PlanetWatchers
Remote Sensing Analysis for Crop Insurance Applications
Startup A Agriculture & Food Technologies Est. 2016
Total Raised
$16.25M
A
Last Round
$11M
3 rounds
Investors
8
8 public
Team
5
11-50 employees
Confidence
100/100
News
7
articles
About
PlanetWatchers is a SaaS solution designed to help crop insurers in North America assess risk and accurately determine crop damage. The company's geospatial technology combines machine-learning algorithms, elastic cloud infrastructure, and multi-source satellite sensors to deliver a robust monitoring system that provides critical information for the management of large-scale crops at a regional and global scale. The system provides information such as acreage validation, crop-yield predictions, and damage analysis from wind and excess moisture.
Classification
Sector
Climate TechCarbon TechCarbon Analytics, Earth Data & FintechFood & Land UseSustainable FarmingAgriculture & Food TechnologiesAg TechPrecision AgFarm Equipment & Treatment
Core Technology
Simulation & ImagingSynthetic DataCommunicationsSatellitesArtificial IntelligenceMachine Learning
Target Customer
Financial ServicesFinancial ProductsInsuranceAgriculture & FoodCrops
Business Model
B2GB2B
Tags
climate-techartificial-intelligencealert-systemremote-sensingsatellitessmart-farmingmonitoringprecision-agricultureimage-processingmunicipalitiesagriculturemanagement-solutionscomputer-visioncropsgpsagtechoptronicsspace-tech
Funding & Events
Sep 2022
A Round $11M
Creative Ventures (Lead), Seraphim Space (Lead)
Jun 2021
A Round $3.5M
Seraphim Space (Lead), Newable Capital, Ridgeline Partners, Creative Ventures, The Trendlines Group
Jul 2017
Seed $1.75M
Sapir Venture Partners, Resolute Ventures, ZORA Ventures
News (7)
Sep 28, 2022 · www.reinsurancene.ws
growth-positive
PlanetWatchers raises $11m funding for expansions plans - Reinsurance News
InvestmentExpand
Jun 3, 2021 · insurance-edge.net
growth-positive
Crop Insurance: PlanetWatchers Raises $3.5 in Funding Round -
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Feb 10, 2019 · geoawesomeness.com
growth-positive
PlanetWatchers - Geoanalytics for Natural resource management
CustomersPartners
Sep 13, 2018 · spacenews.com
growth-positive
PlanetWatchers to target sugar cane, energy markets - SpaceNews
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Sep 5, 2018 · www.satellitetoday.com
growth-positive
PlanetWatchers Unveils Multi-Source SAR Analytics Platform - Via Satellite -
CustomersPartners
Nov 9, 2017 · www.huffingtonpost.com
growth-positive
A Radar-Based Change Detection Technology Is Helping Preserve Our Forests
CustomersPartners
Aug 3, 2017 · www.huffingtonpost.com
growth-positive
From Israel's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to Leveraging AI for Natural Resource Management
CustomersPartners
Details
Product Stage
Released
Employees
11-50
Exact Count
26
District
Center District
Founded
2016
Registrar
515474625
Crunchbase
planetwatchers
Locations
HaPelech St 7, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
New York, NY, USA
London, UK
Links
Website
LinkedIn
Twitter
Facebook
Careers
Admin
Last Update
Jul 28, 2025
Verified by
Ortal Wein
Claimed
Yes
Missing
markets
Team (5)
Dominic Edmunds
CEO
Roi Shilo
Co-founder & CTO
Founder
Trevor Nicholson
CFO
Ori Elkin
Head Of Engineering and PM
Rebecca Waiting
Head of Customer Success
Internal
Created by
Fredrik Liljedahl (fredrik.liljedahl@sncentral.org)
Created
2016-08-03T00:00:00.000Z
Last editor
Ortal Wein (ortalw@sncentral.org)