Aarden
Aarden
Sector
Horizontal Enablement
Investment Date
2024
Stage
Seed
Leadership
Danan Margason
Danan Margason
Co-founder & CEO
Ben Hudson
Ben Hudson
Co-founder & CTO

A unified intelligence platform for evaluating and optimizing large-scale land portfolios.

Why we invested

Land is one of the most foundational assets in the climate transition. It determines where renewable projects can be built, how ecosystems are conserved, where rural housing can expand, how agriculture evolves, and how timber resources are sustainably managed. Yet the tools used to evaluate land value and potential remain outdated and opaque. Data is fragmented across government systems, geospatial layers, and local records, while diligence processes rely on manual analysis and slow, reactive workflows. Institutional buyers, landowners, and conservation groups all face the same problem: it is far too hard to understand what land can become.

Aarden builds the decision-support platform that land stewards have long needed. Designed for those managing tens of thousands to millions of acres, the platform integrates geospatial intelligence, financial modeling, and machine reasoning to accelerate diligence and reveal change-in-use opportunities—whether for solar development, timber and forest management, conservation value, habitat restoration, sustainable agriculture, or rural housing. By giving institutional landowners a unified, forward-looking view of their portfolios, Aarden enables smarter decisions, faster transactions, and more strategic land management at a scale that matches the demands of the climate and energy transitions.