Kristjan Lepik is the CEO & Co-Founder of Arbonics. He is an active public speaker, getting excited about how technology is changing the world and the risks and opportunities this creates for cities and countries.

He is an adviser to the Estonian e-residency team, helping to create the world’s first borderless digital society.

Arbonics‘ approach is to use a data- and science-driven tool to calculate the potential carbon income of land and forests for landowners in Europe. For obvious reasons, this creates a business for these owners as well as helps to fight climate change.

The company is now announcing that earlier this year it raised €1.8 million in a pre-seed round from Taavet Hinrikus (co-founder of Wise) with his new fund Plural.

Founded by Kristjan Lepik and Lisett Luik in early 2022, Arbonics says it helps landowners analyze and calculate the ability of their land to absorb carbon using many data sources and looks at unused land and existing forests that can generate carbon credits.