Founder · Mitti Labs

Devdut Dalal

Co-founder of Mitti Labs, a climate tech & agricultural mrv company based in New York.

Co-founderNew YorkClimate Tech & Agricultural MRV
Founded
2023
New York, United States
Raised to date
$12.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
Series A
$9.5M · 2026-08-05

About

Devdut Dalal is Co-founder of Mitti Labs, a climate tech & agricultural mrv company based in New York, founded in 2023. Mitti Labs's most recent disclosed round was a funding round of $3M in 2024-07.

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Company

Est. 2023
Mitti Labs
Climate Tech & Agricultural MRV · New York · Active

Mitti Labs builds a GeoAI platform that fuses high-resolution synthetic aperture radar data with field-collected ground truth and physical models to create digital twins of rice fields at individual plot level. It uses this to implement and verify Alternate Wetting and Drying irrigation, which cuts water use and methane emissions, earning revenue from carbon credits and from selling its data and analytics.

Funding
2026-08-05Series A$9.5MAramco Ventures, Lightspeed India, Godrej Industries Group, Cisco Foundation, Francis Family Fund, Volta Circle
2024-07Seed$3MLightspeed Venture Partners, Voyager Ventures, Overview, angel investors
Company profile →2 rounds on record

Journey with Mitti Labs

4 milestones
  1. May 2023Founded

    Founded by Xavier Laguarta Soler, Devdut Dalal and Nathan Torbick to cut methane emissions from rice farming, operating from New York and Bengaluru.

  2. 2024Milestone

    Awarded Phase I of a NASA SBIR Ignite grant worth $150,000, supporting its remote sensing work on rice monitoring.

  3. May 2025Milestone

    Receives a Tier 3 issuance from Gold Standard for its rice methane carbon credits.

  4. Aug 2026Milestone

    Says its programmes have saved 500 billion litres of water to date, with 150 employees and plans for greenfield projects in the Philippines and Indonesia.

Also building Mitti Labs

XLXavier Laguarta SolerCo-founder · CEO→NTNathan TorbickCo-founder · CTO→

Coverage

1 story
Funding · 6 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Mitti Labs Raises $9.5 Million Series A Led by Aramco Ventures for Rice Methane Measurement