Sustainability startups and SDGs from the Insurtech Map of the Spanish ecosystem

In a world where sustainability has become a global priority, sustainability startups and SDGs are playing a crucial role in promoting the Sustainable Development Goals. These emerging companies are taking advantage of innovation and technology to create solutions that address environmental, social and economic challenges, from reducing carbon emissions to promoting the circular economy. In this post, we collect the sustainability startups of the IV Map of the Insurtech ecosystem in Spain who are leading the way towards a more balanced, environmentally conscious and responsible future.

APLANET

APLANET provides companies with a ESG data management and analysis technology platform in order to integrate sustainability into their operations. To achieve this, it relies on simple tools and a specialized support team.ESG software connects a company's entire value chain with its ESG objectives, and allows you to orient your entire architecture towards the business profitability and positive impact. This is how, through technology, they accompany organizations oriented to change in digital and sustainable transformation, generating a positive impact on people and the planet. The APLANET solution aligns with strategic business objectives in favor of sustainable development. And, through technology, it analyzes and automates the processing of non-financial information in an efficient and qualitative way, accelerating and making ESG decisions profitable.APLANET was born in 2019, the result of the talent and commitment of its co-founders to innovation, and is currently present in seven countries: Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Poland and Brazil.

Clevergy

Clevergy is the energy management software for Optimize household energy consumption. Its technology allows it to provide personalized recommendations to each home without the need to install additional hardware, from day one and free of charge to the user. Clevergy's business model focuses on reaching as many homes as possible. To this end, it partners with marketers and installers and provides them with its technology to lead the energy transition for your customers. In this way, the company's impact is based on a Win-win for entities and for the end user. The former improve their value proposition, reduce costs and increase revenues by helping to manage the energy of the customer's home in a clear, intuitive and effective way; while citizens save money and energy while collaborating with the planet. Clevergy has developed an app, which is the one that allows homes to be connected to the services of retailers and to smart devices on a single platform. The marketing company can sell it to the user as “their own” and, through it, offer a personalized advice and help you save on your electricity bill.

ClimateTrade

ClimateTrade is the all-in-one platform for understanding the role that each of us plays in the sustainable transition and taking transparent climate measures with a measurable impact. This platform offers funding traceable to a wide range of certified sustainability and carbon offset projects around the world. Carbon compensation is the process of financing projects that reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions to offset their own emissions and achieve a Net Zero carbon footprint. ClimateTrade projects range from reforestation and renewable energy to biodiversity and community projects, with the objective being for the user to support those who are fighting to mitigate the climate crisis. The company, a pioneer in climate actions, intends to promote decarbonization through solutions for individuals and companies looking for ways to deal with climate change. As far as companies are concerned, offering carbon-neutral products and services allows them to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability, meet the expectations of an increasingly demanding customer and raise the level of differentiation from competition to a degree. Marketplace of ClimateTrade, with the broadest portfolio of sustainable projects, companies and individuals can take direct action against climate change by purchasing carbon, plastic and biodiversity credits, as well as renewable energy certificates directly from project developers. This allows them to offset your environmental impact or donate to climate projects in a transparent manner, playing an active role in the climate crisis.

Klima Tco

Klima Tco is a solution developed by carbon footprint experts specifically for online stores. It is designed for contribute to the ecommerce be more sustainable, calculating and neutralizing the emissions generated by their shipments.In other words, what this startup does is manage the carbon footprint of companies. Thanks to its tool, it achieves that shipments of any ecommerce are carbon neutral, meeting sustainability objectives and strengthening their brand strategy. The algorithm calculates exactly the emissions generated by each of the shipments of an online store, allowing them to act accordingly. The calculated carbon footprint is neutralized using internationally certified compensation projects, which guarantees the climate neutrality of the service provided to the customer. In addition, during the purchase process, users are informed of the commitment of the ecommerce with climate change. The ClimaticCo solution is unique in its category and has revolutionized business sustainability. It is affordable both economically and technically, allowing it to be implemented in any ecommerce, regardless of their sector and size. With it, all online stores can offer a service that respects the planet, regardless of the number of shipments you make per year.

Dcycle

Dcycle It's the intelligent ESG metrics platform for companies that want to take control of their environmental data. This empowers SMEs to face the challenge of sustainability in an easy, accessible and intelligent way. It is a B2B solution that provides a comprehensive management of environmental sustainability, simplifying management, analysis and Reporting of the data. In this way, companies from different sectors can measure their footprint, comply with legislation, act to reduce emissions and communicate their impact and that of their products. In addition, the advantage it has is that implementing the analysis is a very fast process. You can create an account and start using the tool in a matter of minutes. And not only that, but Dcycle takes advantage of cloud technologies, which means that there is no need for on-site implementation. In short, Dcycle is the solution for environmental management to automate carbon footprint analysis, simplify Reporting ESD and offset emissions so that companies can grow in a sustainable way.

