Speed Up & Simplify That ESG Reporting? Nossa Data Are On It

Nossa Data, the fintech start-up that is helping corporates to streamline their ESG reporting, has raised a £1.2m seed round led by Symvan Capital and BGF. The round also brings in prominent angel investors as well as follow-on funding from SFC Capital and Techstars.

Founded by Julianne Flesher (CEO) and Irina Dumitrescu (CTO) the pair started the company in 2020 when they repeatedly saw how burdensome ESG disclosure was for companies.

Nossa Data’s software offers companies everything they need to streamline their ESG disclosure in a single place. They offer a number of benefits, including template reporting  to the top ESG frameworks including SASB Standards and TCFD, benchmarking of a company’s ESG performance versus its peers, detailed workflow optimisation for peer collaboration and AI insights.

Over the course of 2021 the team fine-tuned their product even further while working directly with hundreds of the world’s largest corporations through a direct partnership with The Workforce Disclosure Initiative (WDI) set up by the NGO, ShareAction.

Nossa Data CEO, Julianne Flesher, said: “We spoke to the ESG disclosure teams at the world’s largest companies and it was shocking to learn how much time they need to spend on repetitive disclosures. For a large corporation, they are currently expected to respond to about a dozen distinct ESG frameworks – that does not even include the additional ad-hoc investor questionnaires or ESG rating agency requests they receive.

“Getting to work with an emerging standard like the WDI was an amazing opportunity for our team. Our software enabled all 170 WDI disclosing companies including half of the FTSE 100 such as Unilever, Barclays, AstraZeneca, H&M and more to submit their 2021 data on key workforce topics. Through this collaboration we have collected thousands of pieces of product feedback that have directly impacted how our product works today.”

With the funding the team will continue to develop their ESG reporting software and improve customer experience and efficiencies.