Soil carbon sequestration efforts to date have been significantly hampered by the complexity and cost of measuring SOC authoritatively and affordably. Yard Stick's mission is to fix that problem. By reducing the cost of statistically-significant and agronomically-legitimate SOC measurement by 90%+, we can dramatically expand the opportunities for evidence-based regenerative practices to simultaneously improve ecosystem health, increase farmer/rancher livelihoods, and combat climate change.
Yard Stick is an instant in-situ soil organic carbon and bulk density measurement technology designed primarily for field evaluation of soil carbon stocks and changes. Our offering combines technologies that are already published and well-validated by the founding scientific team, including NIR soil spectroscopy, stratified sampling protocol design algorithms, resistance-based in situ bulk density measurement, and an integrating data platform which establishes chain of custody for SOC data - a key requirement as regenerative agriculture and soil carbon efforts mature.
Yard Stick is an instant in-situ soil organic carbon and bulk density measurement technology designed primarily for field evaluation of soil carbon stocks and changes. Our offering combines technologies that are already published and well-validated by the founding scientific team, including NIR soil spectroscopy, stratified sampling protocol design algorithms, resistance-based in situ bulk density measurement, and an integrating data platform which establishes chain of custody for SOC data - a key requirement as regenerative agriculture and soil carbon efforts mature.
Location: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $28.6M
Founded date: 2021
Investors 6
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Lowercarbo... | lowercarbo... |
| 06.06.2024 | Unreasonab... | unreasonab... |
| 19.05.2023 | Cultivian ... | cultivians... |
| 28.07.2022 | Breakthrou... | breakthrou... |
| - | Elemental ... | elementali... |
| - | Microsoft ... | microsoft.... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 17.08.2023 | Series A | $10.6M | - |
| 28.09.2022 | - | $18M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.08.2024 | The Shifting Landscape of AI and Agroforestry: A Tale of Two Industries | In the realm of technology and agriculture, two narratives unfold. One is the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), a force reshaping industries and societies. The other is agroforestry carbon services, a sector grappling with challenges an... |
| 05.08.2024 | Agroforestry carbon services face testing times after raising less than $10m in H1 2024 | Once lauded as the next big thing for the agrifoodtech industry and a solution to climate change, agroforestry carbon farming services face a tough road ahead: in the first half of 2024, they raised just one-tenth of the $100 million raised... |
| 29.11.2023 | Yard Stick Raises $1.4M; Closes $12M Series A Funding | Yard Stick PBC, a Cambridge, MA-based soil carbon measurement technology company, closed its final Series A tranche of $1.4M. This brought the Series A round to $12m, and its overall venture capital funding to date to nearly $18M. The finan... |
| 17.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: BP invests in green hydrogen, Toyota funds carbon measurement, Bushel gleans $26m | This week, BP and Toyota got involved with climate tech for green hydrogen and measuring soil carbon, respectively. Bushel, a platform for grain trade management, raised additional Series C funding. Elsewhere, food robots and restaurant tec... |
| 17.08.2023 | Soil can store gigatons of carbon, and Yard Stick wants to measure it all | When it comes to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, one of the first questions is often: What should we do with it? Making new things is an obvious answer, though it’s still an expensive proposition. Stashing it underground is ano... |
| 17.08.2023 | Yard Stick Raises $10.6M in Series A Funding | Yard Stick, a Cambridge, MA-based soil carbon measurement technology company, raised $10.6M in Series A funding. The round, which brought the total amount to $16M, was led by Toyota Ventures Climate Fund with participation from Microsoft Cl... |
| 29.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Food delivery’s latest unicorn, $80m for virtual restaurants, Pat Brown’s new venture | Thailand-based food delivery service Line Man Wongnai became the sector’s latest company to achieve unicorn status with a massive Series B round. Virtual restaurant/cloud kitchen startups like Not So Dark and CloudEats continue to rake in t... |
| 28.09.2022 | Yard Stick lands $18m to equip agrifood with faster, cheaper soil carbon measurement tools | Corporate commitments around emissions reductions are on the rise these days, which is creating opportunity for startups developing the next generation of carbon measurement tools. A US-based company called Yard Stick hopes to provide farms... |
| - | Yard Stick PBC | “Enabling soil carbon at scale. Measure soil carbon accurately, instantly, and affordably with Yard Stick technologies.” |