Planetary A/S is a technology company specializing in geospatial analytics and Earth observation data. The company leverages satellite imagery and AI to provide insights for various industries, including agriculture, urban planning, and environmental monitoring.

Planetary A/S

Evergreen venture capital. For founders and companies that aim to regenerate the planet.

Our investment focus is within soil, agriculture, food and nature. 

Our portfolio;
- Agrain
- Aurion
- Foodture
- Re-zip
- Biomix
- Soilsense
- Fælleshaven
- Rock Flour Co
- Novobiom
- Nutrumami

Planetary Impact Ventures

We are happy to announce our investment in Novobiom from Belgium - our first international investment! 🍄
 
Novobiom can be a leading force in harnessing fungal biotechnology for cleaning up soil and managing waste in a way that’s more aligned with natures principles. Their innovative approach mimics nature's own recycling processes, converting waste into valuable resources and paving the way for a more sustainable future.

Along with Noshaq and Circular Innovation Fund, among others, we took part in a EUR 2.0m seed round to allow Novobiom to further develop their organisation and solutions. Novobiom’s CEO and Co-Founder Jean-Michel Scheuren says about the fundraise: “With these funds, we will expand our innovative solutions in the soil remediation sector and drive impactful changes within textile recycling thereby further unlocking the potential of biotechnology to support the transition towards a circular and biobased economy.”

Thank you for letting us into your company and important mission – we look forward to contribute.

Are you our new Fund Director or Senior Investment Manager? We have two new open positions

At Planetary, we invest in companies aligned with our guiding principles. Companies with a focus on long-term solutions within planetary boundaries. We operate as an evergreen fund, investing patient capital within biodiversity, agriculture and food, and aim to provide a fair financial return. Our ambition is clear: To inspire and contribute to a restructuring of our economic systems, a redefinition of what value is, and a reconnection with nature and life on the planet.

Being an evergreen fund with no carried interest, we are demonstrating the change needed in the financial industry for a more humble way of operating and investing. 
 
We created the fund at the end of 2020 with 40m DKK assets under management, which has grown to 120m DKK in subsequent closings. We have a strong pipeline of both investors and investment opportunities, so we are looking to expand the team. We are really excited for the next phase, where we can expand the team and do more.

Therefore: Today we are posting two new open positions:

 - Fund director, who can help us lay the groundwork for growing Planetary further. 

- Senior investment manager, who can run investment processes from sourcing to reporting.

To read more and apply, see links in comments below.

In these jobs you will have the pleasure of working with Morten Koefoed and Thomas Høgenhaven on a daily basis - assisted by a very strong line up of Jacob Jelsing, Silja Nyboe Andersen, Frederikke Aasted and Mikkel Palsby in the board. And with Annette Hartvig Bohé, Søren Ejlersen, Martin Moller  in the investment committee.

On top of this, you will get to work with progressive portfolio companies including Agrain by Circular Food Technology, Aurion A/S, Bioomix, Foodture - Food for our future, Fælleshaven A/S, Novobiom, nutrumami, RE-ZIP - Reusable packaging, Rock Flour Company, SoilSense - and many more to come.

And maybe the best part: Our office is in Krogerup, so you can take a lot of the meetings walking past Rock Flour experiments in the field and into the forrest.

We are proud to announce that we have invested in Rock Flour Company! A startup working with the thousands-year-old natural product of Greenlandic rock flour (GRF).
 
It’s founded by geologist Minik Rosing, who with his team is on a mission to use GRF to naturally fertilize depleted soils and by that same agricultural application activate its ability to capture carbon long term. GRF has the potential to boost farmers’ yield without polluting or disrupting local ecosystems and simultaneously, by being applied in warm climates, capture significant amounts of CO2 for up to 100,000 years. 

With this investment we are happy to join group of likeminded investors, like 2degrees and Look Up Ventures, alongside The Footprint Firm who also invested in this round 🌿 

Learn more about how it all works at www.rockflour.co or watch the documentary “Magic Mud” – we promise it’s fascinating!


The photo is taken in our back yard at Krogerup, where we had to try it out – even if the soil is good and the weather is "bad" – just to see a little magic happen✨

“Generelt ønsker jeg mere handling fra politikerne. Men i mellemtiden må jeg handle selv.”

Sådan lyder det fra Jacob Jelsing, der er medstifter af biotekvirksomheden Gubra, som har gjort ham og medstifteren milliardærer.

For med sin formue har han en plan om at stille risikovillig kapital til rådighed for grønne startups og bæredygtige virksomheder, der arbejder med noget, som skaber forandringer i samfundet.

Med tiden har han fået et større personligt drive for at skabe forandringer andre steder, og for nylig omdøbte han sit personlige holdingselskab til Change Ventures for at signalere, at han nu målretter sine investeringer i den retning.

“Jeg er født i 1974 og lærte om drivhuseffekten i folkeskolen. Vi har kendt til dette problem i over 40 år, og alligevel er de globale CO2-udledninger steget og steget. Vi har set en voldsom effekt på økosystemer og et kæmpe tab af biodiversitet,” siger erhvervsmanden, der oprindeligt er uddannet marinbiolog.

Indtil videre har han investeret et tocifret millionbeløb gennem eget selskab, hvilket inden for “et par år” skal blive trecifret.

Og det er bare begyndelsen, for som han siger: "Jeg kommer i hvert fald ikke til at gå i graven med de her penge stående på min bankkonto.”

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📸 Simon Fals

Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse (The Green Youth Movement) has written a new manifesto. This time it's a utopia for the future of agriculture. The utopia sets a biologically realistic vision for a good, just life within #planetaryboundaries. The book's concrete solutions are primarily political tools, but a close reading of the book reveals an abundance of opportunities and focal points for investors who want to promote an ecologically #regenerative future. 

Below are 11 areas which investors can focus on to help make this vision a reality. 

As investors, we have both an opportunity and a responsibility to be part of this #transformation by supporting initiatives that are not only economically viable, but also promote a more sustainable and equitable world for future generations. 

What we do matters.

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