# Flash Forest

> Flash Forest is a Toronto-based reforestation company that uses drones, proprietary biological seed pods, aerial mapping, and machine learning to replant forests faster and cheaper than traditional hand-planting. Founded in 2019, it deploys aerial and ground-based systems to restore land degraded by wildfire and logging, and pairs planting with a forestry intelligence service that surveys and monitors forests. The company has planted more than 3 million trees and aims to reach one billion by 2028.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Founders:** Bryce Jones (Co-founder & CEO), Cameron Jones (Co-founder), Angelique Ahlstrom (Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer)
- **Team size:** ~28 employees
- **Products:** Automated Reforestation, Seed Pod Technology, Forestry Intelligence Service, Aerial Mapping & Telemetry
- **Notable:** Planted 3.3M+ trees across 55+ projects and 25+ species, Won the 2021 Index Award (Home category), Closed an $11.4M CAD Series A co-led by the TELUS Pollinator Fund

## Products & services

- **Automated Reforestation** — Aerial and ground-based drones deploy proprietary biological seed pods at high velocity into the soil, planting trees across difficult terrain far faster than manual crews.
- **Seed Pod Technology** — Nutrient-packed biodegradable pods engineered as controlled micro-environments for each seed; a plant-science team has designed over 100 species-specific recipes.
- **Forestry Intelligence Service** — Drone-based forest surveys using machine learning and high-resolution LiDAR to detect species composition, tree height, stem density, and competition metrics.
- **Aerial Mapping & Telemetry** — Software that assesses environmental conditions to place trees uniformly and only where they can survive.

## Achievements

- Planted 3.3M+ trees across 55+ projects and 25+ species
- Won the 2021 Index Award (Home category)
- Closed an $11.4M CAD Series A co-led by the TELUS Pollinator Fund
- Secured a $1.35M Natural Resources Canada federal contract to plant 1M+ trees
- Developed 100+ proprietary seed pod recipes
- Capacity to plant up to 100,000 seed pods per day per operator

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Emissions Reduction Alberta published Flash Forest's final report on its 2021-2023 commercial drone-reforestation pilots.
- **2025** — Company reports a contract for up to 12.1 million drone-planted trees over a three-year period ending 2025.
- **2023-04** — Closed $11.4M CAD Series A funding round co-led by the TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good and OurCrowd.

## Links

- Website: https://flashforest.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flashforest
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/flash_forest
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/flashforest.ca/

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