WHO WE ARE

The hearts of ecologists. The brains of business people.

The hearts of ecologists. The brains of business people.

The hearts of ecologists. The brains of business people.

Map of Life Solutions is built on intellectual property licensed from Yale University. We took fifteen years of science that tracks every species on Earth and built a company around one job: turning it into decisions people can act on and defend.

Map of Life Solutions is built on intellectual property licensed from Yale University. We took fifteen years of science that tracks every species on Earth and built a company around one job: turning it into decisions people can act on and defend.

Nature should be counted in a unit everyone can check. For us that unit is the species: the building block of every ecosystem, and something science can measure anywhere on Earth. We built the exchange rate from species to services to dollars, and we’re putting it in the hands of the people whose decisions move the needle.

Nature should be counted in a unit everyone can check. For us that unit is the species: the building block of every ecosystem, and something science can measure anywhere on Earth. We built the exchange rate from species to services to dollars, and we’re putting it in the hands of the people whose decisions move the needle.

HOW WE WORK

Four things we won’t compromise on.

Four things we won’t compromise on.

Four things we won’t compromise on.

01

Species are the unit

Every number we produce traces back to the species behind it. No black-box index. If you ask why a site scored the way it did, we can show you which species, which pressure, and what changed since 2001.

02

Plain language, always

Outputs a procurement lead, a loan officer or a minister can read without a biologist in the room. Every metric ships with a short read-me.

03

We say what you may claim

And what you may not. We will never promise a claim a standard does not allow, and we are honest about what the science can and cannot yet say about a single practice.

04

Commercial funds public

Revenue from commercial work goes back into the science underneath, and the national data stays free for non-commercial use on mol.org.

THE LICENSE AND THE SCIENCE

Fifteen years of science, licensed exclusively, still compounding.

Fifteen years of science, licensed exclusively, still compounding.

Fifteen years of science, licensed exclusively, still compounding.

Map of Life Solutions operates under an exclusive license to foundational intellectual property from Yale University. The company is founded on research by Dr. Walter Jetz, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and the inventor of the licensed technology.

Map of Life Solutions operates under an exclusive license to foundational intellectual property from Yale University. The company is founded on research by Dr. Walter Jetz, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and the inventor of the licensed technology.

Dr. Walter Jetz (Yale University) serves as our Chief Science Advisor. He co-authored the Essential Biodiversity Variables framework our data runs on, and the Species Habitat Index and Species Protection Index, developed by his research group, are component indicators in the UN Global Biodiversity Framework.

15 yrs

15 yrs

of research behind the model

450,000+

450,000+

species modeled and refreshed every year

40K+

40K+

researchers and NGOs on the free mol.org platform

260+

260+

countries and territories covered

WHERE WE STARTED, WHERE WE’RE GOING

From a research map to the species layer the market runs on.

From a research map to the species layer the market runs on.

From a research map to the species layer the market runs on.

2012

Map of Life launches as a research initiative led by Dr. Walter Jetz.

2021

First high-resolution, continental-scale species distribution models.

2022

Three Map of Life indicators adopted into the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at COP15.

2024

First Species Protection Report. Second place in the five-year XPRIZE Rainforest competition.

2025

Map of Life Solutions forms with industry veterans.

2026

SAVE Package v1.0 ships. RISK in paid pilot with a major agricultural trader. IMPACT piloting. A national biodiversity information system running on our data, hosted in-country.

Frog on a branch

PROVEN IN THE RAINFOREST

Survey a rainforest in 24 hours. Make sense of it in 48.

Survey a rainforest in 24 hours. Make sense of it in 48.

Survey a rainforest in 24 hours. Make sense of it in 48.

The Map of Life Rapid Assessments team took second place in XPRIZE Rainforest, the global competition to find the most innovative technology for exploring Earth’s biodiversity. Drones, new sensors and geospatial AI, proving that non-invasive, scalable monitoring can change how conservation gets done.

That same field kit (drones, eDNA, acoustics, camera traps) is how we ground-truth the models for clients today.

WINNER OF

XPRIZE Rainforest

COME WORK WITH US

Use it, build on it, or help build it.

Use it, build on it, or help build it.

Use it, build on it, or help build it.

The data is free for non-commercial use on mol.org, licensable for everything else, and the team that makes it is hiring.

The data is free for non-commercial use on mol.org, licensable for everything else, and the team that makes it is hiring.

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