SDG Assessment

What SDG Assessment does

SDG Assessment is a UK-based, privately held fintech startup founded in 2022 and headquartered in London. The company is building a platform intended to verify and fund projects aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, addressing what it characterises as a structural gap in infrastructure for SDG-aligned project financing. The platform is currently under development, with a commercial launch scheduled for June, and no product modules, technical architecture, or technology stack have been publicly disclosed. No mobile application, API, SDK, or third-party integrations are present in the source data, and no patents, certifications, or regulatory licences have been filed.

The company's business model and monetisation mechanics are not yet defined. There is no disclosed pricing model, no named customers, no customer segmentation, and no revenue figure reported across the available data. To date, SDG Assessment has raised approximately $211,900 in cumulative disclosed funding across three small rounds: an association with the AcceliCITY powered by Leading Cities program in June 2022, a $11,900 PIHG investment in April 2025, and a $200,000 round led by Piece Future in December 2025. PIHG has additionally taken a 3% equity stake with an option to increase to 10%, positioning it as both a financial partner and a minority shareholder. The company has a full leadership team in place, including a CEO (Lowellyne James), Chairman (Graham Scotton), CSO, CIO, CTO, and a Marketing Director, indicating organisational readiness for the upcoming launch despite a headcount of 1-10 employees.

At this stage, SDG Assessment is best characterised as an early-stage, pre-revenue venture whose investment case rests entirely on the successful launch and adoption of a single, not-yet-shipping platform in a developing category. The combination of minimal capital raised, no disclosed revenue, no customer base, and no differentiated technology footprint places the company at the earliest end of the venture lifecycle, with the planned June launch representing the first material value-creation catalyst.

Name

SDG Assessment

Legal name

SDG Assessment

Website

https://SDG-Assessment.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

SDG Assessment is a UK-based, pre-revenue fintech startup developing a platform to verify and fund projects aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Founded in 2022, it is preparing a June platform launch and has raised approximately $211,900 to date.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sustainability Verification Platform

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

SDG / Thematic Sustainable Investment Funds (FSANAJAN)

Keywords

• Sustainability verification platform
• Impact project funding
• UN SDG alignment
• ESG project assessment
• SDG fintech solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Core offering

SDG Assessment is developing a fintech platform dedicated to verifying projects against the UN Sustainable Development Goals and channelling funding to qualifying initiatives. The platform is intended to address the absence of dedicated infrastructure for both verification and capital deployment in the SDG project space, with an initial launch scheduled for June.

Product overview

SDG Assessment is developing a platform for verifying and funding projects aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. No specific product names, modules, or detailed product architecture were available in the source data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Clarity AI: Tech-led ESG analytics and impact measurement platform serving investors and corporates. Comparable as a newer, platform-based verifier of sustainability/SDG alignment competing against incumbents.
• Watershed: Enterprise platform for carbon accounting and sustainability reporting. Comparable as a software-driven verification and disclosure platform targeting corporates, overlapping with SDG measurement workflows.
• Uplink (World Economic Forum): WEF-hosted innovation platform surfacing SDG-positive ventures and connecting them to funding. Comparable in linking SDG-aligned projects to capital, though as an ecosystem/matchmaking layer rather than a verification product.

Direct peers

• Sustainalytics: Provides ESG ratings, research and analytics used by asset managers and project developers. Directly comparable to SDG Assessment as an independent verifier of sustainability/SDG-aligned performance, though at vastly greater scale and breadth.
• EcoVadis: Provides sustainability ratings for companies and supply chains, including assessments against international standards. Comparable verification-and-funding-adjacent business model targeting corporates seeking credible SDG/ESG performance data.
• Verra: Runs standards and verification programs (e.g., VCS, Gold Standard-adjacent) for carbon and sustainable development credits. Closely analogous to SDG Assessment's project verification role, but in carbon/SDG credit markets.

Broad incumbents

• MSCI ESG Research: Offers ESG ratings, climate data and impact analytics to global investors. Comparable because it underpins SDG-aligned investment decisions and verification at the institutional level — broader scope but overlapping customer base.
• S&P Global Sustainable1: Delivers ESG data, scores, and sustainable finance intelligence to corporates and investors. Overlaps with SDG Assessment's verification and funding intelligence role, particularly around climate and SDG-aligned disclosures.
• Sphera: Provides ESG, EHS and sustainability software and data to large enterprises. Overlaps with SDG Assessment on sustainability data, reporting and verification workflows.

Regional players

• Carbon Trust: UK-headquartered sustainability advisory and verification organization. Comparable as a verification-focused player, primarily serving UK/European clients, aligned with the same UK sustainable finance ecosystem SDG Assessment operates in.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SDGAssessment
• Facebookfacebook.com/SDGAssessmentApp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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