Vested Impact

"The 10 Scale-ups you need to know" - we certainly think so! We are proud to be part of Grow London Global alongside other trailblazing scaleups. 🚀 Here’s to scaling impact-driven innovation for a more sustainable future! #MeasureWhatMatters #ImpactAssessment #VestedImpact #SustainableBusiness #GrowLondonGlobal

"The 10 Scale-ups you need to know" - we certainly think so! We are proud to be part of Grow London Global alongside other trailblazing scaleups. 🚀 Here’s to scaling impact-driven innovation for a more sustainable future! #MeasureWhatMatters #ImpactAssessment #VestedImpact #SustainableBusiness #GrowLondonGlobal

🌍 Businesses have a tremendous capacity to drive climate action, and it’s fantastic to see a spotlight on this critical issue. Vested Impact is thrilled to be featured in Cogo’s latest post, where our CEO, Kimberley Abbott, shared her insights on how SMEs and businesses can take meaningful steps toward addressing climate change. A huge thank you to Cogo for fostering this vital conversation and for including us in such an important dialogue. Together, we can amplify action and work toward a sustainable future. 🌱✨ Check out Cogo’s post for more actionable insights. 👇 #ClimateAction #SMEs #ImpactMeasurement #Sustainability #MeasureWhatMatters

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Emma Kisby as a Non-Executive Director to the Board of Vested Impact. 🚀 Emma brings with her a wealth of experience in leveraging data to drive both positive change and commercial value, and we couldn't be more excited to have her join our mission. At Vested Impact, we are committed to helping investors, institutions and companies measure what truly matters - ensuring both people and planet benefit. Emma's leadership will undoubtedly help us scale our efforts to drive responsible business and investment globally. Welcome aboard, Emma – we are lucky to have you! #VestedImpact #Leadership #MeasureWhatMatters #Impact #Sustainability

🌐 The United Nations WPS-HA Compact Second Global Accountability Report is here! For the past year, Vested Impact has been honored to once again be the UN's data provider for the UN's Women, Peace, Security, and Humanitarian Action (WPS-HA) Compact – enabling the UN to monitor and access the data they need to measure what matters and track commitments, of over 200 signatories, that impact women and girls in conflict zones. The 2024 Accountability Report highlights both the alarming rise in violence affecting women and girls, and the collective efforts of the Compact’s 200+ signatories to drive progress. 🔎 Key insights: - 612 million women and girls now live near active conflicts, a 41% increase since 2015. - Conflict-related sexual violence has surged by 50% in the past year, with women and girls representing 95% of victims. Despite these grim figures, there are rays of hope: Nearly 25 million people benefited from signatory actions in 2023, and over US$1.5 billion was spent on advancing gender equality in conflict and humanitarian contexts. 🌍 In times of escalating conflict and humanitarian crises, our data at Vested Impact helps bring clarity to where efforts of organisations, governments and companies are succeeding, and where we need to do more. Vested Impact can also screen companies and investments against gender-lens and gender assessment criteria, backed by over 200 million academic papers and access to hundreds of millions of impact data points. If your company or organization is committed to driving sustainable and inclusive peace, you can sign up to the Compact and be part of this transformative movement. 🔗 Explore the report and register to get involved: https://lnkd.in/dkbWSmcB Jake Mulcahy, Poppy Fenton, Jane Michotte #WPSHACompact #MeasureWhatMatters #WomenPeaceSecurity #HumanitarianAction #ImpactData #VestedImpact

🚀 Exciting News! We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with Innovate Finance and FinTech Innovation Lab London to launch the FinTech Impact Report 2024! 🌟 This comprehensive report dives into the meaningful contributions of the UK FinTech sector, showcasing its growing influence on both the economy and society - analysing 3,560 UK FinTechs and the impact of their products, services and activities in the UK on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. 🔍 Notable findings include: 98% of FinTechs have a significant positive impact on economic growth and productivity in the UK. 39% of UK FinTechs are actively reducing inequality by promoting financial inclusion and education. 26% are championing the protection of fundamental freedoms, enhancing data privacy and access to information. There are many more amazing insights, as well as work to do to leverage the full potential of FinTech in pursuit of achieving the SDG's. This report serves as a testament to the UK FinTech sector's dedication to fostering a better future for all. 🌍💡 Huge shout out to Jake Mulcahy, our Head of Partnerships and Policy at Vested Impact for this fantastic piece of work, alongside Poppy Fenton. And we would like to thank those at Accenture and Innovate Finance who helped contribute to the creation of this report. Amelia Martinez, Megan Jenkins Roberto Napolitano, MBA Adam Jackson Edward Nicholson Tasneem Mayet, CCBI 📥 Don’t miss out! Check out the full report to explore the transformative potential of FinTech in driving positive societal change! View the report here: https://lnkd.in/dRvs7nuq View the press release here: https://lnkd.in/dugUyeaQ #FinTech #ImpactReport2024 #SustainableDevelopment #Innovation #FinancialInclusion #DataPrivacy #Accenture #InnovateFinance #PositiveChange #measurewhatmatters

