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Fair Supply
Fair Supply is a Sydney-based ESG risk-intelligence SaaS company that maps global supply chains up to 10 tiers deep. Founded in 2019 by human rights lawyer Kimberly Randle and industrial mathematician Dr Arne Geschke, it uses a Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) methodology across more than 60 billion mapped supply-chain connections to help companies and investors measure and manage modern slavery, Scope 1-3 carbon emissions, biodiversity and water-use risk. Dubbed the 'Google for ESG', it turns a supplier list and annual spend into auditable, regulation-aligned risk reports.
Global Mobility Service Inc.
Global Mobility Service Inc. (GMS) is a Tokyo-based FinTech and mobility company that gives people locked out of traditional credit a path to vehicle ownership. By pairing its proprietary IoT device, MCCS, with a cloud platform called MSPF, GMS lets lenders remotely manage and, if payments stop, safely disable a financed vehicle - turning driving behavior and payment data into a new form of creditworthiness. The model has extended auto loans to gig drivers, taxi operators and delivery workers across Japan, the Philippines, Cambodia and Indonesia who would otherwise be rejected by conventional screening.
Koltiva
Koltiva is a Swiss-Indonesian agritech and climate-tech company that makes agricultural supply chains traceable, inclusive, and climate-smart. Through its KoltiTrace software platform and KoltiSkills field services, it connects smallholder producers to global brands with seed-to-table traceability, farm mapping, deforestation and EUDR compliance, carbon assessments, and digital finance. Founded in 2013 and led by co-founder and CEO Manfred Borer, Koltiva reports work with over 2 million registered producers across dozens of commodities and more than 90 countries.
Planet Protector Group
Planet Protector Group is an Australian climate-materials company that turns waste wool and recycled fibre into circular insulation. Its flagship WOOLPACK product replaces polystyrene in cold-chain packaging for food, wine and pharmaceuticals, while a newer building-insulation line extends the same wool, denim and recycled-poly technology into construction. Founded in 2016 by Joanne Howarth, the company has diverted thousands of tonnes of waste wool from landfill, eliminated millions of polystyrene boxes and returned millions in new revenue to sheep farmers across Oceania.
Sylvia Kwan
Dr. Sylvia Kwan is the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Ellevest, the New York-based investment advisory firm built to help women build and manage wealth. A Stanford PhD and holder of both the CFA and CAIA designations, she designed the gender-aware investing algorithm at the core of Ellevest's platform and, in 2025, succeeded founder Sallie Krawcheck to lead the company. With more than three decades in financial services, including founding-team roles at Financial Engines and a stint at Charles Schwab, Kwan is a leading voice on impact investing, alternatives, and closing the gender wealth gap.
Christina Leijonhufvud
Christina Leijonhufvud is the co-founder and CEO of BlueMark, the leading independent provider of impact verification and market intelligence for investors. A veteran of Wall Street, she spent more than 15 years at J.P. Morgan, where in 2007 she created the bank's Social Finance business and helped put impact investing on the map for institutional investors. She later co-founded the impact consulting firm Tideline before launching BlueMark in 2020 to bring third-party verification and benchmarking to a fast-growing industry facing scrutiny over impact-washing.
BlueMark
BlueMark is an independent impact verification and market-intelligence firm for the sustainable and impact investing industry. Spun out of impact consultancy Tideline in 2020 and led by CEO Christina Leijonhufvud, it audits how asset managers, allocators and issuers measure, manage and report the social and environmental impact of their investments. Its verifications, benchmarks and analytics - including the flagship 'Making the Mark' report and the BlueMark IQ intelligence platform - help investors prove their impact claims are credible and reduce the risk of impact-washing.
Scaler
Scaler is an ESG data platform built for the real estate industry that turns fragmented sustainability data into audit-ready reports and decarbonization roadmaps. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York and Amsterdam, its software helps asset managers, fund managers and compliance teams collect building-level energy, water and carbon data, run CRREM and net-zero analysis, and report against frameworks like GRESB, CSRD, SFDR and the EU Taxonomy - all from a single, traceable source of truth.
