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Insight Terra Is Launched By Inmarsat, Atlantic Bridge Capital + Civic Connect To Deliver Real-Time Mining Sector Actionable Insights

August 5, 2021

Inmarsat, Atlantic Bridge and Civic Connect have launched Insight Terra to respond to the risk management and environmental monitoring needs of mining organisations worldwide.

The new entity builds on Tailings Insight – an award-winning integrated solution for monitoring mine tailings facilities in real-time, and the cloud-based Insight Platform – the technology that underpins the solution, resulting from Inmarsat’s two year collaboration with Civic Connect.

To drive its aggressive growth strategy, Insight Terra has secured $5.45 million in Series A funding, led by Atlantic Bridge, with additional participation from Globalive and JLR Star. Civic Connect will be the majority owner of Insight Terra initially, while Inmarsat will retain an equity stake in Insight Terra and a seat on the new company’s board of directors.

Insight Terra provides a fully integrated end-to-end data management solution for the mining sector, built around three core elements:

Edge-based data ingestion, validation and aggregation from sensors, historians and other data sources Inmarsat’s global, all-weather L-band satellite connectivity, to ensure ultra-reliable real-time data transfer from the mine site to the cloud-based Insight Platform; and The Insight Platform that curates and validates the data to make it available in real-time on a visually compelling customizable dashboard

While monitoring mine tailings is a key focus initially, the solution will be used to support a multitude of environmental and infrastructure monitoring use cases more broadly in mining, including water management and pit wall stability. Outside of the mining sector, use cases for geo-hazard monitoring and risk management in adjacent sectors include freshwater reservoirs, hydroelectric dams, landslide monitoring and other critical infrastructure monitoring.

Insight Terra CEO, Alastair Bovim, said, “We are delighted to have established Insight Terra as an independent and agile company that will provide our customers in the mining sector with a proven enterprise-grade risk management solution that works anywhere. The formation of Insight Terra as a specialized Platform-as-a-Service provider by Inmarsat, along with funding from Atlantic Bridge, will enable us to help mining companies monitor their tailings facilities and manage associated risks more effectively. This will be key as the sector faces increasing pressure to comply with the new global industry standard for tailings management, and to meet Environmental, Social, and Governance requirements from investors and regulators. Beyond tailings monitoring we will be developing additional innovative environmental monitoring offerings, to support use cases that drive actionable insight.”

Gregory Curtin, Ph.D., Founder of Civic Connect, will be joining Insight Terra as its President, partnering with Mr. Bovim to chart the new company’s strategic direction. Dr. Curtin said, “The entire Civic Connect team is excited to be a key part in the launch of Insight Terra, and to be leading the global market for environmental and infrastructure risk management at such a critical time given the exigencies of climate change, the pandemic and global digital transformation. Insight Terra has an incredibly important role to play in protecting people from the environment, and the environment from people, during these challenging times.”

Commenting on the launch, Mike Carter, President, Inmarsat Enterprise, said, “Inmarsat’s L-band connectivity is uniquely suited to enabling environmental monitoring solutions where reliable, real-time data transfer is paramount. We are proud to be supporting Insight Terra’s growth with both our connectivity and strategic investment, and will work closely with the team to ensure mining organisations across the globe can operate more efficiently, safely and sustainably.”

Kevin Dillon, Managing Partner at Atlantic Bridge, said, “Insight Terra is uniquely positioned to deliver environmental risk management solutions to its customers with differentiated technology and a world class, very experienced management team. We are thrilled to be co-leading the investment round and strongly believe that Insight Terra will deliver great value to its customers and provide a true ESG solution to the industries it serves.”

Filed Under: Business Moves, Cloud Computing, Funding, Mining, Partnerships, Satellites

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