London-based Ocean Ledger, a geospatial analytics startup, announces their €900k pre-Seed round to scale its solutions that forecast coastal risk and identify interventions for engineering firms, municipalities, environmental services, and insurance.
The round was led by Ananda Impact Ventures and Silverstrand Capital.
“By linking physical and environmental risks with climate perils, we can enable proactive risk management and continuous monitoring” said Paige Roepers, CEO of Ocean Ledger.
Founded in 2023, Ocean Ledger provides high-resolution geospatial analytics for coastal risk assessment and environmental impact analysis. The company’s proprietary models detect anomalies in shoreline movement, underwater topography, and natural defenses, ensuring better forecasting and monitoring of climate-driven coastal threats.
CEO and Co-Founder Roepers, a marine biologist turned investment banker, leads the team. Joining her are Dr Dimos Traganos, a coastal remote sensing expert, and Dr Jeremiah Nieves, a data scientist in spatial modeling and disaster risk assessment.
According to data provided by Ocean Ledger, over the next 15 years, climate-induced infrastructure losses could reach €3.7 trillion. In 2024, 78% of insured catastrophe losses—16.8 billion—were due to flooding. With 10% of the global population in low-lying coastal areas and €926 billion worth of property positioned within 700 feet of the coastline in the US alone, localised risk assessments are crucial.
Yet, Ocean Ledger believes conventional tools lack the precision to evaluate coastal erosion and protective measures.
Ocean Ledger looks to fill this gap by forecasting localised coastal shoreline and environmental changes over time and space, harnessing satellite imagery, machine learning, and site-level data.
With 13 in-house data products spanning natural capital accounting to coastal erosion, they offer granular, high-resolution analytics that outperform traditional global datasets in accuracy, scale, and usability. Project managers, underwriters, and coastal engineers can compare physical assets against a contextualised baseline to make and monitor informed decisions with greater confidence.
Built in-house, the Ocean Ledger Coastal Risk Tool delivers:
- Contextualised baseline of natural capital and erosion, offering a clear understanding of historical, current and predicted gain/loss conditions.
- Scenario analysis and forecasting, enabling proactive risk management, like flood and sea-level rise, and implementing nature-based or engineered defenses.
- Asset-level analysis and triggers, integrating into risk profiles for underwriting and risk reduction strategies.
- Natural capital accounts, quantifying coastal ecosystems such as mangrove, seagrass and corals to identify restoration suitability.
- Holistic coastal risk models, incorporating natural defenses and underwater topography (bathymetry).
Ocean Ledger has collaborated with commercial satellite data provider, Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL), and is exploring partnerships with marine drone and sensor companies. It is also working with insurers to develop new products, including long-term catastrophe bonds.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/03/ocean-ledger-secures-e900k-to-increase-accuracy-of-coastal-risk-management/
