Asuene Raises US$20M in Series B Funding
Summary
The funding comes from from 14 venture capitals and financial institutions, including Pavilion Capital, Axiom Asia Private Capital, Salesforce Ventures, and Masayuki Mochida. The company intends to use the funds to strengthen the recruitment of personnel, expand system functions to improve the usability of measuring carbon emissions throughout the supply chain, and enhance system specifications for the global market. Led by CEO Kohei Nishiwada, Asuene provides Asuzero, a climate cloud platform for measuring, reporting and reducing carbon emissions for enterprises, and visualizes the emissions throughout the supply chain for Scope 1-3 (*1) in the global standardized frameworks, Greenhouse Gas Protocol. The company also provides comprehensive Sustainability Transformation (SX) consultation including initiative alignment assistance for TCFD, CDP, SBTi and PCAF. Asuzero’s contracted orders continue to grow at a significant rate, with an average monthly growth of over +120% and now introduced in 450+ companies.