FootprintLab
The sustainability footprint for everything, everywhere, all at once.
At a glance
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Development stage
Active / generating revenue
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Investment stage
Pre-Seed
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UNSW affiliation
Founders startup
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Technology readiness level
TRL 7
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Female led
Yes
FootprintLab helps banks and fintechs to enter the AUD160 billion ESG accounting market.
Its sustainability database contains 370 billion data points, and supplies data to banks, payment gateways, tech companies, the ESG tech sector, and Australian federal and state governments. It is now expanding to serve the global market.
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FootprintLab holds an exclusive commercial licence to a database developed for the UN, which contains over 370 billion data points. This has made it easy and affordable to embed sustainability into any financial data globally. Its data-as-a-service API easily plugs into bank and service provider workflows, providing billions of possible insights for a transaction that previously had one or two. FootprintLab’s customers convert this data into endless possibilities to help measure, disclose, and reduce impacts.
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- ESG accounting has become a multibillion-dollar industry as governments set net zero deadlines, nature positive goals, and multifaceted sustainability policies.
- The private sector is scrambling to measure its impacts and mitigate risks of government and market action.
- ESG accounting is expensive, time consuming, and complex.
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- Initial: governments, ESG accounting platforms, and consultancies that help companies measure their climate change impacts.
- Scale: banks, payment gateways, accounting platforms, fintechs, data analytics companies.
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- Sales: over 45 clients globally, including Australian government (federal and state), the United Nations, and universities.
- Signed pilot projects: with Mastercard, HCL Software, Ingenico.
- Supported by government to scale globally by DFAT, Austrade, Investment NSW.
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