“The land knows how to recover. What’s missing is the financial infrastructure to fund the first five years.”
Charles Curtin — Landscape Ecologist & Northern NM Operations Lead
Land transitions.
Underwritten as security.
We build the financial, legal, and monitoring infrastructure that turns degraded and abandoned land into investable, productive systems — without buying a single hectare.
The world’s most expensive infrastructure gap.
$44T
in lost ecosystem services per year
5B ha
of degraded land worldwide
3.3M ha
burned in Iberia since 2006
Five billion hectares of land are degraded worldwide. That’s $44 trillion a year in lost ecosystem services. Governments own some of it. Ranchers, farmers, timber companies, and municipalities own the rest. The capital to restore it exists. It just can’t get there.
Wildfire
The Hermits Peak fire cost $7 billion. Spain's 2025 season: €8 billion. These aren't projections — they're line items in state budgets today.
$7B
Hermits PeakWater
Municipal water treatment costs spike 3–10× after fire. Half of Spain's territory is under severe water stress. The Ogallala Aquifer's 50-year viability is in question.
3–10×
Treatment cost spikeRural Collapse
Degraded land means fewer jobs, a shrinking tax base, and less capacity to respond to the next crisis. In Spain, 5,000+ municipalities across 320,000 km² are emptying out. Abandoned land becomes fuel.
5,000+
Emptying municipalitiesThe technologies to fix this are proven. The buyers exist. The money is waiting. The bottleneck is structural: no one can finance the transition.
Two deployments. Two ownership types. One system.
New Mexico proves the model on public land. Spain proves it on abandoned private land. Together, they validate across the two most common patterns of degraded-land ownership worldwide.
Turning wildfire liability into productive infrastructure.
35,000
acres~$45M
Industrial Revenue Bond pathway~$420
Per acre yearly revenue$64B
Sovereign Wealth Fund partner AUM
Restoring Europe's emptied heartland.
500 ha
pilot scale€800–1,100
Per hectare yearly revenueBiochar plant
anchor buyerGlobal bank + EU
finance pathWe build the infrastructure that makes the transition bankable.
Land doesn’t have a technology problem. It has a financial infrastructure problem. Three groups need each other — operators who know the land, investors with capital mandates, and buyers who want cleaner, cheaper inputs — but the system gives them no way to transact.
Sovereign Land is the connective tissue.
We don't buy land
We structure the financial, legal, and operational architecture around it
Land ownership stays with whoever holds title today — always
We don't speculate on land values
We design multi-output systems that self-hedge against volatility
Five revenue streams instead of one fragile bet
We don't rely on carbon credits
We connect field data to contract triggers through our platform, LandStack
Investors get the rigour their committees require
The qualifier is land condition — not title.
We serve any owner who can’t finance the transition alone.
Sovereign & public land
State commissions and public agencies sitting on degraded land that generates no revenue and attracts no private interest. We convert the liability into a structured, revenue-generating system — without privatisation, without selling the asset.
Private agricultural land
Ranches and farms where degraded acreage has been written off — too costly to restore, impossible to finance alone. We unlock the capital to make the transition, while the landowner retains full title and begins receiving income from year one.
Institutional land
Timber companies, REITs, and investment managers with stranded land on the books. ESG mandates, no clear path. We convert degraded holdings into measurable, reportable, productive assets — no divestment required.
Community & indigenous custodial land
Territories that cannot be sold but deserve productive futures. Our structure works with non-title custodianship — delivering real economic outcomes without threatening the rights that define the land.
You can’t underwrite what you can’t measure. We solved that.
“Investors don’t need to become soil scientists. They need data in the language their committees already use — volatility scores, downside risk buffers, asset appreciation trajectories. That’s exactly what our MRV produces.”
Gon Zifroni — Founder & CEO
The reason degraded land stays unfunded isn’t a lack of intent. It’s that no one can prove — to the standard institutional capital requires — that the transition is working. We close that gap with finance-grade MRV built into every engagement from day one.
1
We measure what matters
Our MRV backbone — the BioRegen Index, developed and field-proven across 1,257 hectares and 8 farms in Argentina — captures 10 ecological indicators across 4 components. Satellite data, ground-truth field audits, and independent verification. Not academic research. Deployable, repeatable, scalable.
2
We translate ecology into finance
Raw biological data becomes underwriting intelligence. These aren't scientific curiosities. They're the signals a bond advisor, a sovereign wealth fund, or a project finance team needs to say yes.
