Summary

ESGpedia (ESGpedia Pte Ltd) is Asia’s leading ESG data and technology company, headquartered in Singapore. The ESGpedia platform powers the ESCAP Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) Asia-Pacific Green Deal digital platform and the Asia-Pacific Single Accesspoint for ESG Data (SAFE) initiative, and is part of the Singapore-Australia Go-Green Co-Innovation Programme. With more than 5 million sustainability data points, ESGpedia serves as the Nexus of ESG, digitally empowering corporates, SMEs, and the financial sector to ensure compliance towards ESG regulations and attain their ESG goals. ESGpedia is GRI-licensed.

ESGpedia is a one-stop platform providing digital solutions to empower companies’ end-to-end ESG business needs, covering ESG reporting, carbon accounting, data and analytics, sustainable financing, and sustainable supply chain engagement.

Description of fintech solution

ESGpedia is Asia’s leading ESG data and technology platform, with corporates, SMEs, and financial institutions across Asia Pacific onboard. Serving as a one-stop AI powered digital platform to empower sustainability in Asia, the SaaS-based platform provides digital solutions for end-to-end business needs, over 5 million sustainability data points, and various sectors coverage.

ESGpedia has presence across the Asia Pacific region, empowering corporates, SMEs, and the financial sector towards ESG reporting in accordance with international and country-specific frameworks such as the ISSB, GRI, TCFD, SEDG, SuRe Form, and more.

ESGpedia’s technology expertise in actionable tools, GHG emissions calculation, supplier engagement, data aggregation, data harmonisation, and analytics has benefitted the corporates, SMEs, and the financial sector using the platform to achieve their ESG goals and ensure compliance towards ESG regulations. It empowers banks, asset managers, and investors for sustainable financing and ESG risk monitoring of portfolio, and allows corporates and SMEs to easily kickstart their ESG reporting journey according to international and country-specific frameworks and monitor the sustainability performance of suppliers. For more information, please visit www.esgpedia.io.

Describe your key innovations

To help to plug the ESG data gaps in Asia Pacific and provide a complete ESG database, ESGpedia has enhanced its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered engine to provide a dual approach – Nexus and Intelligence. Join the 150,000+ company profiles on our platform.

ESGpedia Intelligence empowers banks, investors, insurers, and corporates to overcome data fragmentation with its proprietary AI-powered engine, aggregating over 5 million sustainability data points across different countries and sectors. Financial Institutions and corporates are empowered to conduct taxonomy regulatory mapping, gain access to companies’ ESG profiles with product and asset level data, and effectively monitor portfolio companies including SMEs, for sustainable financing and supply chain tracking.

ESGpedia Nexus enables corporates, SMEs, and financial institutions, regardless of their ESG maturity, from day 1 to full readiness with an end-to-end suite of sustainability solutions for all their business ESG needs.

The platform supports comprehensive ESG reporting and carbon accounting. Companies can create their Greenhouse Gas (GHG) and ESG reports in accordance with international and local standards, such as GRI, ISSB, TCFD, and more. The embedded GHG calculator helps companies calculate their Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions seamlessly, ensuring compliance with ISO 14064-1 methodologies and the GHG Protocol.

Our Co-branded Portals enable financial institutions to advance on their sustainability strategy by streamlining and actively engaging portfolio/client ecosystems, from data collection, to monitoring, analysing, and taking action. Financial Institutions can showcase their brand logo and messaging, customise their URL, and incentivise their ecosystem to take steps towards reporting core ESG metrics and calculating their emissions, by offering benefits such as preferential financing rates or priority in sustainable procurement.

The ESGpedia Marketplace allows companies to amplify their ESG profile, and gain access to financing, assurance, certification, advisory, carbon offsets, and a multitude of other decarbonisation solutions and network benefits.

Solution Lifecycle

Commercialized

Founder's Background

Benjamin Soh is the Founder and Managing Director of ESGpedia, Asia’s leading ESG data and technology company, headquartered in Singapore. The ESGpedia platform powers the ESCAP Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) Asia-Pacific Green Deal digital platform and the Asia-Pacific Single Accesspoint for ESG Data (SAFE) initiative, and is part of the Singapore-Australia Go-Green Co-Innovation Programme. ESGpedia serves as the Nexus of ESG, digitally empowering corporates, SMEs, and the financial sector to ensure compliance towards ESG regulations and attain their ESG goals.?

