What Richmond Global Sciences does

Richmond Global Sciences (RGS) is a London-based, venture-backed private company founded in 2019 that builds AI-powered analytics to assign financial values to the environmental and social impacts of companies. Its flagship RIFT (Real Impact in Financial Terms) platform is described as the first system to monetize impact at the product level, combining science-based outcome metrics (60+ across Environment, Employment, and Customer pillars) with proprietary AI components including a patented information retrieval system for ESG data and a generative-AI-driven Narrative Intelligence Tool that extracts structured data from public company documents. Supporting infrastructure includes the PSICS classification system covering 350+ product groups, extensive price elasticity of demand values, an ML-augmented multi-layer data pipeline with automated outlier detection, and impact methodologies aligned with the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI).

RGS serves four primary customer segments — public equity investors, private equity investors, fixed income investors (notably Auto Loan ABS climate analytics), and corporates — through enterprise subscriptions on the RIFT platform, supplemented by a free academic tier for universities and research institutions. The company reports coverage of 10,000+ publicly listed companies and operates an Impact Leaders Portfolio indexing 275 top performers across all 11 sectors. Monetization runs through subscription-based platform access and data monetization (PSICS datafeeds, UN SDG alignment, ESG raw data, product impact assessment), with quote-based annual pricing for institutional clients; universities receive free access. Distribution is enterprise sales-led via 'Book a Demo' CTAs, complemented by a freemium self-serve layer, a CSRHub integration that embeds RGS analytics into third-party ESG ratings, and a global footprint spanning EMEA, North America, and Asia/Pacific.

The company was co-founded by CEO Sakis Kotsantonis and Professor George Serafeim (originator of Harvard Business School's Impact-Weighted Accounts Project), is backed by S&P Global, Richmond Global, Metavallon VC, and the Ford Foundation, and operates with an intentionally lean 11–50 person team. Recent product expansion has extended RGS beyond impact accounting into AI Thematic Investing (including a Cryptocurrency theme) and Tariff Impact Analytics, signaling deliberate platform broadening.

Name

Richmond Global Sciences

Legal name

Richmond Global Sciences, Inc.

Website

https://rgsciences.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Richmond Global Sciences is a London-based AI-driven impact analytics company that built the RIFT platform to monetize corporate environmental and social impacts in financial terms, serving impact investors, private equity firms, fixed income managers, and corporates globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

ESG & Impact Analytics Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

ESG/Sustainability Reporting & Disclosure Platforms (EUABAEAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Audit-Ready Controls, Assurance & Compliance Workflow Tools (CSRD/SEC/ISSB) (EUABAEAG), Emissions Factors, LCA & Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) Platforms (EUABAEAD), Supply Chain (Scope 3) Emissions & Supplier Engagement Platforms (EUABAEAE), Benchmarking, Ratings & Stakeholder Reporting Portals (Scorecards, Dashboards) (EUABAEAJ), Supplier Engagement & Value-Chain Decarbonization Programs (EUABAKAE)

Keywords

• Impact analytics
• ESG data platform
• Sustainable finance
• Impact accounting
• Climate analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Subscription Service: Subscription-based access to the RIFT platform providing impact analytics, AI-powered portfolio tools, and granular financial data for clients seeking positive environmental, social, and financial returns.
2. Data and Analytics Services: Revenue generated from providing structured, quantitative impact data including ESG impact analytics, UN SDG alignment tools, ESG raw datafeeds, Product Impact Assessment, and sustainability report optimization.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Richmond Global Sciences operates the RIFT (Real Impact in Financial Terms) platform, an AI-powered impact accounting system that assigns financial values to the environmental and social impacts of publicly listed companies. The company combines proprietary AI tools, a patented information retrieval system, generative AI document processing, and science-based impact models (aligned with IFVI methodology) to deliver impact analytics, ESG data, UN SDG alignment, climate and tariff analytics to institutional investors and corporates across 10,000+ companies.

Product overview

Richmond Global Sciences (RGS) offers a unified platform architecture centered on the RIFT (Real Impact in Financial Terms) platform, which serves as the core impact accounting system. The platform is supplemented by multiple specialized modules and tools: Impact Analytics and UN SDG Impact Alignment for portfolio impact analysis; PSICS Revenue Datafeed for granular product-level revenue data; AI Thematic Investing Solutions with the Narrative Intelligence Tool for thematic investment research; Climate Transition Alignment Tool and Fixed Income Climate Analytics for climate-focused analysis; and Tariff Impact Analytics including the Tariff Tracker and Tariff Strategy Explorer for trade policy analysis. RGS also offers the Impact Leaders Portfolio as an investable index of 275 top-performing companies. All products leverage proprietary AI tools, patented impact assessment engines, and science-based methodologies aligned with IFVI impact accounting principles.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• RIFT™: Flagship impact accounting platform that uses AI and scientific data to assign financial values to social and environmental impacts
• RGS Impact Leaders Portfolio
• PSICS

