The company

Bringing clarity to
the wild.

Vale builds the imaging systems - software, sensors, and optics - that turn raw imagery into a clear, actionable picture of wildlife and the land they live on.

Our mission

Make monitoring wildlife efficient enough to actually do it.

For decades, understanding a wild population meant slow, manual, expensive work - and the data was old before it was useful. Vale started with a simple conviction: the imagery already exists, or is cheap to capture. What's missing is a way to turn it into insight at the speed decisions are actually made.

So we built one system that does both: sensors to capture the field, and a platform to read it - yours or ours, from a single trail camera to a fleet of vehicle-mounted payloads.

Vale

“In a world filled with noise, Vale offers clarity and precision.”

What we value

How we work.

01

Clarity over noise

The field is full of data and short on answers. We build to surface the signal - and nothing we ship is justified by novelty alone.

02

Built for the field

Our hardware lives outdoors and our users work far from a desk. If it doesn't hold up in the rain at 2,000 feet, it isn't done.

03

Open by default

The platform reads imagery from anyone's sensors, not just ours. We'd rather earn the work than lock you in.

04

Respect for the wild

We exist to help people understand and protect wildlife. That purpose sits behind every decision we make.

Our team

Engineers, scientists, and field hands.

A small team spanning computer vision, optics, embedded hardware, and wildlife science - united by the belief that good data should be easy to get.

Joseph Porter Founder / CEO
Joseph Porter Founder / CEOAI & Strategy
Tanner Metzmeier Founder / CTO
Tanner Metzmeier Founder / CTOENGINEERING & Product

Careers

Help us read the wild.

We're hiring across engineering, field science, and go-to-market. If you want your work outdoors and in the data at the same time, we'd like to talk.

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