Learn about the company that enables sustainable procurement of standard products.
Organizations are constantly buying standard products: IT supplies, office chairs, adhesive tape, protective gloves, you name it. This has to happen quickly. They can't spend a lot of time comparing the sustainability of, say, 500 different available keyboards. Thus, they need a normed cross-category labelling that allows to sort products by sustainability.
ESG Score provides this labelling. This is our contribution to our societies' sustainability transformation and our ESG Score is all about making it as easy as pie for everyone to choose sustainable products.
Please know: Standard products may sound unimportant, but the volumes and associated impact are enormous. For example, our customer Siemens spends more than three billion euros on such products. Every year.
If you want to know more about how we score products, please read
The science behind ESG Score.
Jan has over two decades experience in B2B software solutions. It was during his responsibility for the marketplaces management of Unite Mercateo, a leading B2B procurement platform, that he realised the market lacks a normed sustainability measure and founded ESG Score.
Joachim is the tech brain all the startups out there would love to have. Joe started coding at the age of twelve. Before joining ESG Score, Joe managed the IT stacks of > 20 Burda ventures.
Rainer and Thomas are the founders of H&Z, a German 100 Mio € Management Consulting firm. Both are networkers by heart, have direct access to many CPOs, and help and invest in startups.
HTGF is an investment company focused on start-ups which since 2005 has raised four funds. Currently, HTGF has around 1.4 billion Euros under management. To date, more than 750 high-tech start-ups have been financed with more than 180 successful exits, including IPOs, e.g. of Emma, Mister Spex, and Rebelle.
Christian is an early stage investor in B2B software companies since 2015. He began his career at various German startups. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Cologne and a Master's in International Business from Maastricht University.
Michael is a German economist. Since 2003 he is Professor of Materials Management and Distribution and Vice President for Research at the Universität der Bundeswehr München.
Rolf is a marketing executive with deep experience in building and growing strong B2B software brands by mastering digital strategy and execution, e-commerce, business development and product management. Rolf holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Industrial Engineering and Management from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Thomas is an experienced CFO and entrepreneur, who has over 35 years of professional expertise. He currently leads the global implementation of auditable sustainability reporting and controlling at Siemens.