Sustainability Roundtable, Inc.
Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. (SR Inc) is a Boston-based, certified B Corporation that provides membership-based strategic advisory and support services in enterprise decarbonization. For more than fifteen years it has helped executives at nearly 100 Fortune 500 and high-growth companies set sustainability goals, drive progress, and report results through shared-cost research, one-on-one consulting, and a peer community. Its two flagship offerings are the Sustainable Business & Enterprise Roundtable (SBER) advisory service and the Net Zero Consortium for Buyers (NZCB), a confidential corporate renewable-energy buyers' community and transaction platform.
James Boyle
James (Jim) Boyle is the founder and CEO of Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. (SR Inc), a Boston-based public benefit corporation and certified B Corp that advises global companies such as Akamai, Biogen, Cisco, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Wayfair on corporate sustainability governance, renewable energy procurement, and organizational resilience. A former attorney and aide to U.S. Senator John Kerry who moved through commercial real estate before founding SR Inc in 2009, Boyle built a shared-cost research and advisory model that has helped nearly 100 Fortune 500 and growth companies pursue more sustainable high performance. In 2026 he published Dignity First Leadership, a framework arguing that companies should place human dignity at the center of value creation in an age of climate breakdown and technological upheaval.
Jean Belanger
Jean Belanger is the co-founder and CEO of Cerebri AI, an Austin- and Toronto-based artificial intelligence and data engineering company he started in 2016. A serial entrepreneur with a career spanning finance, semiconductors, and software, he previously ran Metrowerks (maker of the CodeWarrior developer tools acquired by Motorola) and Reddwerks (a supply-chain data science firm serving Walmart, CVS, Best Buy, and Lowe's). At Cerebri AI he created Cerebri Values, a system that quantifies a customer's commitment to a brand and predicts the next best action, and has more recently focused the company on analytics for corporate travel spend and ESG reporting.
Haltian
Haltian is a Finnish IoT company from Oulu that turns physical spaces into smart, sustainable environments. Founded in 2012 by former Nokia product engineers, it pairs its Thingsee wireless sensor hardware with the Empathic Building digital twin software to help offices, hospitals, warehouses and logistics sites measure occupancy, air quality and asset location - and act on the data. Having earned early fame designing the Oura smart ring, Haltian now runs one of Europe's largest IoT deployments and serves roughly 400 customers across 36 countries.
IdealRatings
IdealRatings is a San Francisco-based financial data and technology company that helps investors screen and rate securities against ESG, responsible-investment, and Shariah-compliance standards. Founded in 2006, it operates two business lines - ESG & Responsible Investment Solutions and Islamic Finance Solutions - covering a global universe of equities, fixed income, REITs and Sukuk. Its subscription, web-based tools and datasets are licensed by asset managers, banks, brokerages, stock exchanges and index providers in over 25 countries, and power benchmarks including the Bloomberg Shariah Sukuk indices and the FTSE IdealRatings Islamic index series.
Credibl
Credibl is a San Francisco-based, AI-powered ESG and sustainability data management platform that helps companies, banks and investors measure, manage, validate and report environmental, social and governance data. Founded by Qwiklabs founder and ex-Googler Jitesh Shetty, it applies large language models and machine learning to consolidate fragmented sustainability data, detect anomalies and produce audit-ready, one-click disclosures across frameworks like CSRD, BRSR, TCFD, SASB, ISSB and CDP.
