# Descartes Labs — Vendor Intelligence Profile
> Source: Vedex (https://vedex.ai) | Generated: 2026-10-05T08:37:26.646Z

## Overview

- **Vendor Type**: data_provider
- **Headquarters**: USA
- **Year Founded**: 2014
- **Employee Count**: 75
- **Description**: Mitigate inflation and price volatility with an underutilized source of edge in the markets: geospatial intelligence. Descartes Labs' packaged analytics provide market price forecasts for the world’s most liquid exchange-traded agricultural futures and derivatives.
- **Slogan**: Geospatial intelligence to see the world as it is
- **Domain**: descarteslabs.com
- **Contact Email**: support@descarteslabs.com
- **Company Website**: https://descarteslabs.com/resources/

## Categories & Sectors

- **Categories**: Financial Services Data, Geospatial Data, Providers, Resources Data, Satellite, Satellite Data
- **Sectors**: Agriculture, Energy, Supply Chain, Government

## Marketplace Presence

- **Source Platforms**: alternativedata_org, aws_marketplace, datarade
- **Platform Count**: 3
- **Delivery Methods**: API, Raw, Platform Based, Research Reports, Custom Analysis
- **Geographic Coverage**: Agriculture, China, Consumer, Energy, Financial Services

## Intelligence Scores

- **Vendor Score**: 49
- **Market Presence**: 42.7
- **Trust & Compliance**: 49
- **Integration**: 58
- **AI Readiness**: 45
- **Business Maturity**: 60
- **Support & Operations**: 67.5

## Trust & Compliance (vendor-reported)

> These are the vendor's own attestations as collected from public sources, not Vedex's. Verify directly with the vendor.

- **Trust Score**: 57/100 (based on vendor-reported attestations, not verified by vedex)
- **SOC 2 Type II**: In progress
- **ISO 27001 Certified**: No
- **GDPR Compliance**: Fully compliant (DPA available)
- **Encryption Standards**: AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2+ in transit
- **Penetration Testing**: Annual third-party penetration testing
- **Historical Breach Record**: No public incident found in our search (unverified)
- **Data Residency Options**: US
- **Written Compliance Policies**: Data privacy, Information security, Intellectual property

## AI & ML Readiness

- **LLM-Friendly Output Formats**: Structured JSON with schemas, Parquet with metadata
- **File Formats Supported**: Parquet, CSV, JSON, Avro, ORC
- **SDK Languages**: Python

## Business & Funding

- **Funding Stage**: Acquired
- **Key Customers**: Cargill, Nestlé, US Department of Defense, Chevron
- **Key Partnerships**: SAP, Esri, Google Cloud, AWS, Intel

## Competitors

- **Competitors**: MBI Geodata, Mapping Resources, SafeGraph, Space Know

## Products

### Satellite Imagery Analytics Platform
Scalable cloud-native platform for massive geospatial data processing.
- **Pricing**: Contact for pricing
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/satellite-imagery-analytics-platform-beef4f/llms.txt

### Data Refinery
Powerful cloud-based processing for massive geospatial datasets.
- **Pricing**: Contact for pricing
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/data-refinery-0fe386/llms.txt

### Geospatial Data Platform
Scalable cloud-based processing for massive geospatial datasets.
- **Pricing**: Contact for pricing
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/geospatial-data-platform-2807d4/llms.txt

### Soybean Meal Price Forecasts
Daily price forecasts for soybean meal providing early insight into supply and demand factors for trading professionals.
- **Pricing**: $10,000
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/soybean-meal-price-forecasts-33ad93/llms.txt

### Satellite Imagery Catalog
Access to multi-source satellite imagery including Airbus OneAtlas and Satellogic high-resolution data.
- **Pricing**: $10,000
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/satellite-imagery-catalog-4818cf/llms.txt

### Geospatial and Environmental Analytics
Predictive analytics for crop yields and monitoring of global supply chains using satellite and environmental data.
- **Pricing**: $10,000
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/geospatial-and-environmental-analytics-54f6bf/llms.txt

### Agricultural Market Price Forecasts
Packaged analytics providing market price forecasts for liquid exchange-traded agricultural futures and derivatives.
- **Pricing**: $10,000
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/agricultural-market-price-forecasts-67a3b8/llms.txt

### Commodity Price Forecasts
Predictive analytics for agricultural commodities based on geospatial intelligence and supply/demand factors.
- **Pricing**: $10,000
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/commodity-price-forecasts-a3e8a5/llms.txt

### Descartes Labs Platform
A cloud-based geospatial intelligence platform for analyzing satellite imagery, remote sensing, and diverse complementary datasets.
- **Pricing**: $10,000
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/descartes-labs-platform-e78190/llms.txt

### Descartes Labs Enterprise Accelerator
A platform for globally scalable raster data analysis, allowing users to prototype and deploy Python-based processing workflows.
- **Pricing**: $150,000
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/descartes-labs-enterprise-accelerator-51950b/llms.txt

### Descartes Labs Non-Raster Datasets
Derived analytical datasets produced from geospatial imagery for end-user consumption.
- **Pricing**: $87,500
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/descartes-labs-non-raster-datasets-737ed2/llms.txt

### Descartes Labs Geospatial Analytics Platform
A cloud-native platform that processes massive amounts of satellite and sensor data to provide actionable insights.
- **Pricing**: $275,000
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/descartes-labs-geospatial-analytics-platform-7dd0c2/llms.txt

## Links

- Vedex Profile: https://vedex.ai/vendor/descartes-labs-eb4ead
- Due Diligence: https://vedex.ai/due-diligence/descartes-labs-eb4ead