EarthDaily Analytics

Graeme Shaw is identified as the lead investor for EarthDaily, and the firm was created in partnership with Antarctica Capital, an investment firm that seeds and operates technology and infrastructure companies. The governance structure beyond Shaw and Antarctica Capital is not publicly detailed.

EarthDaily operates as an end-to-end geospatial intelligence company organized into three integrated layers: upstream (satellite constellation and ground infrastructure), midstream (image data products and AI-ready processing), and downstream (industry-specific analytics applications). This vertical integration — from raw photon capture to customer-facing crop intelligence or defense analytics — distinguishes it from pure-play satellite operators or resellers of third-party imagery.

Acquired in 2024, Descartes Labs contributed an established geospatial AI platform that EarthDaily uses to run predictive models at scale. It also adds a customer base and technical team with deep experience in government and enterprise analytics, positioning EarthDaily to deliver AI-ready data products and applications without relying on external modeling platforms.

EarthDaily names four verticals: agriculture (crop health, yield forecasting), mining (mineral discovery, site monitoring), environmental risk (climate impact assessment, property monitoring), and defense and intelligence (infrastructure monitoring, security). Insurtech applications, such as parametric crop and livestock products, are an emerging fifth area, as demonstrated by the Liberty Mutual Reinsurance collaboration in Colombia.

Yes. In 2025, the US National Reconnaissance Office selected EarthDaily for a $1.2 million commercial optical Earth observation contract to support intelligence-community use of its data. The firm also created a dedicated subsidiary, EarthDaily Federal, which joined the INSA Space Intelligence Council in 2025.

EarthDaily was created in partnership with Antarctica Capital and led by investor Graeme Shaw. In 2025, Trinity Capital provided funding alongside the satellite launch campaign. The capital structure beyond these named entities is not disclosed, and EarthDaily does not publicize total capital raised, AUM, or current ownership percentages.

EarthDaily builds, launches, and operates its own purpose-built 10-satellite constellation in sun-synchronous orbit, rather than aggregating or reselling imagery from multiple third-party satellites. This single-constellation approach allows it to maintain uniform calibration, consistent revisit rates, and science-grade data quality across its entire archive.