Sassan Saatchi
Carbon is now a commodity, yet companies and governments investing billions in forest conservation lack the precise, real-time data to verify carbon storage or stop deforestation. Half of the world's trees sit outside forests, unmapped and unmonitored.
The Idea
AI Powered Tree-Based Carbon Measurement
Organization
Organization
CTrees
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Geography
Sector
Structure
The Mission
Save trees globally.
How It Works
CTrees combines satellite data and AI to create a global database quantifying carbon stored in every tree—including the half outside forests. Their open-source platforms provide real-time, high-resolution monitoring that tracks deforestation down to individual trees, enabling governments, companies, and carbon markets to verify forest protection and stop illegal logging.
The Dream
Businesses provide real-time, tree-level forest monitoring platforms used globally, paid by governments, companies, and carbon markets verifying forest protection and stopping deforestation.
Why We Picked Sassan
Sassan brings deep expertise from NASA and academia, with decades connecting remote sensing to on-the-ground conservation in the Amazon and Congo Basin. Since founding CTrees in 2022, he's built three open-source platforms providing global, tree-level carbon monitoring. The technology tracks half the world's trees that sit outside forests—unmapped until now. The big test is proving governments, companies, and carbon markets will pay for precision monitoring and that better data actually keeps trees standing.
