Verna, a UK tech firm helping meet global demand for its nature recovery software, today announced it has raised £3 million in funding co-led by NAP and Übermogen. The round also included participation from UK funds including Vanneck, Love Ventures, Concrete Ventures, and Climate VC.
Its solutions use AI and smart software to help customers take action on nature - moving beyond identifying and reporting risks and impacts, to making verifiable steps to address them.
Damage to natural systems is creating accelerating risks to businesses and communities, making nature repair a necessity for future growth and resilience. As a result, over $200B per year is being allocated to nature investment, and this is expected to double by 2030. Verna tackles the challenge of turning this funding into action, which is often held back by the complexity of measuring and improving biodiversity.
Verna’s software has seen rapid uptake, leading to over $1M in Annual Recurring Revenue within a year of launch. Over 3,000 users, across more than 100 customer organisations, use the system to plan, implement, and monitor nature recovery programmes. Rather than generating new nature data - an area where many other tech firms are competing - Verna focuses on helping business teams to bring different nature data together, make complex decisions, and track delivery over decades.
Verna’s initial focus has been on projects run using Biodiversity Net Gain, a nature data methodology pioneered in the UK and now spreading globally. The company’s expansion will include supporting other frameworks for nature recovery.
Verna will use the money to further build out its tech, including developing AI systems for optimising nature recovery plans.
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. At Verna, every week we receive inbound requests for help from businesses and public bodies across the UK, Europe, the US, and further afield. This fresh investment will enable us to deploy the latest technology, including AI, to meet that demand.
Rafi Cohen, Co-founder & Co-CEO
Verna demonstrates a strong, mission-led focus on delivering measurable customer outcomes rather than driving feature-led adoption. The platform is intentionally data-agnostic, allowing users to integrate, compare and operationalise heterogeneous data sources according to their relevance to specific decision workflows, rather than privileging any single dataset or provider. The team also shows a clear understanding of the long time horizons and multi-stakeholder coordination required for effective nature recovery, designing collaboration and continuity into the product to support use cases that span organisations and decades.
Jonas Hornung, Investor at Übermorgen
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 at NAP
Businesses across the world are recognising that nature isn’t just about regulatory compliance and reporting - repairing nature is a core driver of business resilience and growth. 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 at Arup
