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GreenTask

A verified environmental impact marketplace for emerging markets

Workers get paid for climate micro-jobs. Organisations get verified impact. We earn commission on every job and build carbon-generating assets.

The Problem

Two sides of the same gap

For workers in emerging markets

  • 40% youth unemployment in Nigeria
  • Women in rural communities lack access to formal employment
  • Existing environmental work (tree planting, waste cleanup) is informal, unverified, and poorly paid

For organisations

  • NGOs struggle to mobilise and verify environmental work at scale
  • Corporates have CSR budgets but no way to deploy them into verified, trackable climate action
  • Carbon credit projects fail because nobody monitors whether trees survive after planting
The Solution

A two-sided impact marketplace

Supply side

Workers (starting with 1,000 women through our NGO partner SheCanDo) pick up paid environmental micro-jobs through our mobile app. Tree planting, waste collection, biodiversity monitoring, land restoration.

Demand side

NGOs, corporate CSR departments, and local governments post jobs and pay through the platform. Verified impact reports generated automatically.

Verification layer

Every job is verified through GPS geofencing, camera-only capture (no gallery uploads), cryptographic signing, and AI-powered image analysis. Machine-verified, not self-reported.

How money flows

Demand

Organisations

Platform

GreenTask (10-15% commission)

Supply

Workers

How assets compound

Surplus capital

GreenTask

Same workers + verification

Teak plantations

GreenTask-owned

Carbon credits + Timber

Revenue Model

Four compounding revenue layers

Year 1+

Platform Commission

10-15% on every micro-job. Capital-light, recurring. Pure variable cost model with no employment overhead.

Year 2+

Verification-as-a-Service

The AI verification engine becomes a standalone product. Other reforestation projects and carbon credit developers pay to use GreenTask's MRV (monitoring, reporting, verification) infrastructure.

Year 3-5+

Carbon Credit Revenue

Deploy surplus capital into teak/mahogany plantations through the same worker network and verification infrastructure. Credits sell year-over-year at appreciating prices. First sale after Year 3 verification.

Year 10-15+

Timber Appreciation

Teak is one of the world's most valuable tropical hardwoods. West African FOB prices: $200-300/m³. Thinning harvests at Year 10 and 15 generate additional revenue.

Financial Model

Comprehensive Revenue Model

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Traction & Partnerships

What we have done so far

Nov 2025

2nd place at International hAIckathon

250+ participants, 30+ countries

Dec 2025 - Present

Built entire tech stack

Flutter mobile apps, NestJS backend, admin panel, partner panel, AI verification engine, Flutterwave payments

Feb 2026

Accepted into NCTA accelerator

Sustainable Ventures + Barclays Eagle Labs

Feb 2026

YC application: top 10% signal

Recommendation to reapply with traction

Feb 2026

App live on iOS and Android

Mar 2026 - Present

LOI being signed with SheCanDo

Women's empowerment NGO. 1,000 women workers. Breaking gender biases through environmental micro-jobs.

Honest status: No revenue yet. No paying customers yet. The app is live, the LOI is signed, and we are ready to execute with capital.

Market Opportunity

A market that is growing fast

$10B+

Big Tech carbon removal commitments

Microsoft & Google alone. 68.4M credits purchased in 2025 (181% YoY). ~$1B/yr addressable as platform commission.

$2.5B

Voluntary carbon market in 2025

Projected $19.8B+ by 2035 (25% CAGR)

300M

Tonnes of carbon credits Africa could retire annually by 2030

Scaling to 1.5–2.5 GtCO₂e by 2050. $6B mobilised by 2030.

$24

High-quality ARR credit price per tCO₂ (Sept 2025)

Up from $14 at start of year. BBB+ rated credits avg. $26/t.

~$3.90

Nigeria agroforestry carbon sequestration cost per tonne

Among the lowest production costs globally

$25–50

ARR credit forward prices for upcoming vintages

Microsoft Sierra Leone offtake est. $25–45/t. Google/Mombak est. ~$50/t.

TAM / SAM / SOM

Comparable companies

Greenspark

UK / Global

$11.2M raised (Series A, Jan 2024). Impact-as-a-Service SaaS for e-commerce. 1,000+ business customers. 3.6M trees planted, 39.3M kg CO₂ offset, 1.9M plastic bottles rescued.

SaaS offset widget for Western brands — no on-ground marketplace, no African worker engagement, no carbon credit ownership.

Mombak

Brazil

$250M+ raised. Offtake contracts with Microsoft (1.5M credits) and Google (200K+ tonnes). Part of Symbiosis Coalition with Microsoft, Google, Meta, Salesforce.

Does reforestation + carbon credits but NO marketplace layer.

Rainforest Builder

West Africa

1.8M carbon removal credits sold to Microsoft over 15 years (Feb 2026). Project Buffalo in Sierra Leone — 10M+ trees, 2,500+ employees.

Direct employment model, no platform.

Tourba

Nigeria

Carbon farming with smallholders. 15K hectares achieved across Niger and Nasarawa states. Targeting 1M hectares by 2030.

Agroforestry focus, no marketplace platform.

Pachama

Global

AI-driven carbon credit marketplace using satellite imagery and LiDAR verification. $88M+ raised. 800+ customers including Microsoft, Salesforce, Netflix.

Trading layer only, no planting.

GreenTask's differentiation: Only company combining a commission-earning impact marketplace with carbon credit asset ownership and continuous AI-powered verification. Capital-light platform model vs capital-heavy project developer model.

Team

The people building this

D

Devansh Karia

Technical Co-founder

Built the entire tech stack solo. Flutter, NestJS, AI verification engine, payment integration. Based in London.

D

Dolapo

Co-founder & CEO

Partnerships, government relations, on-ground operations in West Africa. Nigerian with existing government relationships.

V

Vivek

Marketing

LinkedIn strategy, content, brand building.

P

Pranav

Networking & BD

Investor outreach, partnership development.

The Ask

Raising pre-seed

£1.5M

Pre-seed round

£800KTeam & operations

Key hires: ops lead, partnerships, field coordinators

£350KFirst planting cohorts

~300K+ trees via SheCanDo & future NGO partners

£50KTech & product

Platform scaling, AI verification engine, mobile apps

£150KRegulatory & compliance

Verra registration, MRV setup, carbon credit certification

£150KMarketing & client acquisition

Corporate & NGO pipeline development

What this gets us to

  • Platform commission revenue from NGO and corporate clients
  • 300K+ trees planted and verified (real asset on balance sheet)
  • First carbon credit verification cycle initiated
  • Full-time team on the ground in Nigeria
  • Multiple client partnerships signed and generating GMV
  • Data and traction for YC reapplication and seed round

Seed target

£3–5M at ~£15–20M valuation

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