Dubai - Sharikat Mubasher: Planno, a Dubai-headquartered Geospatial AI (GeoAI) platform for solar developers, successfully secured a strategic investment from the sustainability-focused venture firm Incubayt Investments.

The new funding will help Planno accelerate its international expansion beyond the Middle East and strengthen its GeoAI platform for the solar industry, the company stated in a recent statement.

Planno uses geospatial AI to scan markets at scale, identify every commercial rooftop worth pursuing, and enrich each one with the ownership, energy, and contact data solar teams need to build a pipeline.

“We want every solar developer in every market, not just the largest ones, to have proper data to work with. Incubayt’s early backing gave us the foundation to build that. We are now applying the same playbook country by country,” said Daniel Domingues, Founder and CEO of Planno.

In turn, Sami Khoreibi, Founder of Incubayt Investments, commented: “We invest in founders building globally ambitious projects from the UAE on problems that matter at scale. The solar industry has never been short of capital or sunlight. What it has lacked is intelligence. Where to build, and who owns the roof. In a data-driven economy, that insight is as valuable as the projects themselves. Planno is exactly that."

Planno has expanded from the GCC across the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the United States, with active customers ranging from regional solar developers and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firms to global energy operators.