Ocean Ledger, a geospatial analytics startup, announces their £700,000 pre-seed round led by Ananda Impact Ventures and Silverstrand Capital. The investment will help scale its solutions that forecast coastal risks and identify interventions for engineering firms, municipalities, environmental services, and insurance.
Over the next 15 years, climate-induced infrastructure losses could reach £3 trillion. In 2024, 78% of insured catastrophe losses—£15 billion—were due to flooding. With 10% of the global population in low-lying coastal areas and £800 billion worth of property positioned within 700 feet of the coastline in the US alone, localised risk assessments are crucial. Yet, conventional tools lack the precision to evaluate coastal erosion and protective measures.
Ocean Ledger fills this gap by forecasting localised coastal shoreline and environmental changes over time and space, harnessing satellite imagery, machine learning, and site-level data. With 13 in-house data products spanning natural capital accounting to coastal erosion, it offers granular, high-resolution analytics that outperform traditional global datasets in accuracy, scale, and usability. Project managers, underwriters, and coastal engineers can compare physical assets against a contextualised baseline to make and monitor informed decisions with greater confidence.
CEO and Co-Founder Paige Roepers, a marine biologist turned investment banker, leads the team. Joining her are Dr. Dimos Traganos, a coastal remote sensing expert, and Dr. Jeremiah Nieves, a data scientist in spatial modelling and disaster risk assessment. Their expertise balances scientific innovation with strategic insight, positioning Ocean Ledger as a leader in sustainable coastal management and finance.
Ocean Ledger has collaborated with commercial satellite data provider, Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), and is exploring partnerships with marine drone and sensor companies. It is also working with insurers to develop new products, including long-term catastrophe bonds.
