Spotlight on Nature-based Enterprise: Fold Ecosystemics

Droughts, landslides, storms, forest megafires, zoonoses — environmental risks have escalated sharply over recent decades, and trees are among our most decisive defences against them. They regulate water flows, cool the microclimate, stabilise the ground, and create habitat for countless species. Yet European economies still tend to value trees only for their timber, overlooking the stability they provide to humans and other living beings. Fold Ecosystemics, founded in 2025 in the heart of France's Vosges forest, is working to change that.

Built by an international team of co-founders with six years' shared experience as data analysts in environmental monitoring, Fold Ecosystemics empowers professionals and landowners to enhance the full range of benefits trees provide, through a systemic approach to wooded ecosystems. The company's guiding principle is simple: better decisions for the decades ahead require better data and greater cooperation.

At its core is a SaaS-DaaS platform offering a close-to-nature forestry statistical and planning tool, where economic variables are calculated directly from field inventories, alongside a cartography tool with layered basemaps that helps managers plan field operations with minimal impact. Where real-time microclimate or biodiversity monitoring is needed, Fold deploys proprietary in-situ sensors: low-powered, solar-run, and built for intensive outdoor use, feeding a dashboard of indices from hygrometry to bird inventories. The team also provides scientific support for protocol building, stakeholder facilitation, and communicating results. Today, the tools are used by forest managers, conservation officers, smart and green city planners, ESG managers and researchers.

Looking ahead, Fold Ecosystemics is developing tools to simulate management options and improve risk detection, with an eye on the insurance market, and sees significant potential in the responsible use of AI to augment expert knowledge while respecting a diversity of perspectives. Because, as the company puts it, derisking our environment is a collective task: its tools are designed to reconnect people, foster cooperation, and bring transparency and agency to those managing our ecosystems.

For more details: https://fold.eco/en/