Celsia

Celsia is a CleanTech company. Its primary product is the Celsia EU Taxonomy scoring platform that helps companies have an easy process of calculating the EU Taxonomy score. It produces a compliant report that can be shared with stakeholders and authorities.
 

In 2020, when the pandemic was at its height, Celsia's CTO Morten Hillbom and CEO Petter Reistad took part in "The Climate Change Hackathon", where they battled the challenge of comparing companies' sustainability impact. - We need a tool for investors and lenders to allocate capital more sustainably! But how can we really compare the sustainability level of wildly different companies, let's say, such as Deutsche Bank to General Electric? Petter shouted in frustration.

After the hackathon, Morten and Petter couldn't put themselves to rest. A common metric for measuring how sustainable companies are could revolutionize how the financial world operated. They were convinced that if there just existed a framework for scoring sustainability efficiently, they could create the software that'd make it simple for the market to start scoring companies.

With Cathrine Dehli, sustainability veteran and VP of Sustainability at a software unicorn at the time, they finally found what they were looking for. - There are frameworks like this being produced all around the globe, right now! she said. The EU's sustainable finance classification system, the EU taxonomy, had come the furthest.

And with that, we were off.

Days later, Celsia was a reality - soon becoming a full-time endeavor. Within months of inception, there were 10 people on the team and slack channels buzzing with activity (through lockdowns and quarantines). Into 2022, Celsia's team keeps growing and expanding with diversity and professionalism. All Celsians work together to accelerate the path towards carbon neutrality by making sustainability scoring simple, fast, and efficient.