KiWi New Energy
KiWi New Energy is a Taiwan- and Silicon Valley-based clean energy company building what it calls the operating system for global renewable energy. Rather than manufacturing more solar panels, KiWi focuses on the AI dispatch layer between generation and consumption: its AI-Driven Energy Datacenter (AI-EDC) matches clean supply to multi-site retail and SME demand in real time, aggregating fragmented buyers into virtual demand pools and using blockchain-certified renewable energy certificates to make green power traceable. Its deployments include a rare control-layer integration with Tesla Energy storage for FamilyMart convenience stores in Taiwan, plus customers like Decathlon and Wang Steak. Founded by serial energy entrepreneur Dr. Steve Huang, the company reached breakeven in 2025 and is expanding into Japan and the United States.
Pulsora
Pulsora is an AI-powered sustainability management platform built for enterprises and investors to collect, measure, and report ESG and carbon data on a single governed system. Founded in 2021 by Silicon Valley veterans Murat Sonmez and Inderjeet Singh (originally as PulsESG), the San Mateo company combines carbon accounting, framework reporting (CSRD, CDP, EDCI), and agentic AI workflows to turn scattered sustainability data into audit-ready disclosures. It serves 500+ companies across 63 countries and raised a $20M Series A in 2023 led by Galvanize Climate Solutions.
Zlatan Menkovic
Zlatan Menkovic is the CEO and co-founder of Scaler, an ESG data platform helping real estate managers measure, report, and cut the carbon footprint of their buildings. A Dutch product designer turned repeat founder, he built Scaler after years shaping products at Uber and Uber Freight and an earlier startup, PeerReach. Scaler now serves roughly 30 clients overseeing more than $350 billion in assets and raised a $10M Series A in 2024 led by Plural. Menkovic's pitch is blunt: if you want global impact, start with the buildings we already live and work in.
Fennel
Fennel is a New York-based mobile investing app that lets everyday retail investors trade commission-free stocks and ETFs while surfacing digestible ESG data and shareholder-voting information for the companies they own. Founded in 2022 by former physics PhD and dark-matter researcher Daniel Naim, Fennel positions itself as a B Corp-certified brokerage that refuses payment for order flow and does not lend out customer shares - so votes stay with the shares. For a $4.99 monthly subscription, users get 25+ financial metrics, 200+ ESG indicators, AI-powered news sentiment, and tools to follow past and upcoming shareholder ballots.
Power Kiosk
Power Kiosk is a Chicago-based SaaS company that runs a cloud-based marketplace connecting retail energy suppliers with the brokers and consultants who buy electricity and natural gas on behalf of businesses. Founded by Northwestern Ph.D. Hamed Babai, the platform pulls fragmented supplier rates, contracts, and market data into one AI-assisted workflow so brokers can quote, compare, and close deals in minutes instead of days. The company says it has managed 16,000+ customers across 34 states and provinces and returned roughly $120 million in savings.
Promethean Energy
Promethean Energy is a Houston-based, asset-light oil and gas operator that specializes in the late-life management and responsible decommissioning of mature offshore assets, primarily in the Gulf of Mexico. Founded in 2022 by MIT-trained Aditya Singh, the company pairs an integrated operator-plus-service model with drone-based visual intelligence and diagnostic technology to plug orphaned wells, retire aging platforms, and extract remaining value from fields others have written off - safely, under budget, and on a schedule.
Atomiton
Atomiton builds an immersive intelligence platform that ties operational activity to energy, water and carbon performance, helping data centers, manufacturers and building operators cut costs and hit sustainability targets in real time.
Aditya Singh
Aditya Singh is the founder and CEO of Promethean Energy, a Houston-based oil and gas operator that develops, produces, and decommissions mid- to late-life assets in the Gulf of Mexico. An MIT-trained strategist who came up through process engineering and completions, Singh built Promethean around an unfashionable idea: that the most responsible thing you can do with an old well is plug it well. The company operates 10 Gulf leases, retires orphaned wells ahead of budget, and partners with the University of Houston on ROICE, a program to repurpose dead offshore platforms for wind, hydrogen, and carbon capture.
