NatureHelm and Gentian Innovate to Accelerate Biodiversity Intelligence for Real Asset Managers & Investors
NatureHelm, the leading biodiversity intelligence platform transforming nature risks into new financial opportunities, and Gentian, a pioneer in AI-driven satellite habitat mapping, today announced a strategic partnership to provide end-to-end nature-related data solutions. The collaboration marks a significant milestone in the industry by bridging the gap between high-level satellite monitoring and site-specific ecological insights.
As global frameworks and regulations like the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) gain momentum, businesses are under unprecedented pressure to account for their impact on the natural world. This is further exacerbated by increasing investor demands for transparent reporting of nature KPIs before gaining access to crucial finance. This partnership combines Gentian’s ability to map habitats at scale using the latest globally available very high-resolution imagery with NatureHelm’s comprehensive biodiversity risk management platform that is underpinned by deep ecological expertise.
Integrated Biodiversity Intelligence: From Data Acquisition to Boardroom Action
The partnership establishes a seamless data pipeline that converts high-resolution multi-spectral imagery and comprehensive species data from on the ground into decision-ready insights across global portfolios. This end-to-end integration provides the market’s most comprehensive biodiversity intelligence suite, providing State of Nature metrics with unprecedented data granularity & transparency. This not only enables companies to strategically manage risks, but also translates these into new nature-related financial opportunities.
- Gentian’s Precision Mapping: Gentian specializes in fine-scale land cover and vegetation analysis. Utilizing multi-spectrum data at an industry-leading 11cm resolution, they provide immense accuracy in habitat classification, detecting environmental nuances that traditional satellite monitoring misses.
- NatureHelm’s Biodiversity Intelligence: NatureHelm integrates this high-resolution data to complement their granular species information from on the ground. Their platform aggregates complex, site-specific data into audit-ready reports, allowing firms to prioritize and manage nature-related risks.
Key Benefits for Organisations Managing Nature-Related Risk
Together, NatureHelm and Gentian provide a full ecological picture that is difficult to achieve any other way:
- Full-spectrum insights: Habitat and vegetation mapping at scale, enriched with targeted species-level intelligence that satellite data alone can’t capture.
- Scale with precision: Rapid baselines and annual monitoring across hundreds or thousands of sites that are validated and enriched with ecological expertise, and complemented with ground data collection where required.
- Actionable nature strategies: Clear identification and monitoring of hotspots, risks, and strategic natural capital uplift opportunities across both built and natural assets, including urban green infrastructure, forestry portfolios and regenerative ag supply chains.
- Cost-effective decision support: Prioritise fieldwork and interventions where they matter most by combining remote screening with focused ecological follow-up.
- Faster, compliance-ready reporting: Streamlined workflows that convert complex nature data into consistent, defensible outputs aligned with TNFD, CSRD, and investor reporting needs.
Nature data providing cross-sector insights
The joint partnership provides unprecedented decision-ready intelligence for organisations managing complex land footprints or nature-related risk exposure across a diversity of sectors. This includes real asset investors and managers, agrifood companies, financial institutions, infrastructure owners, and the public sector. By combining scalable habitat intelligence with species and ecological context, the partnership supports use cases ranging from portfolio screening and due diligence to ongoing monitoring, biodiversity uplift planning, and sustainability or certification objectives.
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“Nature risks are incredibly complex and challenging for companies to understand, manage and report on across global portfolios” said Dr Debbie Saunders, CEO and Co-founder at NatureHelm. “By combining our high granularity biodiversity data with Gentian’s fine resolution mapping, we provide companies with unprecedented decision-ready insights to manage and monitor nature risks at scale”. Importantly, this also enables companies to move beyond basic reporting and translate these risks into new nature-related financial opportunities.”
“Nature data needs to be scalable, consistent, and defensible, especially as reporting expectations accelerate,” said Daniel White, CEO of Gentian. “Together with NatureHelm, we’re offering a clear pathway from high-resolution habitat mapping to practical, audit-ready insights that help organisations manage risk and deliver measurable nature-positive outcomes.”
What’s Next
NatureHelm and Gentian have already successfully delivered to global sustainability leaders, seamlessly integrating biodiversity initiatives into their broader Nature Positive Sustainability Strategies. Now they are scaling up this capability globally to deliver the same value to agrifood and real asset investment and management companies no matter where they are in the world.
For more information, please contact:
NatureHelm: Alexandra Kmita, alex@naturehelm.com
Gentian: Jamie Rhodes, marketing@gentian.team
About NatureHelm
NatureHelm (https://naturehelm.com/) helps corporates to understand, prioritise, and manage business risks, impacts, and dependencies related to biodiversity. We aggregate and translate complex, site-specific biodiversity data into clear, actionable insights for businesses and financial institutions. Our solutions enable organisations to proactively identify and manage nature-related double materiality risks, support regulatory compliance (TNFD, CSRD), and drive verifiable, nature-positive change across their entire value chain.
About Gentian
Gentian (https://www.gentian.io/) helps organisations understand the truth about nature across the places they operate and invest. We combine high-resolution Earth observation imagery with AI to translate complex habitat and biodiversity data into clear, decision-ready insights. Our nature intelligence supports faster baselining and monitoring, strengthens nature-related risk and opportunity management, and helps teams align with frameworks such as TNFD and CSRD. We work alongside ecologists, consultancies, and sustainability teams to complement field expertise, improve consistency, and enable verifiable, nature-positive outcomes across portfolios and supply chains.