Best ESG Data, Analytics, & Ratings Companies

Preqin provides data and insight and access across the global alternatives market. The company offers data on private equity, venture capital, private debt, secondaries, hedge funds, real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources through a SaaS platform, mobile app, feeds, and through partner integrations. Its products include Preqin Pro, Preqin Insights, Preqin Mobile, Preqin Anywhere (API, Data Feeds & Plugins), Preqin Benchmarks, ESG Solutions, Company Intelligence, and LP & Capital Allocator Solutions (Colmore). The company was founded in 2002 and is based in London, U.K.

Clarity AI develops an enterprise software as a service (SaaS) based tool for asset managers. It visualizes and optimizes the social impact of their investment portfolios. The company was formerly known as Global Impact Rating. It was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

FTSE Russell is the combined businesses of FTSE Group and Russell Indexes and operates as one joint global index business. FTSE Russell operates as a global provider of benchmarks, analytics, and data solutions with multi-asset capabilities. FTSE Russell’s solutions offer a picture of global markets across asset classes, styles, and strategies.

Accern empower people to extract intuitive insights from unstructured data with the most accurate natural language processing (NLP) models. It provides insights that help institutional investors monitor news sites, blogs, social networks, and more to curate relevant financial content. The company offers machine-learning solutions for equity research, credit risk, insurance claims, fraud prevention, sanctions monitoring, and more. It was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

ClimateAi provides climate forecasting and agronomics services leveraging machine learning. It offers insights based on its tools such as Climatelens-Monitor, Climatelens-Adapt, Climatelens-Enterprise, and Climatelens-Assess. It primarily caters to agriculture, food and beverage, finance, manufacturing, apparel, CPG and retail, and energy sector. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

CSRHub provides access to corporate social responsibility and sustainability ratings and information on 8,900+ companies from 135 industries in 103 countries. Managers, researchers and activists use CSRHub to benchmark company performance, learn how stakeholders evaluate company CSR practices and seek ways to change the world.

ESG Book provides a cloud-based platform that makes ESG data accessible, enabling financial markets to allocate capital towards more sustainable and higher impact assets. Covering companies globally, ESG Book enables clients to be custodians of their own data, provides framework-neutral sustainability information in real-time, and promotes transparency. It was founded in 2018 and is based in London, England.

Kayrros is an advanced data analytics company that helps energy market players make better investment decisions. Kayrros extracts value from the integration of alternative and market data into its product offerings across the energy chain. Kayrros solutions are scalable and continually expanded to new geographies and new sources of data that help provide greater transparency into energy markets worldwide.

Measurabl provides automatic data import technology and a guided, step-by-step process helping companies and organizations complete reports, collect data, benchmark, and improve performance. The platform helps any organization to prepare a report on sustainability, regardless of size, expertise, or resources. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Diego, California.

Net Purpose cleans, standardizes, and structures data on the social and environmental outcomes of companies and investment portfolios so that investors can report in line with global standards and goals. It offers map metrics, data outcome scanning, portfolio reporting, impact evaluation, and other tools through its platform. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in London, U.K.

Novat is a technology platform and a public benefit company. It offers technology platform makes navigating the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) landscape simple for private markets by identifying a clear starting point for selecting the metrics that matter, streamlining data collection, insights and contextualizing data to drive reporting and action. Novata was founded in 2021 and is based in New York, New York.

RepRisk is a web-based tool which provides insights on environmental and social issues that present financial and reputational risks to a company or investment portfolio.

SESAMm operates as a financial technology company specializing in big data and artificial intelligence (AI) for asset management. It turns big data into data that helps users get access to a source of information. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Metz, France.

Weefin is a Saas platform that allows its clients to define and manage their investment decisions, and to democratize socially responsible investment. It offers a turnkey solution to its client and invites them to create ESG strategies in line with their investment thesis. Weefin was founded in 2018 and is based in Paris, France.

YvesBlue provides a platform that offers robust analytics and reporting across asset classes, including public equity, fixed income, and private equity. The company is based in New York, New York, and was founded in 2018.