What Moves Us - From Founders to Forests

This episode of What Moves Us welcomes Gregory Meyers, founder of TreeStock and the Rail Innovation Group's newest member. TreeStock builds digital twins of individual trees, using applied AI, lidar drones and satellite imagery to capture species, health, biomass and timber volume across whole forests. For rail, the case is direct. Millions of trees line the network, and a single storm can bring them down across the tracks at real cost. Gregory explains how mapping each tree could model wind blow risk, picking out which ones threaten the line before they fall. He also sets out the longer game, a goal to map every tree on the planet by 2030, and why so much tree surveying today still leans on methods that have barely changed in five hundred years. Before the interview, Deb, Johannah and Liam look back at the launch of the Rail Innovation Group's tenth anniversary series. It was a female founders event, held high above the city at the BT Tower.  The discussion turns on a stark figure, that female founders attract only about two per cent of all venture capital, and on a finding that flipped the premise of the event. Plenty here for anyone working where rail, data, investment and the natural environment meet.