Donadoo

Donadoo It's the primer Marketplace Solidarity from Spain which works through microdonations, a digital platform for the purchase and sale of second-hand products for a solidarity purpose. It is a digital platform that allows sell second-hand products with the objective of financing solidarity projects (social, cultural or environmental) previously selected by the donor. At Donadoo, the money obtained from transactions, which are managed through a secure payment and shipping system, is transformed into microdonations aimed at projects of Non-Profit Entities.Contributing to a solidarity project through Donadoo is very simple, and offers advantages for both the donor and the buyer. It works as follows: the donor publishes an article on the portal and decides which solidarity project he wants to support with the amount of the sale, thus contributing to the circular economy and also obtaining tax benefits; for his part, the buyer will find the product below the market price, will have the guarantee that his money is protected at all times and will become a responsible buyer.

Greemko

Greemko It's the environmental sustainability software for companies. It offers a comprehensive solution to help companies manage, monitor and improve their practices in relation to the environment. It is a Software as a Service (SaaS) for efficient environmental management with fewer resources and better results, all thanks to digitalization. This software makes it possible to digitize and automate environmental management, the carbon footprint, the reduction and decarbonization plan or the reports and reports, allowing the company to meet its sustainability objectives. With Greemko, companies can carry out active environmental management, automatically calculate the carbon footprint, set objectives for continuous improvement and reduce costs and their environmental impact. In addition, it has customized plans to adapt to the specific environmental needs and challenges of each company, regardless of their sector and size.

Green Urban Data

Green Urban Data Use the environmental intelligence to achieve healthy and resilient cities, that is, it contributes to the adaptation of cities to climate change. The solutions offered by this company facilitate decision-making and prioritization of strategies against climate change. They are aimed at municipalities (achieving strategic plans for adaptation to climate change with measurable and proven solutions), consultants (tools to increase precision in advisory projects) or citizens (empowering people to achieve healthier and more conscious habits, improving their quality of life). The solutions offered by Green Urban Data to combat the effects of climate change are:

• Environmental: service for obtaining environmental indicators for a specific location in the national territory through data from satellite images.
• ABANDONED SOLAR SAAS: solution to automate the detection of the need for solar cleaning.
• HEALTHY ROUTES app: shows the healthiest routes to get around a city. Athletes, allergy sufferers, people with reduced mobility or any citizen can find the path that best suits their needs

Thus, thanks to satellite technology, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, Green Urban Data helps to improve the quality of life in cities.

The Good Goal

The Good Goal creates accessible solutions to boost organizations' ESG strategies aligning and involving employees and raising awareness and transforming people. This company's solution is The Good Goal SaaS, a software for cultural transformation and measurement of positive impact which provides a real-time metrics dashboard. Its objective is to promote the sustainable leadership of organizations and individuals through cultural transformation. And it achieves this by using technology and innovation to generate that positive impact. In other words, it is an application that, through gamification, improves sustainable habits and measures the environmental impact of people and organizations aware of the environment. The B2B model is their main model, the SaaS model for companies and organizations aligned with the SDGs that need to reduce their environmental impact and improve their metrics in view of the European Union's objective for 2030. To this end, The Good Goal offers an app for employees with gamified challenges, habit acquisition competitions and calculation of CO2, water and waste savings. This employee activity data is collected in a real-time dashboard to measure and report on impact metrics and business intelligence data. The Good Goal was recognized as the best digital solution in Spain in the Sustainability 2023 category chosen by the UN.

Hobeen

Hobeen It is a startup that helps companies and public institutions to deploy energy saving and sustainability solutions between its customers, employees and citizens. This is how its technology works applied to different sectors:

• Mobile app: Hobeen provides corporate customers with monitoring and control tools to achieve a reduction in their electricity, water and gas bills, as well as their CO2 footprint.
• Administration Portal: centralizing all the monitoring and control over the users of the platform is possible thanks to this tool designed to have 360º management of the business.
• Energy Dashboard: web panel that reflects application data and that allows companies to collect all the information about their users to help them make better decisions and discover new business opportunities.
• Integration via API: Hobeen's functionalities have the possibility of being packaged via API for integration into other applications. This means new business opportunities, maintenance savings and quick and easy deployment.
• EcoAcademy: it makes it possible to meet CSR and ESG objectives, as well as to achieve environmental awareness. It does this through gamification systems and Engagement with a 100% personalized mobile application with the branding and the colors of the company or institution.

Hobeen adapts to all verticals, with some of the sectors it works with being marketers, Real estate, Corporates, public institutions, insurance companies or energy communities. Currently, the company has helped more than 5,000 users, who have generated savings of more than 100,000 euros, and the CO2 reduction that has saved the planet is more than 800 tons.