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.
Location: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $28.6M
Founded date: 2021
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Lowercarbo... | lowercarbo... |
| 19.05.2023 | Cultivian ... | cultivians... |
| 28.07.2022 | Breakthrou... | breakthrou... |
| - | 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 7
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 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 S... | finsmes.co... |
| 17.08.2023 | Soil can store gigatons of carbon, and Yard Stick wants to m... | When it comes to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, one of the first questions is often: W... | techcrunch... |
| 17.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: BP invests in green hydrogen, Toyo... | This week, BP and Toyota got involved with climate tech for green hydrogen and measuring soil carbon... | agfunderne... |
| 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 Serie... | finsmes.co... |
| 29.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Food delivery’s latest unicorn, $8... | Thailand-based food delivery service Line Man Wongnai became the sector’s latest company to achieve ... | agfunderne... |
| 28.09.2022 | Yard Stick lands $18m to equip agrifood with faster, cheaper... | Corporate commitments around emissions reductions are on the rise these days, which is creating oppo... | agfunderne... |
| - | Yard Stick PBC | “Enabling soil carbon at scale. Measure soil carbon accurately, instantly, and affordably with Yard ... | fastfounde... |