UK’s Verna Raises $4M To Drive Biodiversity Restoration

The round was led by Berlin-based NAP and Zurich-based Übermorgen, with participation from UK investors Vanneck, Love Ventures, Concrete Ventures, and Climate VC.

Co-led by Rafi Cohen, Verna builds software that helps businesses plan, implement, and monitor long-term nature recovery. Rather than creating new biodiversity data, the platform integrates existing datasets, supports practical decision-making and tracks delivery in a way teams can use over decades.

The accelerating degradation of natural systems is raising risks for businesses and communities, making nature restoration critical for long-term growth and resilience. While significant capital is flowing into nature investment converting commitments into tangible impact remains difficult due to the complexity of measuring and improving biodiversity outcomes.

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Verna tackles this challenge by helping organizations turn nature-related commitments into practical, measurable results.

Verna provides software that helps organizations plan, implement and monitor long-term nature recovery programs. Its platform serves over 3,000 users across 100+ organizations, integrating existing environmental data to enable informed decisions and track progress.

The company moves teams beyond risk reporting toward measurable action initially focusing on Biodiversity Net Gain projects and planning to expand to other nature recovery frameworks.

The new funding will support further platform development including enhanced AI capabilities to optimize nature recovery plans.

Verna’s Co-CEO, Rafi Cohen, said, “As threats to the natural world become more urgent, any organisation dependent on land – whether directly or through their supply chain – has a business resilience need to invest in nature recovery.”

“At Verna, every week we receive inbound requests for help from businesses and public bodies across the UK, Europe, the US, and further afield. This fresh investment will enable us to deploy the latest technology, including AI, to meet that demand,” adds Cohen.

About Verna

Verna provides a software platform that enables organizations to plan, implement, and monitor nature recovery projects. By integrating existing biodiversity data, Verna helps overcome data challenges, drive measurable impact, and turn environmental commitments into actionable, long-term results from initial planning through to verified delivery.