PlanA.Earth
Berlin, Germany
January 2022
Software publishing and SaaS platforms
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
Austria,
Belgium,
Bulgaria,
Canada,
France,
Germany,
Ireland,
Italy,
Luxembourg,
Mexico,
Netherlands The,
Poland,
Portugal,
Spain,
Turkey,
United Arab Emirates,
United Kingdom,
United States
Plan A is Europe’s leading corporate carbon accounting, decarbonisation, and CSRD reporting software provider. Founded in 2017, the Greentech company has developed a SaaS platform that combines state-of-the-art technologies and the latest scientific standards (compliant with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and Science Based Targets initiative). The certified carbon management platform, along with science-based expert support, and a network of service partners, enables businesses to manage their entire net-zero journey – from data collection and emissions calculations to target setting and decarbonisation – in one central hub. The Berlin, Paris, and London-based company counts clients such as Chloé, BMW, Deutsche Bank, Visa, GANNI, N26, HomeToGo, trivago, Personio, Sorare, KFC, and DFB as well as many suppliers among its 1,500 customers. To date, Plan A has raised funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Visa, Deutsche Bank, Opera Tech Ventures (VC arm of BNP Paribas), HV Capital, and others.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 20.7
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Governance 20.7
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 36.0
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 26.9
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 27.3
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Customers 3.4
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.