A serial entrepreneur who previously founded a multinational, regulated B2B FinTech serving the needs of more than 100 financial services firms worldwide, Ben is currently the Vice Chairman of the ESBN Task Force on Innovation. Ben also served as the Chairman of the Green and Sustainable FinTech Sub-Committee of the Singapore FinTech Association (SFA) where he is currently still serving as a member, as well as in the Singapore Computer Society (SCS) Sustainable Tech Special Interest Group.

With a personal purpose to bring about positive change in the world with technology, Ben shares his ESG Tech expertise with the leaders of today and the next generation, through frequent thought leadership articles and the various global stages and industry talks he is regularly invited to speak at.

Founded (Years of Incorporation)

2019

How are you funded today?

Series A

Money Raised

$8mm SGD

Number of employees

40

Presence In Region

ASEAN
Asia
North Asia
Southeast Asia

Technology

Application Programming Interface (API)
Artificial Intelligence
Data automation
ESG
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing (NLP)

HQ Country

Singapore

What are the top 3 key benefits your solution will bring to the Asset Management Industry?

ESGpedia offer an end to end solution that can allows Asset Managers to reap benefits on 3 key fronts:

1) Seamless and Automated Conditional Screening and Monitoring to track Financial Portfolios
- ESGpedia empowers better review of ESG financial products, with ongoing monitoring and visibility of sustainability claims, allowing asset managers to monitor the underlying quality of sustainable investments on an ongoing basis.

Streamline the screening and tracking of portfolios with automated notifications and pre-set thresholds. Asset managers can also create customised portfolios for ease of monitoring of sustainability metrics across companies for ESG financial products.

2) Bridge data gap in the Asia Pacific for increased transparency at the asset level, regardless of sector
- ESGpedia allows asset managers to access companies’ holistic ESG profiles, with asset and product level data?. Explore a complete global database of companies’ ESG profiles and access the universe of ESG certificates awarded at the asset or company level - all on a single dashboard.

Filter based on country, framework, sector, segment, and validity status for ease of search and check.
Screen and identify businesses based on their ESG profile and overview of their ESG credentials.

3) Better ESG Risk Monitoring and Management, alleviate fears of greenwashing
- With better data and digital tools to empower effective monitoring of financial portfolio and underlying quality of sustainable investments, asset managers can ensure their ESG claims and investments are accurate and verifiable, to mitigate fears of greenwashing, and future-proof against increasing scrutiny of greenwashing practices.

Tell us more about your past client engagements to date and your market penetration?

ESGpedia has live use cases and customers in various sectors, across financial services, built environment, fashion and textile, energy, hospitality, supply chain, transport and logistics, agriculture, and more, in over ten Asia Pacific countries.

Today, ESGpedia is the market leader for ESG data and technology solutions in the Asia Pacific region, powering key programs across the region to close data and disclosure gaps, including the ESCAP Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) Asia-Pacific Green Deal digital platform and the Asia-Pacific Single Accesspoint for ESG Data (SAFE) initiative.

Do you have any case studies of your solution? If yes, please share it in less than 200 words

ESGpedia is today empowering financial institutions, corporates, and SMEs across over ten Asia-Pacific countries, enabling them to to achieve their ESG goals and ensure ESG compliance.

Use cases include ESG reporting, carbon accounting, sustainable financing, portfolio/client ecosystem engagement, and sustainable supply chain engagement.

Specific to the financial sector, ESGpedia is today empowering numerous Client-Enabling Bank Initiatives and Financing Programmes, including the DBS ESG Ready Programme and CIMB SME Sustainability-Linked Loan, amongst others. It has also empowered Regional Channels to enable scale up of Sustainable Finance, in partnership with PDS Group, Bamboo Capital Group, Funding Societies | Modalku, and more.

As a testament to the platform's ability to accelerate climate action and sustainable finance across Asia, ESGpedia emerged as top solution and was crowned Best Overall Team at the Hitachi Green Finance Innovation Challenge 2024, amongst 78 proposals and 4 finalists. Using our comprehensive ESG data platform, we showcased an innovative solution that unifies diverse datasets from various sources including Hitachi's SLEB platform, emissions data, and real-time resource metrics. This solution standardises and verifies data, empowering banks and investors to set quantifiable sustainability-linked KPIs and track progress with dynamic dashboards.

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