3
Early signals make the transition bankable
This is the critical insight: you don't need to wait five years for stabilised performance to unlock capital. MRV data in the first 6–12 months produces trend lines, volatility narrowing, and measurable improvement signals that give investors confidence to commit. The Transition Facility absorbs the remaining uncertainty — and as data improves, buffers release.
Early MRV doesn't just verify progress. It is the bankability event.
Finance-grade outputs from day one.
Raw ecological data doesn’t move capital. We translate it into the signals investors actually use to make decisions.
01
Biological Asset Quality
Is the land's productive base intact?
02
Resilience Score
Can it absorb shocks?
03
Stability / Volatility Proxy
How predictable are the outputs?
04
Downside Risk Buffer
What's the loss-mitigation capacity?
05
Asset Appreciation Trajectory
Is value compounding over time?
Every project we touch generates a proprietary dataset that makes the next one easier to underwrite. This compounds.
No competitor will have this data — because no one else structures projects this way.
Five conditions for bankable land. We deliver all five.
Most initiatives solve one. We solve all five — as one integrated system that adapts to the landowner.
01
Defined Performance
Physical, measurable outcomes over time: food, water, energy, risk reduction.
02
Contractualisation
Long-duration agreements that fit the legal structure — state trust, private title, custodial, lease.
03
Risk Allocation
Land ownership separated from delivery risk separated from capital risk.
04
Capital Stack Compatibility
Grants, concessional, and senior capital layer without breaking governance.
05
Operating Governance
One entity orchestrates delivery, compliance, and reporting for decades.
This is an operating system, not a product.
And it fits the landowner — not the other way around.
The platform that powers every engagement
LandStack — field data in. Underwriting signals out.
Small. Senior. Built for this problem.
Each person brings a specific capability the system requires. No generalists.
Founder & CEO
Technology, energy, construction. Ex-Autodesk/VMware. Building LandStack.
NM Project Coordinator
30+ years rural development, financial structuring, political pathway.
Spain SPV Lead
Paulownia IP, industrial relationships, steel/energy buyer engagement.
MRV Methodology
BioRegen Index. Proven: 1,257 ha / 8 farms, Argentina. LandScope Terrain Analysis API + channel partnership. Active product, paying customers.
Three senior hires to execute the system.
Head of Structuring
Legal & financial architecture
CTO
LandStack platform development
Head of Origination
Sovereign + private landowner relationships
Join us
We are building an institution. If you belong here, you will know it.
Invest in the infrastructure layer — not a land fund.
“The first platform to solve system-level bankability for degraded land — across ownership types, jurisdictions, and financing frameworks — defines the category.”
Sovereign Land SAS
Paris, France · Infrastructure layerNature’s productivity already generates enormous value — cleaner water, lower fire risk, stable energy, healthy soil. The only thing missing is the financial structure. That’s what we build.
Not conservation
We don't require ownership
Not carbon credits
Multi-output self-hedging is the opposite of single-output fragility
Not land private equity
We never buy land
Not farm software
We connect to capital markets, not just fields
Not a fund
Pure operating leverage, no balance-sheet risk
$44 trillion/year in degraded ecosystem services globally (UNCCD)
5 billion hectares of degraded land — most already owned by someone who can't finance the transition
No dominant operating standard exists for making degraded land bankable
10–20 year operating agreements with extreme switching costs = deep moat
Compounding data advantage — every quarter of deployment makes the next project easier to underwrite
$2.5M
base fees over 3 years from the first pilot alone
Program design & structuring
Upfront fee
LandStack deployment
Upfront fee
Operations, MRV & reporting
Recurring (36+ months)
Per-acre platform fees
Recurring ($2.00/acre/mo to ≤$1.00/acre/mo at maturity)
Performance milestone fees
Milestone-triggered
Module expansion
$250K per 10,000 ha added
LandStack MVP deployed (NM data flows)
Q2 2026
Head of Structuring hired
Q2 2026
First municipal LOI signed (NM)
Q3 2026
Bond submission to NMSIC
Q4 2026
First paid engagement
Q4 2026
Industrial Revenue Bond issued, capital deployed
H1 2027
First stabilised revenue data
H2 2027
If NM doesn’t reach bond submission within 12 months, we pivot to smaller paid engagements — bankability assessments for private landowners, MRV scoping for timber companies — while preserving methodology IP and platform.
Team — three senior hires (Structuring, CTO, Origination)
LandStack — development, deployment, first data flows
MRV & reporting systems — field-grade to finance-grade translation
Bankability frameworks & legal architecture
Origination — NM public land + Spain private/municipal land