Empowering you to navigate private markets’ sustainability challenges

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For many private investors and companies, finding reliable benchmark data has been a frustrating obstacle. Existing frameworks like EDCI or ESG_VC provide helpful starting points, but their scope is limited to certain sectors or company stages.

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This leaves investors and companies without clear reference points to understand their position in the market or set meaningful goals. Kara’s benchmarks are here to solve this problem: providing the clarity and insights you need to measure progress and take action.

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How Kara’s benchmarks help you succeed

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Our benchmarks are built with your needs in mind, offering practical benefits to drive progress across your portfolio or organization:

1. Understand your position
   Quickly assess where your portfolio companies stand compared to peers. This context allows you to prioritize focus areas, identify strengths, target areas for improvement, and create actionable sustainability strategies.
   
   
2. Make smarter investment decisions
   Use benchmarks to evaluate sustainability performance at a glance, helping you identify top-performing companies and focus support where it’s needed most. By allocating resources strategically, you can maximize impact and improve returns.
   
   
3. Simplify regulatory compliance
   Stay on top of evolving requirements like SFDR and the EU Taxonomy with benchmarks that clarify your standing against industry standards. Save time, reduce complexity, and align with regulations seamlessly.
   
   
4. Strengthen stakeholder relationships
   Build trust and credibility with investors, LPs, and regulators by presenting a clear, data-driven narrative. Kara’s benchmarks give you the tools to confidently demonstrate your sustainability progress and commitment to impact.
   
   

Designed for action: what makes Kara’s benchmarks different

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Kara’s benchmarks are powered by a dynamic, adaptable data model that brings clarity to sustainability reporting. By harmonizing indicators from multiple frameworks into a unified set of core metrics, our benchmarks ensure:

• Relevance across industries and stages: benchmark performance tailored to your specific context, including specific benchmarks for sizes and industries. 
• Alignment with evolving standards: a flexible system that adapts to new regulations and best practices. Regulation has become a critical point of focus for many companies and our benchmarks align with current regulatory standards. 
• Actionable insights: simple, practical data to guide meaningful decisions and improvements. Benchmarks help your company prioritize areas of improvement and provide additional data for decision making. 

Our benchmarks are built to evolve with your needs, making them a future-proof tool for sustainability success.

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Take the first step toward a sustainable future

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At Kara, we’re committed to making sustainability measurable, actionable, and impactful for private investors and companies. Our benchmarks empower you to assess your position, set achievable goals, and create meaningful improvements.

Ready to see where you stand? Learn more about Kara’s benchmarks and how they can help you take the first step toward building a more sustainable and impactful future.