Products and services

• RIFT (Real Impact in Financial Terms) Platform Flagship AI-powered impact accounting platform that uses AI and scientific data to assign financial values to the social and environmental impacts of companies, translating sustainability metrics into financial terms for institutional investors and corporates.
• Impact Analytics Portfolio impact analytics module that enables investors to analyze portfolios based on impact accounting principles, evaluating companies' environmental, employment, and customer impacts.
• Products and Services Revenue Datafeed (PSICS) Standardized, granular product-level revenue datafeed using the proprietary Products and Services Industry Classification System (PSICS) covering 350+ product groups for structured analysis of company revenue data.
• UN SDG Impact Alignment Module that calculates company contributions to UN Sustainable Development Goals expressed in monetized impact terms.
• AI Thematic Investing Solutions Thematic portfolio creation module leveraging proprietary AI tools including the Narrative Intelligence Tool to identify companies mapped to specific investment themes (e.g., Cryptocurrency).
• Climate Transition Alignment Tool Tool to identify companies developing or deploying climate technologies for climate transition analysis.
• Fixed Income Climate Analytics Data and analytics product for securitized products, specifically Auto Loan Asset-Backed Securities, providing associated emissions data and climate impact assessment.
• Tariff Impact Analytics Analytics product that turns complex tariff data into revenue impact insights using price elasticity of demand models for 350+ product groups.
• Tariff Tracker Real-time monitoring tool providing structured overview of global tariff measures with searchable, filterable data and scenario toggles.
• Tariff Strategy Explorer Interactive tool within the RIFT platform for modeling optimal tariff pass-through rates by balancing cash costs and revenue loss to minimize total financial impact, calculating U-shaped loss curves across price elasticity scenarios.
• RGS Impact Leaders Portfolio Equally-weighted portfolio index of 275 global publicly traded companies with top impact performance across Environmental, Employment, and Customer impact dimensions, covering all 11 sectors with top 10 companies per sector, rebalanced annually.
• Water Impact Data (IFVI Partnership) Free water impact and GHG emissions data for 10,000+ publicly listed companies on the RIFT platform, calculated using IFVI's value factors and impact accounting methodology.

Quantifiable outcome

• VoltUp generates $0.84 in positive environmental and social impact for every $1 in revenue
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• UCL School of ManagementminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Academic partnership for research collaboration on sustainability and impact measurement for SMEs, evaluating private companies against public-company benchmarks.
• Tecno InternationalminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Research partner collaborating with RGS and UCL on white paper exploring sustainability data-driven impact management for small and medium-sized enterprises.
• EM Impact CapitalminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024UK-based investment management firm specializing in sustainable investments in emerging markets. Partnered with RGS to assess impact of portfolio company VoltUp using impact accounting principles.
• IFVI (International Foundation For Valuing Impacts)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022RGS partners with IFVI, an independent nonprofit building and scaling the practice of impact accounting. RGS uses IFVI's methodology and value factors for calculating impact metrics. Deepened partnership in 2025 to provide free Water Impact and GHG emissions data for 10,000+ companies.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Clarity AI: AI-driven sustainability analytics platform offering ESG ratings, impact measurement, and regulatory reporting for investors and corporates. Directly comparable to RIFT's monetized-impact thesis and target institutional buyer base.
• Sustainalytics: Specialist ESG ratings and impact analytics firm serving institutional investors. Directly comparable in delivering ESG risk and impact data into investment decision workflows.

Broad incumbents

• MSCI ESG Research: Incumbent ESG data, ratings, and analytics provider serving the same institutional investors RGS targets. Offers broad portfolio-level ESG analytics as part of a much larger data franchise.
• S&P Global Sustainable1: S&P's dedicated ESG and climate data unit. Direct competitor in monetized impact and climate analytics; uniquely overlaps with RGS given S&P is also an RGS investor.
• Bloomberg ESG: Enterprise ESG data product embedded in the Bloomberg Terminal, serving the same buy-side and corporate ESG workflows as RIFT but at vastly greater distribution scale.
• ISS ESG: Provider of ESG ratings, climate, and impact solutions for investors and corporates. Overlaps with RGS across portfolio analytics, climate, and reporting use cases.
• LSEG (Refinitiv) ESG: ESG and sustainable finance data franchise inside LSEG, competing directly for institutional ESG data budgets with broad coverage across equities, fixed income, and corporates.
• Workiva: Cloud platform for ESG and financial reporting, used by large corporates for sustainability disclosures. Adjacent to RGS at the reporting layer rather than the impact-analytics layer.

Emerging players

• Persefoni: Climate management and accounting platform focused on enterprise carbon footprint measurement. Comparable in delivering AI-enabled impact data, but more concentrated on Scope 1-3 carbon rather than broader ESG monetization.
• Watershed: Enterprise carbon accounting and climate platform. Comparable as a newer entrant monetizing environmental data for enterprises, though narrower in scope than RIFT's multi-dimensional impact approach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/RGSciences
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/richmond-global-sciences

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors4 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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