Our UK fintech portfolio company SDG Assessment (“SDGA”) continues to be recognized as a leader in its field, with its selection to pitch in the IP Hatch UK Finals in Glasgow on 28 August.
PIHG recently invested in SDGA to support the continued development of their platform for tokenization and verifying of projects which meet the criteria of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”).
The SDGA platform has three related core features for the verification, funding, and trading of projects and related assets:
* Verification & Certification – the complete system for verifying, certifying and reporting on the project to provide transparency for investors and make sure it meets the various criteria. With increasing regulation in Europe and elsewhere, this area is becoming increasingly important for businesses, investors and countries globally. Solutions include:
- the UN SDPI scorecard, which looks at a range of factors to assess the sustainability of, for example, cryptocurrencies – see ReFi Index;
- sustainability/ESG performance reporting for small businesses;
- the Sustainability Performance Framework (SPF+) Scorecard; and
- the Enterprise Level reporting system for large businesses and corporations helps improve supply chain impacts and reduce Scope 3 & Scope 4 carbon emissions, and ensure ongoing climate related compliance obligations are being achieved for key regulations, including US SEC, UK and EU.
* Digitization – enabling the tokenization, digitization, listing and trading of sustainable projects and assets, to enable projects to raise funding, and investors to participate in and trade stakes in those projects, leveraging the power of Decentralized Finance (DeFi);
* the SDGA Token, which seeks to democratize impact investing, opening up opportunities for both individuals and institutions to participate in projects that generate tangible, positive change. The Token focuses on UN SDGs linked Regenerative Finance (ReFi) initiatives, including carbon credits, plastic credits, biodiversity credits, water credits, and other high-impact ventures.
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