🚨 Newsflash: new data on FinTech activity in the UK has just dropped. 🚨 We are really proud to announce the release of 2024's UK FinTech Impact Report for 3 key reasons: 🌍 We go beyond top-line FinTech stats of growth, funding and partnerships to deliver real data on the true impact of UK FinTech using the UN's Sustainable Development Goals as a baseline; 🌟 We highlight, discuss and recommend future actions for the good, the bad, and the ugly across FinTech, not shying away from how we as an industry need to move forward to truly achieve a positive impact; 🤝 We worked in collaboration with our alum Vested Impact and close friends at Innovate Finance to create the second version of an industry-leading report that leverages open source data to create an impact assessment framework of 3,560 FinTechs in the UK. Some headlines that make us proud to be part of this ecosystem are: ✅ 90% of UK FinTechs are a force for good across Productivity, Place, People, Planet and Peace; ✅ 39% of UK FinTechs are helping to reduce inequality by increasing financial inclusion and promoting financial education; ✅ 26% of UK FinTechs are positively contributing to the protection of fundamental freedoms around data privacy and access to information. Much more to come from us on this so watch this space as we seek to start conversations around the data, insights and recommendations for the future of UK FinTech. It was a pleasure working together to develop these insights with the Vested Impact team: Kimberley Abbott and Jake Mulcahy, and Innovate Finance: Amelia Martinez, Roberto Napolitano, MBA, Adam Jackson and Megan Jenkins Of course, it would not be possible without support from Accenture UK & Ireland, notably Tasneem Mayet, CCBI and Jon Williams for their features, and the many FinTech representative companies highlighted in the report. We thank you for allowing us to continue to shine a light on this fantastic industry. Full report and press release found here: https://lnkd.in/eUYkQ5Qn #FinTechforGood #UKFinTech Edward Nicholson Niamh Gwatkin Graham Cressey Catherine Abell Ryan Shanks Tom Graham James Golby David Parker Janine Hirt

We are thrilled to officially announce our participation in Vested Impact's £1.1M Seed round around along with Impact Shakers 🚀 🙌 "By leveraging data from over 200 million academic papers, and 100 million impact data points from leading organisations such as the United Nations an The World Bank, the [Vested Impact] platform provides companies and asset managers with a comprehensive, science-based view of their impact against global standards like the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) thereby helping them report and manage their risks and impacts on people and the planet." 🌎✨ Congratulations to Kimberley Abbott & HearstLab International team (Azahara García Espejo & Louise Harvey) on this exciting announcement! Kim, an official welcome to the global HearstLab community of #FemaleFounders! More from the The Fintech Times: https://lnkd.in/eBQT9tHG

I’m beyond excited to share that Vested Impact has successfully raised £1.1M in investment with the backing of Impact Shakers and HearstLab 🚀 🙌 With this funding, we’re scaling our award-winning platform, which automatically assesses and quantifies the material impact and risks of companies' products, services and activities on over 160 different social and environmental SDG targets; leveraging over 200 million academic papers and access to over 100 million impact data points. I started Vested Impact over 5 years ago, with a mission to measure what truly matters and ensure that understanding impact and risk goes beyond financial metrics to support people and the planet. And whilst 5 years may have felt like a long journey, it has allowed us to not just build out a market leading solution with data on the impact of over 2 million SME's, but it has enabled us to carefully find the investors that align with our vision for Vested Impact - and i am so very excited for this next phase and those we get to do it with! I want to take this moment to especially thank; 🧠 My team at Vested Impact, and in particular Daniel White who has spent years rebuilding my questionable code into the fab system it is 🤷♀️ 🤝 Our incredible Advisory Board who over the years steered, supported and cheered us through some incredible (and tough) times: Kathy Jenkins, Nicola Breyer, Elizabeth Broderick, Anna-Marie Slot, JD, Mark Bloxham 🚀 And the supporters who helped "accelerate" us over the years: Village Capital Europe, Village Capital, FinTech Innovation Lab London , Ashurst FinTech Legal Labs, Paris Peace Forum, UBS Project Female Founder, Mastercard Strive, Grow London Together, we’re building the data we need for the future we want 🚀🌿. Yonca Braeckman, Alina Klarner, Diána P., Louise Harvey, Jeffrey Paul Coleman, Panagiotis Malliaras, Marta Zaccagnini, Ben Younkman, Graham Cressey, Emma Wheeler, Eva Lindholm, Rosie Afia-Ford, Allie Burns, Jane Michotte, Jake Mulcahy, Lesley Myers, Mia B., Emma Kisby, Maïssa Khattab, Azahara García Espejo #MeasureWhatMatters #ImpactInvestment #SDGs #VestedImpact #SustainableFinance #DataForGood #ScaleUp

Vested Impact has bagged £1.1million in seed funding, backed by female deal teams at both Impact Shakers and HearstLab to expand its platform for rapid, data-driven ESG and impact assessments. “This investment marks a critical milestone in our journey to empower millions of businesses globally to understand and evidence their risks and impacts," says Kimberley Abbott, founder and CEO of Vested Impact. https://lnkd.in/eBQT9tHG