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Terraformation Is Trying to Turn Forest Restoration Into an Investable Machine
The former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong found that planting trees was the easy part. Terraformation now packages seeds, software, training and patient capital into a bid to make native forests financeable - without flattening them into plantations.
Mast Reforestation Learned Planting Trees Wasn’t the Hard Part - Financing the Forest Was
Mast began with a fleet of seed-firing drones. Then it discovered the expensive truth: after a megafire, the real bottlenecks are native seed, nursery space, dead wood and patient capital - so it bought the supply chain and buried the business model underground.
The Brussels Nonprofit Growing 118 Million Trees
Founded in 2009 to stop global warming "in our lifetime," WeForest has restored more than 100,000 hectares across four continents — and it is quietly proving that planting trees was only ever half the job.
Earth Force Technologies
Earth Force Technologies is a San Francisco climate-tech company modernizing wildfire prevention. It builds precision-forestry sensors, in-cabin tablets, and a web portal that give crews real-time, tree-level guidance during fuel-treatment work and let administrators oversee far more acres from a desk. By combining teleoperated machinery, jobsite connectivity, and automated reporting, the company aims to make landscape-scale forest treatments faster, safer, and cheaper - so states, federal agencies, and conservation districts can reduce catastrophic fire risk at the pace the crisis demands.
Justin Dawe
Justin Dawe is the founder and CEO of Earth Force Technologies, a San Francisco climate-tech company building in-cabin sensor tablets and a web portal that give forestry operators real-time, tree-level guidance for wildfire prevention and forest restoration. A Stanford-trained engineer and Harvard MBA, he has spent more than two decades in climate and mobility ventures, including roles as CEO of Scoot Networks, VP of New Ventures at Bird, and founding CEO of C12 Energy. Earth Force has raised about $8.6M in seed funding from BOLD Capital Partners, Alley Robotics Ventures, and others.