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Aarden Raises $4M to Transform
Land Investment
Welcome to Aarden AI
Land is one of the world’s most important and valuable resources. It underpins everything: food and housing, renewable energy and data centers, conservation and carbon removal. Yet despite being a multi-trillion-dollar asset class, land investment remains stuck in the past: fragmented, opaque, and largely offline.
Today, we’re announcing that Aarden is coming out of stealth with $4M in funding to change that.
Land is one of the world’s most important and valuable resources. It underpins everything: food and housing, renewable energy and data centers, conservation and carbon removal. Yet despite being a multi-trillion-dollar asset class, land investment remains stuck in the past: fragmented, opaque, and largely offline.
Today, we’re announcing that Aarden is coming out of stealth with $4M in funding to change that.
The core challenges in land
Often, buyers and developers—whether in solar, wind, carbon, or data centers—bring sophisticated data models, geospatial tools, and policy insights to the table. Landowners, even at the institutional level, have historically lacked access to the same depth of information. That makes it harder for them to see the full range of opportunities their property could support.
Aarden bridges this gap and creates alignment. When both sides can evaluate land opportunities on equal footing, transactions move faster, deals are more transparent, and outcomes improve for everyone:
Investors and developers gain efficiency and confidence in capital deployment.
Landowners gain visibility and fair value for their assets.
The market as a whole becomes healthier and more liquid, with alignment and shared opportunity replacing inefficiency, distrust, and friction.
Often, buyers and developers—whether in solar, wind, carbon, or data centers—bring sophisticated data models, geospatial tools, and policy insights to the table. Landowners, even at the institutional level, have historically lacked access to the same depth of information. That makes it harder for them to see the full range of opportunities their property could support.
Aarden bridges this gap and creates alignment. When both sides can evaluate land opportunities on equal footing, transactions move faster, deals are more transparent, and outcomes improve for everyone:
Investors and developers gain efficiency and confidence in capital deployment.
Landowners gain visibility and fair value for their assets.
The market as a whole becomes healthier and more liquid, with alignment and shared opportunity replacing inefficiency, distrust, and friction.
What we're building
Aarden is developing the data and transaction infrastructure to bring land into the modern era.
Land data as AI models: We’re synthesizing parcels, ownership, land characteristics, conservation overlays, comps, and operational metrics into a single, queryable model.
Underwriting and workflows: AI and agent-driven valuations, scenario analysis, and investment guidance compress diligence from weeks to hours.
Execution rails: Standardized diligence packages and closing workflows that connect buyers, sellers, and service providers.
The result is a decisioning layer for land investment: one that levels the playing field between landowners and developers, and brings liquidity and transparency to an asset class that desperately needs both.
Aarden is developing the data and transaction infrastructure to bring land into the modern era.
Land data as AI models: We’re synthesizing parcels, ownership, land characteristics, conservation overlays, comps, and operational metrics into a single, queryable model.
Underwriting and workflows: AI and agent-driven valuations, scenario analysis, and investment guidance compress diligence from weeks to hours.
Execution rails: Standardized diligence packages and closing workflows that connect buyers, sellers, and service providers.
The result is a decisioning layer for land investment: one that levels the playing field between landowners and developers, and brings liquidity and transparency to an asset class that desperately needs both.
Why now
The demand for land is intensifying. Volatile interest rates have made land an attractive store of value. At the same time, the global economy requires more of it—renewables and storage for energy security, new data centers, onshoring of manufacturing, conservation and biodiversity, and housing to meet growing populations.
Only now is AI capable of handling this complexity. At Aarden we are ingesting satellite imagery, regulatory shifts, market signals, and ecological projections to optimize across thousands of variables simultaneously.
The demand for land is intensifying. Volatile interest rates have made land an attractive store of value. At the same time, the global economy requires more of it—renewables and storage for energy security, new data centers, onshoring of manufacturing, conservation and biodiversity, and housing to meet growing populations.
Only now is AI capable of handling this complexity. At Aarden we are ingesting satellite imagery, regulatory shifts, market signals, and ecological projections to optimize across thousands of variables simultaneously.
The round
We’ve raised $4M in financing, led by Planeteer, with participation from Founders Co-op, KDX, Superorganism, Stepchange, and Len Jordan from Madrona. This funding will allow us to expand data coverage, deepen underwriting automation with AI, and bring our platform to more capital allocators and project developers.
We’ve raised $4M in financing, led by Planeteer, with participation from Founders Co-op, KDX, Superorganism, Stepchange, and Len Jordan from Madrona. This funding will allow us to expand data coverage, deepen underwriting automation with AI, and bring our platform to more capital allocators and project developers.
Who we are
Aarden’s founding team brings together experience from Zillow, Amazon, Carbon Direct, and Climate Neutral, with expertise in geospatial data, marketplace design, climate, and AI applications.
We’re building the modern rails for land investment so that capital can flow into land assets with the efficiency this moment demands.
Aarden’s founding team brings together experience from Zillow, Amazon, Carbon Direct, and Climate Neutral, with expertise in geospatial data, marketplace design, climate, and AI applications.
We’re building the modern rails for land investment so that capital can flow into land assets with the efficiency this moment demands.
Backed by Investors who share our vision
Start making smarter land decisions.
Start making smarter land decisions.
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