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S&P Global
It scores the debt of nations, names the index in your retirement account, and prices the oil in your tank. Meet the 165-year-old data company most people have never Googled.
Pathzero
Pathzero is a Sydney-based climate-tech company that builds a unified software platform for financial institutions to measure, share and disclose carbon emissions across public and private markets. Its data-sharing network connects asset owners with more than 500 fund managers, giving investors direct-from-source, audit-ready emissions data where information has historically been hardest to obtain - private markets. Founded in 2020 inside the Antler incubator, Pathzero has grown into what it describes as the world's largest private-markets carbon emissions data network.
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.
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.
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.