AI & Machine Learning · Cleantech · Climate tech Techstars '21

Deep transparency for the world's carbon credits.

Renoster is the software and data platform for the carbon markets — pairing remote sensing (LiDAR + multispectral) with AI/ML to make nature-based carbon credible, measurable, and verifiable.

Built in Austin, Texas · Deep transparency for every tonne

Est. 2019
Austin, Texas
Apollo
Forest-carbon program
LiDAR + ML
Remote sensing + AI
Techstars '21
Sustainability Accelerator
The problem

Carbon markets run on trust.
Most credits can't prove it.

Too many nature-based credits rest on optimistic baselines and self-reported numbers. When the measurement is opaque, the climate impact is unknowable — and buyers carry the risk.

The old way

Opaque, self-reported, unverifiable

Credits issued on rosy assumptions, thin field sampling, and paperwork no third party can independently reproduce.

  • Sparse plots stand in for whole landscapes
  • Baselines chosen to inflate, not to reflect reality
  • Quality is a promise, not a proof
The Renoster way

Measured, monitored, open to scrutiny

We start from remote sensing and AI/ML, then expose the data and methods behind every tonne — so integrity is something you verify, not just trust.

  • LiDAR + multispectral cover the full project area
  • Machine-learning baselines grounded in data
  • Full lineage from source data to issued credit
Our approach

A platform built for verifiable carbon.

Renoster began as a carbon-project ratings agency — scrutinizing other people's credits. We saw the market needed carbon it could actually verify, so we built the software and data platform to deliver it.

AI / ML monitoring

Machine-learning models turn sensor data into defensible baselines and detect real forest change over time — at a scale field crews can't match.

● Continuous

Remote sensing

LiDAR and multispectral imagery quantify standing biomass and canopy structure across the entire project — far beyond what sparse plots can see.

● LiDAR + multispectral

Deep transparency

Baselines, uncertainty, and monitoring data are laid open. Buyers and auditors can trace the number behind every credit back to its source.

● Fully traceable
Introducing Apollo

The program behind high-integrity forest carbon.

Apollo generates carbon credits through improved forest management — pairing LiDAR-grade monitoring and machine learning with transparent baselines and traceable issuance, so each tonne stands up to scrutiny.

  • Improved forest management that keeps carbon standing and growing
  • LiDAR + multispectral monitoring across the full project area
  • Transparent, ML-derived baselines published for review
  • Credits traceable from source data to final issuance
How it works

From forest to verifiable tonne.

01

Measure

Remote sensing and LiDAR capture standing carbon and canopy structure across the whole project.

02

Model

Machine-learning models turn sensor data into a defensible, transparent baseline.

03

Monitor

Continuous monitoring tracks real forest change against the baseline over time.

04

Verify

Methods and data are published so every credit can be independently checked — and trusted.

Backed by

Seed-backed climate tech, accelerated by Techstars.

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'21 · Sustainability Accelerator
Seed-backed climate tech AI & ML · Cleantech · Climate tech
In partnership with The Nature Conservancy · Techstars 2021
Why Renoster

If a credit can't be verified, it shouldn't be sold.

— The Renoster Systems team, Austin, TX

Renoster Systems was founded in 2019 in Austin, Texas. We started by rating the quality of other carbon projects — and the deeper we looked, the clearer it became that the market needed carbon built on evidence, not assumptions.

Today we build the software, data, and machine learning that make nature-based carbon genuinely transparent — so climate impact is measurable and buyers can act with confidence.

Founded 2019 Austin, Texas AI & Machine Learning · Cleantech · Climate tech
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Carbon you can stand behind.

Talk to our team about deeply transparent forest carbon — and see the data, models, and lineage behind every tonne.