An ecosystem monitoring company which has experienced “significant growth” over the last three years has taken new space at Exeter Science Park.
Quanterra Systems, a spin out from the University of Exeter founded in 2021, monitors carbon flows between ecosystems and atmosphere for nature-based solutions, regenerative agriculture and ecosystem science projects. Its work is delivered in the UK, US, Uganda and Brazil.
The company has moved from its existing facility in the net zero George Parker Bidder building, to a space which is almost 50% bigger.
In the three years since it was established, Quanterra has grown to nine employees and has outgrown its workspace. The company’s chief executive, Beccy Mitchell, expects the business to grow “fairly substantially” in the next five years.
She said: “To be in a position where we can move from one location to another within the Science Park works very well for us because we don’t know when that growth is going to happen. So having that kind of flexibility of options is very helpful.”
Quanterra Systems focuses on monitoring carbon flows from the ecosystem to the broader atmosphere and vice versa, using data to understand whether the flows of carbon are improved by taking different approaches to farming.
Ms Mitchell added: “We’re an environmental monitoring business and that means that quite a lot of our employees and team feel quite passionately about the environment and spend a lot of their leisure time doing things in the natural world. Being close to the moors, being close to the sea, being in a position where we can access other places, including big cities quite readily is very important.”
Jason Buck, senior business development manager at Exeter Science Park, said it was “great” to see the growth of the Quanterra team.
“At Exeter Science Park we have organisations at varying stages of their lifecycles, from those who are going through rapid growth to others who are scaling up and more mature companies looking for longer term leases and larger space,” he added.
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