Plantd is an American advanced-materials manufacturer based in Oxford, North Carolina, founded in 2021 by former SpaceX engineers Nathan Silvernail (CEO) and Huade Tan (CTO) with Josh Dorfman (CMO). The company grows and harvests fast-growing perennial grass on farms across North Carolina and Virginia and presses it into carbon-negative structural building panels intended to replace oriented strand board (OSB), plywood and other timber-based sheathing. Production runs on a modular, all-electric, closed-loop manufacturing platform in a 150,000+ sq ft facility, with a research farm in Stovall, NC. Customers and partners include homebuilder D.R. Horton and furniture brand Studio TK. Plantd has raised roughly $47.5M across seed, Series A and a $22M Series B (October 2025). Plantd is a physical-goods manufacturer: it publishes no developer program, no public API, and no machine-readable API contract of any kind — this profile records that absence rather than an API surface.
Plantd is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Building Materials, Manufacturing, Construction, and Sustainability.
Plantd’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 6 more developer resources.
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aid: plantd
name: Plantd
description: 'Plantd is an American advanced-materials manufacturer based in Oxford, North Carolina, founded in 2021 by former
SpaceX engineers Nathan Silvernail (CEO) and Huade Tan (CTO) with Josh Dorfman (CMO). The company grows and harvests fast-growing
perennial grass on farms across North Carolina and Virginia and presses it into carbon-negative structural building panels
intended to replace oriented strand board (OSB), plywood and other timber-based sheathing. Production runs on a modular,
all-electric, closed-loop manufacturing platform in a 150,000+ sq ft facility, with a research farm in Stovall, NC. Customers
and partners include homebuilder D.R. Horton and furniture brand Studio TK. Plantd has raised roughly $47.5M across seed,
Series A and a $22M Series B (October 2025). Plantd is a physical-goods manufacturer: it publishes no developer program,
no public API, and no machine-readable API contract of any kind — this profile records that absence rather than an API surface.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/plantd/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
probe_state: none
source:
- security
generated: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/625f19c458e42f47692e03b8/626c2af7a62122515767dbe0_favicon-plantd-256x256-2.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Building Materials
- Manufacturing
- Construction
- Sustainability
- Carbon Removal
- Climate Tech
- Advanced Materials
- Agriculture
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/plantd-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.plantdmaterials.com/
- type: Blog
url: https://www.plantdmaterials.com/blog
- type: About
url: https://www.plantdmaterials.com/about
- type: Careers
url: https://www.plantdmaterials.com/careers
- type: Press
url: https://www.plantdmaterials.com/press-media
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/plantdmaterials/
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-26'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 2
pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: not-a-software-company
detail: Plantd manufactures carbon-negative structural building panels pressed from perennial grass; its entire web presence
is a six-page Webflow marketing site (home, about, product, blog, careers, press) with no developer portal, no /api path,
no GitHub organisation and no package on any registry.
evidence:
- url: https://www.plantdmaterials.com/openapi.json
status: 404
- url: https://www.plantdmaterials.com/api-docs
status: 404
- url: https://www.plantdmaterials.com/graphql
status: 404
- url: https://www.plantdmaterials.com/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://www.plantdmaterials.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 404
- url: https://www.plantdmaterials.com/developers
status: 404
- url: https://api.github.com/orgs/plantd
status: 404
- url: https://www.plantdmaterials.com/
status: 200
checked: '2026-08-26'
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