Right this moment is Earth Day. Established in 1970, the vacation is well known as the beginning of the trendy environmental motion. First proposed by peace activist John McConnell in 1969, the vacation has grown into a world commemoration with tens of millions of members all around the world.
In fintech and monetary providers, many firms have developed options to assist banks, monetary providers corporations, and their prospects take care of points similar to local weather change and environmental sustainability. From carbon monitoring to investing in sustainable industries, these innovators are serving to firms and people higher perceive the affect of their actions on the surroundings and, importantly, are exhibiting them particular methods they will take motion.
Finovate has been proud to showcase many of those firms lately. As a part of our Earth Day celebration, we’re that includes under a few of these innovators in addition to the applied sciences they’ve dropped at market to advertise sustainability and reduce damaging impacts on the local weather.
ClimateTrade
Headquartered in Valencia, Spain and Miami, Florida, ClimateTrade is a local weather tech firm that leverages modern expertise—together with a blockchain-based local weather market—to help large-scale decarbonization.
Based in 2018, ClimateTrade made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2023. Francisco Benedito is Co-Founder and CEO.
Cloverly
Cloverly is a local weather motion platform that gives options to assist patrons and sellers of carbon credit, join, transact, and scale their affect. The corporate’s API permits firms to embed local weather motion into their very own buyer’s digital experiences.
Cloverly made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2023 and returned later that 12 months for FinovateFall. The corporate was based in 2018 and is predicated in Atlanta, Georgia. Jason Rubottom is CEO.
Join Earth
Join Earth is an environmental information startup that democratizes entry to sustainability information. The corporate provides carbon monitoring API expertise, Join Insights, that monetary establishments can embed of their apps to offer prospects with a carbon affect estimate for each spend-based transaction.
Headquartered in London, Join Earth made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2023 and returned to the Finovate stage in New York later within the 12 months for FinovateFall. The corporate was based in 2021. Alexander Lempka is Co-Founder and CEO.
ecolytiq
ecolytiq provides a Sustainability-as-a-Service resolution that makes use of cost transactions to calculate particular person environmental impacts, together with CO2 footprint.
Berlin, Germany-based ecolytiq participated in Finovate’s developer convention, FinDEVr 2021. The corporate was based in 2020. David Lais is Co-Founder and Managing Director.
Vitality Shares
Vitality Shares is a FINRA-registered, broker-dealer and fairness crowdfunding platform for utility-scale, renewable vitality tasks all through the US. The corporate’s platform expands entry to funding alternatives within the renewable vitality area which have traditionally been accessible solely to institutional, company, and different privileged traders.
Vitality Shares made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2022 in New York. Headquartered in Pasadena, California, the corporate was based in 2021. Daniel Kim is Founder and CEO.
Inexperienced Portfolio
Inexperienced Portfolio provides a climate-first, AI-powered scoring system and platform that permits people to align their investing and banking selections with their attitudes towards environmental sustainability and local weather change.
Inexperienced Portfolio made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2023. Based in 2020, the corporate is headquartered in New York. Bonnie Gurry is Co-Founder and CEO.
Little Blocks
Little Blocks is a fintech platform for micro-, small-, and medium-sized (MSME) producers constructed round industrial IoT information. The agency helps firms safe entry to danger capital for equipment upgrades that make factories extra productive whereas minimizing environmental prices and impacts.
Making its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2023, Little Blocks was based in 2022. Based mostly in Hyderabad, India, the corporate was co-founded by CEO Hanu Panchakarla.
Photograph by Valentin Antonucci
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