependent on land directly or through supply chains. Verna says a key challenge is execution: nature programs require teams to translate complex ecological data into decisions, coordinate stakeholders, and track outcomes over decades.
Verna’s platform, Mycelia, is designed to serve as a system of record for planning, implementing, and monitoring nature recovery programs by integrating and operationalizing existing datasets rather than acting as another standalone data source. The company said Mycelia is now used by more than 3,000 users across 100-plus organizations.
Verna said its early focus has been on projects using Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), a UK-origin methodology now expanding across sectors and geographies, while the company increasingly builds tooling that goes beyond BNG-based workflows.
The funding round was led by NAP and Übermorgen Ventures, with participation from UK-based investors Vanneck, Love Ventures, Concrete Ventures, and Climate VC. Verna said the capital will be used to expand product capabilities, including new AI-powered tools, support existing customers, and broaden reach across additional sectors and countries.
KEY QUOTES:
“As threats to the natural world become more urgent, any organisation dependent on land — whether directly or through their supply chain — has a business resilience need to invest in nature recovery. This fresh investment will enable us to deploy the latest technology, including AI, to meet that demand.”
Rafi Cohen, Co-CEO, Verna
“Measuring and improving biodiversity is even more complex than carbon. Businesses won’t be able to meet their nature goals without technology tailored to this challenge.”
Tom Butterworth, Director for Nature, Arup
“Nature recovery is a large-scale data problem, spanning ecosystems, timescales, and uncertainty. Verna’s technology and team bridge ecology and computation to make that complexity not just measurable, but actionable.”
Claude Ritter, Managing Partner, NAP
“The platform is intentionally data-agnostic, allowing users to integrate, compare and operationalise heterogeneous data sources according to their relevance to specific decision workflows.”
Jonas Hornung, Investor, Übermorgen Ventures
