What Makes Downforce Technologies a Great Investment

The rapidly growing Downforce Technologies remote measurement tool is industry leading, with over 5 years of historical analysis, as well as future modelling and scenario planning, and 90% accuracy over soil sampling.

Nature-based solutions, especially soil health, are critical for achieving net zero carbon emissions. Our Impact Growth Fund focuses on investing in companies addressing our impact themes, including Natural Resource Usage and Enhancement and Decarbonisation.

By enabling farmers to benchmark their soil carbon content accurately, Downforce Technologies serve as a valuable regenerative agricultural data piece to manage seasonal risks and support the sustainable production of healthy foods. Addressing the restoration of global soil health creates material and rapidly expanding market opportunities such as sustainable land management, supply chain resilience, carbon markets and green finance. 

Downforce Technologies can be used by a broad range of stakeholders, including individual farmers, farming communities, public bodies, food producers, asset managers, banks, insurers and food retailers. Its current client base includes prominent banks, landowners and retailers, as well as multinational corporations wanting to assess their supply chain impacts.

With a team of 24 experts, Downforce Technologies has decades of academic and business experience, coming out of 20 leading universities globally, with a track record of 8 startups launched and several successful exits. The company utilise their proprietary land classification methodology, and platform analytics to provide key services such as:

• Soil sampling: Using existing gold standard data to develop functional classes and responses to environmental change.

• On the ground monitoring: Using local sampling and surveys plus machine learning to enhance definition of functional classes and responses to environmental and land-use change.

• Satellite and airborne observations: Using optical spectra, infrared, ultraviolet, radar, LiDAR and digital terrain data to produce high-resolution outputs at scale.

• Global data sets: Using high quality internationally harmonised data for meteorology, climatology, land cover, biodiversity and water.

• Existing natural capital models: Using published algorithms and results of models for microbial dynamics, soil-water interactions, soil biochemistry and vegetation health.

Positively Impacting the World

Downforce Technologies and Dragonfly Enviro Capital believe that healthy soils make a healthy planet and are passionate about ensuring that the platform impacts the world positively for future generations.

Downforce Technologies leverages the knowledge and experience of its incredible management team, starting with their Founder & CSO Prof. Jacquie McGlade. Jaquie is the former Chief Scientist of UNEP and Executive Director of the European Environment Agency, created the technology from Nairobi where she lives, along with former investment banker, Co-Founder and CDO Maria Whittaker.

Their CEO, Dr Josephine Wapakabulo is the former R-R Engineering Executive, founding CEO of the Ugandan Oil Corp, and has considerable start-up experience, and their CTO, Aeham Abushwashi, is an Oxford University graduate with 20 years technology & startup experience at companies like Symantec and Ox Mountain.

The company aims to provide future-proof solutions that meet current business needs but also have an enduring impact on the overall wellbeing of communities. We are proud to be collaborating with Downforce Technologies to amplify powerful global  impact and ensure a better future for the planet and people.

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