Epoch builds a first-mile supply-chain intelligence platform that uses geospatial AI, satellite data and agentic research to help platforms, corporations, suppliers and small and mid-sized businesses map raw-material origins and automate environmental and regulatory compliance.
- Founders
- Jinal Surti · co-founder and CEO
He graduated in engineering from the University of Waterloo, earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, was the first product-marketing hire at Ripple and later spent nearly three years as Head of Asset Management at Menai Financial.
- William Ouellette · co-founder and CTO
Before Epoch he co-founded and served as CTO of SoilWatch, where he built an MRV solution for the voluntary carbon market; he also built solutions for the UN FAO, World Bank and Spacebel and holds an MS in Earth Observation from KU Leuven and a BS in Environmental Sciences from University College Utrecht.
- Customers
- Lujeri Tea, Golden Agri Resources, ESF Seafood
WHY IT MATTERS
Epoch addresses the problem that small and mid-sized businesses must prove where regulated commodities were produced for EUDR compliance even though suppliers often cannot provide plot-level coordinates, by using one first-mile analysis to generate cited evidence and a Due Diligence Statement. The $4.25M seed round brings total funding to $6.26M and is being used for product, infrastructure and commercial growth behind a platform that the company says has screened more than 12,000 suppliers in six months and is available to more than 30,000 enterprises through partners.