Carbontribe Labs

Carbontribe Labs is an environmental data and API platform company founded by Japanese founders and registered in Estonia (Carbontribe Labs OÜ, Tallinn), with operations in Berlin and Amsterdam. It combines computer vision, satellite imagery and Web3/blockchain technology to automate the generation and monitoring of carbon removal digital assets. Its system automatically detects changes in forest areas, collects and stores the resulting data on decentralized infrastructure, and issues digital assets representing verified greenhouse-gas reductions, with transaction histories and data provenance open to verification and resistant to tampering.

The company's commercial platform, the "Carbontribe Engine," is an API product that ingests raw primary environmental data from corporate sources, calculates environmental value using AI, and converts the result into third-party certified, auditable digital assets, tokenized using the ERC1155 standard. Its underlying methodology framework, the "Carbontribe Standard," is built around AI-driven calculation and blockchain-managed data, and has received international third-party certification from Earthood, a UK-based auditing body. Beyond carbon, the company is extending the Engine to data categories including water resources, biodiversity and industrial waste, positioning the output for use in corporate finance and accounting systems and in institutional investment decisions.

Founding story

The founders previously attempted several projects that did not succeed, which they credit with teaching them to start from a problem rather than a solution. After interviewing farmers, forest owners and NGOs in Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, who repeatedly asked how they could monetize their land, they identified the carbon credit market's slowness, cost and lack of transparency as the problem to address and built on their existing technical experience to form Carbontribe Labs.

Business model

Carbontribe Labs sells software and API access to corporates and project developers, generating carbon removal and broader environmental digital assets. It reported paying customers and multiple proof-of-concept engagements within roughly eight months of founding, and runs joint validation and co-development projects with large corporates.

Revenue comes from paid services and products sold to companies, including proof-of-concept and platform/API engagements; the company reported having reached a satisfactory revenue level roughly eight months after founding.

Traction

Within about eight months of founding the company reported revenue, paying customers for its services and products, an early investor, and multiple proof-of-concept projects. It was selected for Techstars Sustainability Paris in 2024, secured Earthood certification for the Carbontribe Standard, and is running a pilot with J-POWER while co-developing applications with NTT DOCOMO Business.

Latest developments

Carbontribe Labs is running a joint pilot with Japanese utility J-POWER (Electric Power Development) to validate data infrastructure for natural capital investment within J-POWER's oil palm trunk derived biomass fuel business, covering automated data ingestion from satellite and computer vision sources, AI-driven methodology, blockchain storage, integration with corporate finance and accounting systems, and tokenization as ERC1155 assets. The company is also expanding commercial rollout of the Carbontribe Engine into water resources, biodiversity and industrial waste data, and co-developing applications with NTT DOCOMO Business.