Collect and aggregate ESG metrics directly from your portfolio companies with Dasseti ESG for GPs
Then use the metrics to inform client reporting, regulatory disclosures, ESG reports, or internally to measure progress against targets.
1 - Define the metrics you need to collect
Conduct a materiality assessment to define the metrics you need to collect to satisfy client reporting, regulatory disclosures or map to frameworks like PRI, EDCI, GRESB, SDGs and others.
2 - Collect metrics using a flexible data collection tool
Automate and speed up data collection with custom questionnaires. Prefill with in-built AI to make it easier for portfolio companies to submit data.
3 - Validate data on entry
Dasseti partners with EDCI for data validation and industry benchmark services, and uses in-built validation tools to verify format and scope as data in entered by portfolio companies.
4 - Reporting
Aggregate and analyze data in smart analytics dashboards. Use in-built AI to spot trends and highlight insights. Create custom client reports and show snapshots or progress over time. Use the data in regulatory disclosures and reporting.
Equip your ESG team with the tools they need
Off the shelf ESG data may not give you what you need. Consider collecting proprietary data if you:
- Have unique ESG reporting needs
- Need to align more closely with LP requirements
- Need greater control over your data quality
- Want real time data at your fingertips
Select the right framework or collect custom metrics to meet your reporting KPIs
Whether you are looking for climate related disclosures to inform regulatory reporting, or sustainability metrics for client reporting, you need a platform that is customizable and easy for your portfolio companies to use. Dasseti ESG for GPs is:
- Flexible and highly customizable
- Designed to enforce data quality with multiple validations inbuilt
- Easy to use
- Equipped with powerful analytics dashboards
- Set up for one-click reporting
Commonly collected metrics include:
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Environmental Metrics
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Social Metrics
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Governance Metrics
Environmental Metrics
To measure a firm's environmental progress, you can collect various metrics including:
- Energy usage
- Water usage
- Waste generation
- Carbon emissions
- Sustainable procurement
- Product development
- Biodiversity conservation
- Renewable energy adoption
Social Metrics
Measuring a firm's social progress requires the collection of relevant metrics that can provide insights into the company's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, as well as its impact on stakeholders and society as a whole:
- Representation
- Retention
- Promotions
- Leadership Pipeline
- Employment Pipeline
- Pay Equity
- Employee Resource Group (ERG) Membership
- Participation Rates in Mentoring and Sponsorship Programs
- Participation Rates in Diversity and Inclusion Training Programs
- Number of Lives Impacted
- Economic Empowerment
- Community Engagement
Governance Metrics
Evidence of good governance practices is an indication of a sound approach to risk management and high levels of accountability.
Key metrics include:
- Structure and oversight
- Code and values
- Transparency and reporting
- Cyber risk and systems
- Long-term perspective
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