Summary
GaiaLens is an AI-powered sustainability analytics platform for institutional investors. Our platform acts as a digital ESG analyst team that saves our clients time and money.
Description of fintech solution
Our platform is data-driven, transparent, and delivers real-time analysis. The GaiaLens platform comprises of a suite of tools to help investors fulfil their ESG needs including portfolio reporting, investment screening, and deep-dive research capabilities.
Describe your key innovations
ESG Scoring: We calculate real-time, customisable, and transparent ESG scores. We use a hybrid approach, blending time series and machine learning for forward-looking scores.
News Processing: Our advanced system tracks news, social media, and NGO sources for 20,000+ companies in real time. We have built an LLM-based model for daily scandal/controversy detection.
Proprietary ESG Factors: We engineer proprietary data points which are inputted into our scoring algorithm such as Beneish M Score.
Solution Lifecycle
Commercialized
Founder's Background
Gordon Tveito-Duncan, Co-Founder/CEO: Gordon is an experienced financial analyst having worked as an Equity Research Analyst at an investment bank covering the Technology sector. He also has experience as a Data Science consultant. Gordon holds a MSc (Distinction) in Data Science from City, University of London, and a BSc (Hons) degree in Economics from the University of Warwick.
Seb Kirk, Co-Founder/COO: Seb worked as a financial analyst at a boutique corporate finance firm for 5 years, where he specialised in facilitating transactions in the sustainable and ethical food production industry. Seb holds a MSc (Distinction) in Data Science from City, University of London, and a BSc (Hons) degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Newcastle. Seb is a CFA Charterholder.
Founded (Years of Incorporation)
2021
Presence In Region
Global
Technology
Application Programming Interface (API)
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud solutions
Data automation
ESG
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Optical character recognition (OCR)
Regtech
HQ Country
United Kingdom
What are the top 3 key benefits your solution will bring to the Asset Management Industry?
1) Improving sustainability reporting: our platform saves investors a significant amount of time when it comes to reporting. Investors can easily upload their investments and generate reports within seconds.
2) Access to the best ESG data: by using our platform, investors have access to the highest quality and most up-to-date ESG data. This can massively speed up research time and aid ESG integration into investment processes.
3) Best-in-class controversy detection: we have built a powerful news processing system using the latest LLM technologies. Investors can subscribe to real-time alerts for all of their investments and receive a daily consolidated email with the most important controversies taking place globally that are worth looking into. This feature saves an enormous amount of time and helps with risk mitigation.
Tell us more about your past client engagements to date and your market penetration?
We have asset management, and asset owner clients and work with global financial services companies.
For asset managers, we help them with 2 main use cases:
1) ESG reporting
2) ESG research
For asset owners, we help them with the following use cases:
1) Allocation-level ESG analysis
2) Member communication in the form of impact screens
For global financial services companies, we build bespoke ESG solutions.
Do you have any case studies of your solution? If yes, please share it in less than 200 words
We helped a UK-based Asset Management firm save hours when it came to SFDR Reporting. Before working with GaiaLens, the client was having big issues with their ESG reporting. It would take more than ten hours to report on SFDR for each of their 200+ portfolios.
We built a bespoke ESG solution for a global financial services company. Before working with GaiaLens, the client experienced a significant challenge in building an ESG solution for its financial clients (asset managers, wealth managers, banks). Their clients had been requesting an ESG solution to help them with their sustainability reporting requirements. The result is a best-in-class ESG tool that they successfully sell to their clients and is receiving fantastic feedback.
Awards/Accolades
1. Finalist of the Catapult FundTech 360° program run by The LHoFT - Luxembourg House of Financial Technology, in collaboration with ALFI - Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry and MiddleGame 2. Ventures
2. Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN) Greenwashing TechSprint - won two awards, "Fast Solution" and the "Globetrotting Solution"
3. FinTech Global's ESGFinTech100 2023 - The world’s most innovative ESG tech companies that every financial institution needs to know about in 2023.
4. FinTech Global's ESGFinTech100 2022 - the world’s most innovative ESG tech companies that every financial institution needs to know about in 2022.
5. "Highly Commended" at the Pensions Expert's Pension and Investment Provider Awards for the "ESG Data Provider of the Year" Award.
6. Rising Stars Award from StartUp Awards 2022.
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