Caroline Vanderlip
Caroline Vanderlip is the founder and CEO of Re:Dish, a Brooklyn-based reusable foodware company that swaps single-use containers for durable, USA-made ones, then collects, sterilizes, and redistributes up to 75,000 items a day from an automated industrial warewashing plant. After three decades launching businesses inside NBC, CNBC, AT&T, and her own publishing-tech ventures, she traded media for dishwashing in her sixties, betting that the most radical thing a company can do is wash its own plates and use them again.
Conor Murray
Conor Murray is the cofounder and CEO of OpenInvest, the values-based investing platform acquired by J.P. Morgan in 2021. An MIT-trained mathematician and computer scientist, he built portfolio-optimization technology at Bridgewater Associates managing more than $150 billion before starting OpenInvest in 2015 to let everyday investors align their money with their ethics. He now guides ESG innovation inside J.P. Morgan Wealth Management.
Daniel Naim
Daniel Naim is the founder and CEO of Fennel, a mobile investing app that hands everyday retail investors the ESG data and shareholder-voting power that big institutions usually keep to themselves. A former dark-matter physicist who grew up in Beirut and earned a physics PhD at UC Davis, Naim left the lab in 2020 - watching California burn and Engine No. 1 win an Exxon board fight - convinced that capital markets, not particle detectors, were the most pressing problem he could work on. Fennel refuses payment for order flow, won't lend out users' shares, became a certified B Corp, and was named one of Fast Company's most innovative companies in personal finance.
BioSqueeze Inc.
BioSqueeze Inc. is a Butte, Montana company and the self-described world leader in commercial biomineralization. Its core technology pumps low-viscosity, self-diverting fluids carrying naturally occurring soil bacteria into oil and gas wells, where the microbes precipitate crystalline calcium carbonate (limestone) to permanently seal leakage pathways as small as one micron. The result is a gas-tight barrier that eliminates sustained casing pressure and stops fugitive methane emissions, helping operators meet well-integrity and environmental obligations across producing, plugged, and storage wells.
Bryan Bennett
Bryan Bennett is the CEO and founder of Cortex (formerly Cortex Building Intelligence, now Cortex Sustainability Intelligence), a New York-based software company that uses machine learning to cut energy use, costs, and carbon emissions in commercial buildings. Raised in a family that worked commercial real estate for four decades and trained as a management consultant advising utilities on smart-grid technology, Bennett built Cortex around a simple observation: buildings generate thousands of data points every minute, and almost no one was turning that data into action. His software-only platform now optimizes more than 50 million square feet, including the Empire State Building.
Project Canary
Project Canary is a Denver-based climate-tech public-benefit corporation that turns methane and emissions data into operational intelligence for energy companies. It pairs high-fidelity continuous monitoring hardware (the EPA-approved Canary X sensor) with a cloud platform (SENSE) and independent well-level ESG ratings (TrustWell), helping oil & gas producers and natural gas utilities detect leaks, cut emissions, meet regulations, and prove the climate attributes of their gas.
Mark Ranalli
Mark Ranalli is the founder, president and CEO of BioSqueeze Inc., a Butte, Montana company that uses biomineralization - natural soil bacteria that grow limestone - to seal microscopic leaks in oil and gas wells and stop fugitive methane. A serial entrepreneur who previously built and led companies in publishing and telecommunications with workforces topping 700, he holds an electrical engineering and computer science degree from Stanford and an MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School, and has served as a business-school dean. After scaling consumer-internet ventures, he turned to the unglamorous, high-stakes problem of leaky wellbores, backing a decade of Department of Energy and Montana State University research with a $7.4 million Series A.
Sourcemap: the Supply Chain Mapping Company
Sourcemap is a New York-based enterprise SaaS company that maps global supply chains down to the raw-material origin. Born as a research project at the MIT Media Lab, it gives compliance and sourcing teams end-to-end, verified visibility across multi-tier supplier networks - helping Global 1000 brands meet forced-labor, deforestation, tariff and ESG regulations while reducing disruption risk.