InvestAssure

What InvestAssure does

InvestAssure Ltd. is a privately held UK-based advisory and software firm, headquartered in Oxford, that helps businesses identify environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks in international supply chains and investment portfolios, with primary data coverage across Asia-Pacific. The company sells into enterprise buyers — supply chain managers, financial institutions evaluating emerging-market investments, and corporate responsibility programs — that need ongoing visibility beyond traditional point-in-time factory audits. Founded by Paul Wenman and operating with 11-50 employees, it has run continuously since 2009/2010 without disclosed institutional funding.

The company's core technology is a platform-plus-modules architecture built around two proprietary web tools. NIMBUS is a web monitoring service and risk-alert database that scans news and social media to track ESG allegations, incidents and non-compliances across 12,000+ Asia-Pacific companies, accumulating 20,000+ categorized, rated (1-4) records since 2009 at a steady cadence of 150-200 new alerts per month. SMART is an online management-and-assurance platform offering self-assessment questionnaires, e-learning, audit support and benchmarking, structured around recognized standards (e.g., BES 6002, ETI Base Code, GSCP, IFC Performance Standards, IRMA, ISO 14001). The platform is augmented by a four-node Southeast Asia research network (Hong Kong, Beijing, Manila, Bangkok) and a UK core team with Big Four / ERM pedigree that delivers custom offline research, due diligence, monitoring and assurance engagements.

The business model combines recurring NIMBUS subscriptions (Single Company Check, Multi-Company Check, Power Search), SMART platform licensing on a freemium-plus-add-ons basis, and professional services for assurance, advisory, due diligence and customized research. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Distribution is direct — including a self-serve NIMBUS subscription flow plus founder-led enterprise sales — and a licensing agreement with BRE allows SMART-based BES 6002 self-assessments to be accepted by accredited verifiers, embedding the platform in a recognized assurance workflow.

Name

InvestAssure

Legal name

InvestAssure Ltd.

Website

https://investassure.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

InvestAssure is an Oxford-based advisory and software firm that helps enterprises manage ESG risks in international supply chains and investment portfolios, primarily across Asia-Pacific. It operates two web tools — the NIMBUS risk-alert database and the SMART assurance platform — supported by Southeast Asia research partners and consulting services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

ESG Risk Management Software

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940), All Other Financial Investment Activities (52399), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro industry

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ESG Data, Ratings & Research (Providers, Methodologies, Analytics)

Financial & Insurance/Asset & Wealth Management/Asset Management — ESG/Sustainable & Impact Investing

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ESG/Sustainable Investment Advisory

Financial & Insurance/Financial Advisory, Brokerage & Intermediation/Investment Advisory & Financial Planning

SECONDARYFSACAGAH

ESG & Sustainability Research

Financial & Insurance/Capital Markets & Securities/Securities Research & Analytics

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ESG Reporting, Disclosure & Regulatory Compliance (SFDR, EU Taxonomy, TCFD/ISSB)

Financial & Insurance/Asset & Wealth Management/Asset Management — ESG/Sustainable & Impact Investing

Keywords

• ESG risk monitoring
• Supply chain due diligence
• Responsible business assurance
• Corporate compliance software
• Web-based risk alerts

Headquarters

HQ city

Oxford

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. NIMBUS Online Subscriptions: Subscription-based access to NIMBUS risk alert database including Single Company Check, Multi-Company Check, and Power Search capabilities. Subscribers can search by company, country, dates, ESG category and risk rating.
2. Offline Research and Consulting Services: Custom research assignments including Portfolio Monitoring, Trends Analysis, Due Diligence Support, and Customised Web Research. Delivered by experienced professionals with international research capabilities.
3. SMART Platform Licensing: SMART platform can be licensed with off-the-shelf content or customized to meet corporate requirements. Core module free with add-on options available.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

InvestAssure provides web-based ESG (environmental, social, governance) risk monitoring and responsible business assurance through two proprietary platforms — NIMBUS (a corporate risk alert database tracking allegations, incidents, and non-compliances across Asia-Pacific) and SMART (an online platform for self-assessment, e-learning, and audit support). These tools are augmented by experienced consultants offering advisory, auditing, and offline research services for supply chain, investment, and lending portfolio risk management.

Product overview

InvestAssure offers a platform-plus-modules architecture comprising two primary web tools: NIMBUS and SMART. NIMBUS is a web monitoring and corporate risk database that tracks ESG risk alerts across emerging markets, monitoring 12,000+ companies across Asia-Pacific with 20,000+ corporate ESG risk records since 2009. SMART is an online platform for management and assurance of responsible business risks, supporting self-assessment, e-learning, audit support, and monitoring. SMART offers off-the-shelf modules based on standards such as BES 6002, ETI Base Code, GSCP Reference Tools, and others. Both products are supported by international advisory, auditing, and research services delivered by experienced professionals based in Oxford, UK with partners across Asia-Pacific.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• NIMBUS: Web monitoring and corporate risk database for ESG risk alerts, tracking corporate allegations, incidents and non-compliances across emerging markets.
• SMART

