mindearth.ai

MindEarth creates value by fusing satellite Earth‑observation data, mobility data and crowdsourced street‑level imagery into analytical products used for climate‑resilient urban planning, urban growth forecasting, sustainable development monitoring and building energy‑efficiency assessment. Its platforms and pipelines provide ‘what‑if’ simulations, urban growth models, super‑resolved nighttime light products and building‑level energy insights for institutional decision‑makers.

Revenue is generated through a mix of grant‑funded R&D (e.g. European Space Agency projects), contracted professional services and bespoke analytics for public authorities and institutional clients, and commercial engagements around deploying its web platforms and data products. The crowd‑mapping app is used as a supply‑side data acquisition mechanism, paying contributors per mission, while value capture occurs upstream from public‑sector and enterprise clients who fund analyses, pilots and potential platform licences or subscriptions.

MindEarth is a Switzerland‑based non‑profit and company group that develops AI and Earth‑observation–driven tools for urban planning, climate resilience and building energy analysis. It operates digital‑twin and analytics platforms that combine satellite data, mobility information and street‑level imagery, partly collected via a paid crowd‑mapping mobile app active in cities such as those in Lombardy, Italy.

The organisation generates income through European Space Agency and similar grants, B2G/B2B urban analytics and planning projects, and paid consultations and demonstrations that can lead to deployments of its platforms for municipalities, agencies, NGOs and other institutional customers. Individual mappers are compensated per mission as data suppliers rather than software customers.