About Biodivex
The Measurement Problem Was Solvable. Nobody Had Solved It.
Founded in Portland, Oregon in 2025. Bootstrapped and independently operated — no investor whose return horizon conflicts with scientific integrity. Built to serve both sides of the biodiversity market with the same standard: organism-level evidence, not land-cover proxies.
Our Story
The Gap Between Offset Claims and Ecological Reality
In 2023, Rohan Pillai was reviewing a corporate biodiversity disclosure for a Pacific Northwest agricultural company. The offset the company had purchased cited 380 hectares of "restored riparian habitat." When Rohan asked for species data, the provider sent a land cover map. No eDNA. No acoustic survey. No species list. The offsetting claim was built entirely on the assumption that planting native vegetation would return native fauna — an assumption the peer-reviewed literature on restoration ecology treats with significant caution.
He connected with Selin Arslan, a molecular ecologist then finishing her PhD at University of Oregon, who had spent three years running eDNA metabarcoding surveys for state wildlife agencies across the Willamette Valley. The tools to detect actual species presence were mature. The infrastructure to connect those tools to a credit market did not exist.
Biodivex was incorporated in Portland in early 2025. We enrolled our first three sites — a riparian corridor in Tillamook County, a forest stand in Polk County, and a wetland complex in Umatilla County — in the spring 2025 sampling window. All three completed BHI verification by that autumn. Scientific credibility before scale. That sequence will not change.
How We Operate
How We Operate, Stated Plainly
The Data Decides, Not the Deal
If the eDNA sequencing and acoustic data don't produce a BHI score above 60, no credit is issued. We do not adjust scoring thresholds to protect enrollment numbers. Sites that don't qualify get honest data, a written explanation, and recommendations — not a repackaged claim at a lower price point.
Supply-Side Economics That Don't Extract
Land managers receive 85% of every credit sale. We earn a 15% transaction fee — nothing on enrollment, nothing on monitoring. We absorb all verification costs regardless of whether a site qualifies. The data record is yours; we retain it only for longitudinal scientific purposes, not for resale.
No Claims We Cannot Substantiate
We do not claim TNFD certification, IPBES endorsement, or ISO compliance — none of those exist for biodiversity credits. We say "designed with TNFD LEAP guidance in mind" because that is precisely what we did. Our documentation is structured to support disclosures; whether it satisfies any specific disclosure requirement is for your advisor to confirm, not us to assert.
Geographic Focus Is an Integrity Claim
We do not operate nationally. We operate in the Pacific Northwest, where our reference databases are calibrated, our field team knows the ecosystems, and our BHI baselines have empirical grounding. Claiming coverage we don't have is the fastest route to exactly the kind of proxy-metric problem we exist to solve.
Meet the Team
Molecular ecologists, environmental bioinformaticians, field surveyors, and conservation finance specialists — four people who work every enrolled site directly. No outsourced field teams in the current cohort.
Our Team