Products and services

• NIMBUS Web monitoring and corporate risk database that tracks ESG risk alerts across emerging markets, monitoring 12,000+ companies across Asia-Pacific 365 days a year by scanning web news and social media for incidents, allegations, and non-compliance. Categorized risk alerts rated on a 1-4 risk scale.
• SMART Online platform for management and assurance of responsible business risks, supporting managers, auditors, analysts and planners with self-assessment questionnaires, e-learning modules, and benchmarking tools for sustainable and responsible supply chains, investments, and lending portfolios.
• SMART BES 6002 Module Self-assessment module based on BRE's Ethical Labour Sourcing standard (BES 6002), providing a menu-driven interface for understanding the twelve main elements of the standard and self-assessing compliance. Self-assessments completed on SMART are accepted by accredited BES 6002 verifiers.
• Portfolio Monitoring Service to keep track of suppliers, investees, or customers with regular monitoring reports and risk alerts drawn from the NIMBUS database, aimed at enterprises with international supply chains or investment portfolios.
• Trends Analysis Service to identify ESG risk trends and present tailored factsheets and reports, including country-risk snapshots and sector-specific ESG risk trend analyses for corporate strategy and portfolio management teams.
• Due Diligence Support Service combining NIMBUS risk alerts with screening of sanctions lists, offline local media, government records, and community/NGO opinions to support pre-contract due diligence assessments for corporate clients.
• Customised Web Research Customised web research service for companies, individuals, and projects not currently monitored by NIMBUS, conducted by the InvestAssure research team.
• Policies and Business Codes Development Consulting service developing consistent sets of policies and business codes aligned with corporate responsibility programmes and international responsible business standards.
• Performance Management Participative workshops and targeted training services addressing the 'glass floor' barrier to enable operational management to act on responsible business commitments made by senior leadership.
• Risk-Assessments and Due Diligence Risk-based approach to assessments and due diligence for corporate strategy, facility management, supply chains, investments, and product development, delivered by experienced consultants.
• Monitoring and Assurance Risk-based monitoring combining internal performance reports, self-disclosure, compliance audits, and web allegations, with public report assurance providing independent opinion statements on responsible business performance.

Quantifiable outcome

• Monitor ~100 companies for a year at cost of one typical factory audit
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• BRE (Building Research Establishment)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInvestAssure is licensed by BRE to use the BES 6002 (Ethical Labour Sourcing) standard on the SMART platform. The license authorizes use of SMART_BES 6002 as the basis for verification, meaning self-assessments completed on SMART are accepted by accredited BES 6002 verifiers.
• Southeast Asia Research NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerComprehensive Southeast Asia research network with partners in Hong Kong, Beijing, Manila and Bangkok providing international reach and local knowledge for research, training, support and investigative assignments.
• Pool of Experts (Former ERM, EY, KPMG)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUK-based core management team with previous experience from leading management and technical consultancies including ERM, Ernst & Young and KPMG, providing expertise for business risk advice and assurance.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Datamaran: Datamaran is an ESG analytics platform focused on identifying material ESG issues from regulatory and media signals, used primarily by corporates for strategy and disclosure. It overlaps with the SMART/NIMBUS combination in mining public information for ESG risk and materiality insight, though it is more analytics-focused than alert-driven.
• IntegrityNext: IntegrityNext is a supply-chain sustainability platform that helps buyers monitor and manage supplier ESG compliance through automated questionnaires and risk alerts. Comparable to InvestAssure's supply-chain risk management value proposition and the SMART self-assessment workflow.

Broad incumbents

• MSCI ESG Research: MSCI ESG provides ESG ratings, data and research used by global institutional investors. It overlaps with InvestAssure's investment and lending portfolio ESG risk monitoring use case but at vastly greater scale, with global coverage and well-established institutional client relationships.
• LSEG (Refinitiv) ESG: LSEG (formerly Refinitiv) provides broad ESG data, scores and analytics for institutional investors and corporates. Comparable to InvestAssure's data-plus-research model, but integrated into a much larger financial data infrastructure with global coverage and multiple data feeds.
• Morningstar Sustainalytics: Sustainalytics (owned by Morningstar) is one of the largest ESG risk ratings providers, offering company-level ESG risk scores widely used in investment decisions and regulatory reporting. Comparable to InvestAssure's NIMBUS portfolio monitoring value proposition, but with global coverage and integrated data feeds into major asset owners.
• Sphera (Blackstone portfolio company): Sphera provides enterprise sustainability, ESG and operational risk software including supply-chain due diligence and product stewardship. Comparable to the broader InvestAssure value proposition around risk-based assessments and supply-chain assurance, but at enterprise-software scale.

Direct peers

• EcoVadis: EcoVadis is a leading supply-chain ESG ratings platform that scores suppliers on environmental, labour, ethics and sustainable procurement criteria. It directly overlaps with InvestAssure's supply chain risk management segment and the SMART self-assessment workflow, serving many of the same corporate procurement teams.
• RepRisk: RepRisk is the most direct peer: it runs a web-scraping ESG and business-conduct risk data platform that monitors news, social media and other public sources for ESG-related allegations and incidents on companies worldwide. Both RepRisk and InvestAssure/NIMBUS focus on emerging-market ESG risk intelligence for investors and supply-chain managers, with a similar methodology of categorizing and rating risks.
• Verisk Maplecroft: Verisk Maplecroft produces country, political and ESG risk indices and research used by multinationals and investors for emerging-market exposure assessment. Overlaps directly with InvestAssure's NIMBUS emerging-market focus and the trends/country-risk analysis services.
• Sedex: Sedex operates a global platform for supplier ethical trade information, including self-assessment questionnaires and risk data, used by retailers and brands for supply-chain ESG management. Directly comparable to InvestAssure's supply-chain ESG and supplier risk monitoring use case via SMART.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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