NatureQuant

Description

NatureQuant delivers technology solutions to assess and promote exposure to nature and to combat nature deficit with proactive tech tools designed to improve overall wellbeing. NatureQuant achieves this mission via their two apps, NatureScore and NatureDose. NatureScore® measures the amount of natural elements that optimize your health within a one-km radius of your location. NatureDose® is a personalized nature prescription mobile app that monitors your aggregate time inside, outside, and exposed to nature. Through new tech tools, machine learning, and big-data, NatureQuant provides tools designed to fully leverage nature's impact.

What Makes it Regenerative?

• enables access & participation
• enables measuring & monitoring
• creates network effects
• enables learning & knowledge sharing
• supports human & animal well being
• helps inspire

Business Model

NatureQuant's business model is computing services provided to researchers, scientists, and businesses seeking to quantify and optimize places and health for nature exposure.

Risks & Limitations

• Technological challenges due to nascent and incomplete field of nature quantification data-sources
• Competition from an increasingly competitive field with tech giants and startups investing heavily in research and development
• Limited applications may make it difficult to finding practical and commercially viable use cases, especially in the short term
• Quantification of nature can decontextualize from complexity and dynamism of factors
• Platform growth requires specialized skills and expertise that may make it difficult to find and retaining talent