Kara

Kara assists venture capital investors and technology companies in streamlining their climate disclosures and ESG reporting. The platform provides access to SFDR Article 8 and 9 compliance and integrates with tools like Xero, QuickBooks, and Holded to automate data collection. Kara tracks realized and avoided emissions and other impact metrics to accelerate the path to Net Zero. It supports collaboration with shared data infrastructure for investors and companies and offers benchmarking of fund and company performance against industry peers. The platform measures Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions using a methodology aligned with the GHG Protocol and provides a library of metrics based on IRIS+ aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Kara supports compliance with evolving international regulations like SFDR, SEC, and UK SDR, ensuring data security with encryption, SOC2, and GDPR compliance standards. Over 200 companies and investors report with the platform, benefiting from 10x faster data collection at lower costs. Kara offers 750 proprietary benchmarks by company stage and industry and supports companies at all growth stages with dynamic indicators and frameworks. The platform creates annual reports for stakeholder alignment and measures impact with credible, comparable metrics. It provides policies and resources to advance sustainability journeys and ensures audit-ready data with traceability of inputs. Kara supports the transition to a Net Zero economy by combining climate science with intuitive software for sustainability reporting and compliance. The platform helps users anticipate and manage climate risks and opportunities, offering activity-based and spend-based carbon accounting. It brings together realized, planned, and projected emissions reduction and helps users stay on top of evolving international compliance needs with one platform. Users can build their own ESG and impact framework based on existing standards, and the platform provides a clear path to SFDR compliance without overburdening companies with data requests and disclosures. Kara is built on infrastructure that meets SOC2 and GDPR compliance standards and offers complete history with extensive audit logs and point-in-time data recovery.