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Sourcemap bets EUDR forces supply-chain mapping; $20M round, 5.5M suppliers
Founded 2011 as a 'Wikipedia for supply chains,' Sourcemap bet EUDR/CSDDD would make end-to-end mapping a must-buy; ECOM, Salesforce and 250+ brands use it.
Sourcemap
What the business is
Supply-chain mapping, traceability and due-diligence software: brands map suppliers down to the farm or forest, screen for deforestation with satellite imagery, and file EUDR/forced-labour compliance reports.
Starting capital：$20M Series B closed June 2023, led by Energize Ventures with MIT-affiliated E14 Fund; earlier Series A investors doubled down.
How it started
Leonardo Bonanni developed Sourcemap as a PhD project at the MIT Media Lab in 2007–2011 and founded Sourcemap Inc. in New York in 2011, one month after the Tohoku tsunami, to make supply chains visible. The product matured from transparency maps into an enterprise suite for mapping, traceability and risk monitoring as US and European due-diligence rules hardened.
What happened
The $20M Series B in June 2023 — timed weeks after the EUDR entered into force — funded expansion into EUDR compliance. Sourcemap integrated satellite-imagery deforestation screening, connected to the EU TRACES customs system, and signed ECOM, one of the world's largest cocoa and coffee traders, in December 2024 to map its indirect supply chains. In February 2025 it became the only supply-chain mapping provider integrated with Salesforce's Net Zero Cloud, covering EUDR plus CSDDD, CSRD and the EU Forced Labour Regulation.
How it ended up
Still running and scaling: as of 2026 it has 250+ brands and 5.5M+ suppliers mapped, live EU TRACES integration, and a product roadmap that reuses the same supply-chain maps for CSDDD, CSRD and the EU battery passport. The EUDR itself kept slipping — from Dec 30, 2024 to Dec 30, 2025, then to Dec 30, 2026 for large operators — but the compliance contracts kept coming.
Background
Sourcemap began as Leonardo Bonanni's MIT Media Lab PhD project — a 'Wikipedia for supply chains' that let anyone map a product's path from raw material to shelf. He founded Sourcemap Inc. in New York in 2011, and the company spent its first decade turning that mapping idea into enterprise software: end-to-end supply chain maps, transaction traceability, real-time risk monitoring and consumer-facing transparency for food, apparel, electronics and automotive brands.
The regulatory bet came into focus as US and EU due-diligence rules hardened. In June 2023 — weeks after the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) entered into force — Sourcemap closed a $20M Series B led by Energize Ventures with the MIT-affiliated E14 Fund, billing itself as the only enterprise solution covering the full suite of global supply chain due-diligence requirements. The pitch: brands would have to prove their coffee, cocoa, timber, rubber and soy were not produced on deforested land, down to farm-level geolocation, and software that automated that proof would be a must-buy.
The bet paid off even as the regulation slipped. Sourcemap added satellite-imagery deforestation screening and EU TRACES integration, and in December 2024 signed ECOM, one of the world's largest cocoa and coffee traders, to map its indirect supply chains. In February 2025 it became the only supply-chain mapping provider inside Salesforce's Net Zero Cloud, covering EUDR, CSDDD, CSRD and the EU Forced Labour Regulation. The EUDR's start date slipped from December 2024 to December 2026 for large operators, but by then Sourcemap counted 250+ brands and 5.5M suppliers.
What has to be true
- The EUDR and CSDDD turned a nice-to-have (supply chain visibility) into a legal obligation with a deadline — the same dynamic that made SOC 2 or GDPR tools must-buys for their industries.
- Sourcemap's wedge was proof, not promises: farm-level geolocation, satellite deforestation screening and EU TRACES reporting were exactly the artifacts regulators demanded.
- The maps are reusable across regulations — the same n-tier map feeds EUDR, CSDDD, CSRD and battery-passport reporting — so each new EU rule expanded the addressable market without new product work.
- Enterprise partnerships (ECOM, Salesforce) gave it distribution into the industries most exposed to EUDR — coffee, cocoa and consumer goods — rather than selling to sustainability teams one by one.
What can be applied
When a regulation mandates proof, the product is the paperwork: Sourcemap automated EUDR farm geolocation and customs reporting, then rode follow-on rules that reuse the same maps.
Aftermath
As of 2026-09-02 Sourcemap is live and scaling from New York, Chicago and Paris: 250+ brands and 5.5M suppliers mapped, TIME Best Inventions 2022 for its forced-labour solution, and partnerships with ECOM (Dec 2024) and Salesforce Net Zero Cloud (Feb 2025). Its suite covers EUDR, CSDDD, CSRD, the EU Forced Labour Regulation and the battery passport, with live EU TRACES integration. The EUDR now applies Dec 30, 2026 for medium/large operators and June 30, 2027 for micro/small ones, so the deadline driving demand has not fully arrived. No exit or new round has been reported.
Sources
- Sourcemap Raises $20M Series B to Launch Real-Time Supply Chain Mapping and Monitoring Software
- Sourcemap Raises $20 Million Series B
- ECOM Partners with Sourcemap for EUDR Compliance
- Sourcemap partners with Salesforce to Bring EUDR Compliance Automation to Net Zero Cloud
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products
- EU: changes to Deforestation Regulation reach the finish line
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