Epoch raises $4.25m seed and opens EUDR compliance to small firms

Epoch raises $4.25m seed and opens EUDR compliance to small firms

26 October 2026: Epoch, a London company that uses geospatial AI to trace raw materials back to the farms, plantations and mines they come from, says it has raised a $4.25 million seed round led by Burnt Island Ventures and Sand River. The round brings its total funding to $6.26 million. With it, Epoch has launched a self-serve product that prepares EU Deforestation Regulation paperwork for small and mid-sized businesses, which until now could reach it only through larger platforms.

Not yet independently verified. This rests on Epoch's own announcement. Its page does not state the company's founding year, and the EUDR application dates are given here as Epoch states them; we have not checked them against the Commission's text for this item. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

Christine Boyle, a partner at Burnt Island Ventures, has joined Epoch's board. The company says the money will go into product, infrastructure and its commercial team.

Mapping the first mile without asking suppliers

Most supply chain compliance starts with a questionnaire to suppliers. Epoch's argument is that the questionnaire fails at the first mile: smallholders growing cocoa, coffee or rubber rarely hold plot coordinates, and the company says China and Indonesia now restrict what suppliers may share even with their own customers abroad.

Epoch instead starts from whatever a customer already holds, even a list of supplier names. It locates supplier facilities, identifies the plots where goods are produced and assesses deforestation and legality risk, then produces a Due Diligence Statement with each finding cited, ready to submit to the EU's TRACES information system. Compliance teams can work in Epoch's own platform or through general AI assistants they already use.

"Supply chain compliance has been built on questionnaires, audits and certifications, and that toolkit is incomplete," said Jinal Surti, co-founder and chief executive. The company's other co-founder is William Ouellette, its chief technology officer.

Partners give it reach before the direct launch

Large companies reach Epoch through software they already run. Epoch says it has partnerships with Altana, Assent, Resilinc and 3E, each of which has integrated its data or is doing so, giving more than 30,000 enterprises access. It says it has screened more than 12,000 suppliers for enterprise customers in the past six months, and that the team is 14 people.

The regulation covers cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood products placed on the EU market. Epoch says it applies to large and medium operators from 30 December 2026 and to most micro and small operators from 30 June 2027, which is why it is opening the product to smaller importers now.

Other tools in our catalogue

Our supply chain management software category lists 19 products and our sustainability software category 16. Epoch's partners sit closer to the first group, and Epoch supplies the plot-level data their workflows lack.

The company has also hired a head of partnerships and sales leads for EMEA and North America, and says it will use the same first-mile analysis for further supply chain regulations as they arrive.

Company profile on TrustList: Epoch

Sources

• Epoch: Epoch Raises $6.26M to Equip Supply Chain Compliance Professionals with AI, 26 October 2026