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May 13, 2021

UK-based Sylvera raises $7.8m to right carbon offsetting’s failings

The Index-backed startup thinks machine learning holds the key to accelerating net-zero with carbon offsetting.


Connor Bilboe

4 min read

The Sylvera team.

Carbon offsetting has a bad rap. Many think corporations use it as a free ticket to excuse emissions, and measurement of actual impact remains murky and imprecise — think companies manually measuring the carbon levels of individual trees. 

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Dr Allister Furey (left) and Sam Gill (right), cofounders of Sylvera
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