Sustainability has become a top agenda item for companies over the past few years, especially as they seek to add value and enhance their significance to society. Impact is becoming increasingly important in the implementation of sustainability strategies, and is expected to become the new lingua franca both internally and externally in the future.
IMPACTLAKE provides solutions for management strategy, planning, and various sustainability-related themes based on impact.
For companies, sustainability initiatives are entering a new phase. Many companies have already completed their efforts to address ESG in the narrow sense, with an eye on external evaluation, and it is expected that the focus will shift from disclosure to implementation, and from external to internal.
Many startups have their very raison d’etre rooted in sustainability, with an eye toward solving social issues. The impact of this framework as the foundation of their value will bring even more possibilities to startups in the future.
Finance is playing an ever greater role in achieving a sustainable society, and the actions of institutional investors and banks, in particular, as market and corporate leaders, are expected to have a significant system-level impact.
Starting with asset owners’ growing interest in impact, impact is entering the scope of startup investment in a variety of contexts and intensities, including value enhancement, investment strategy, and maximization of existence value as a fund.
In proportion to the growing interest in impact among institutional investors and listed companies, impact is becoming increasingly important and useful in private equity for value enhancement and investment strategies.
Based on double materiality (corporate → social impact + social → corporate impact), the resolution will include actual impact and factors of high importance, and clarify the connection to specific actions.
Clarify and articulate Corporate Value through visualization of financial and social values, and incorporate and align them into mid- to long-term plans for each business and management activity.
We will consider solutions to key global issues (e.g., decarbonization, biodiversity, supply chain, etc.) as important opportunities, and consider how to commercialize and monetize them by leveraging our own strengths.
Visualize and quantify the social value (impact) created by individual projects and initiatives, and use this information for external disclosure and PR, as well as for internal decision making regarding projects and investments.
We will establish an internal flow and system to link diverse corporate initiatives to the value creation story and manage them in an integrated and sustainable manner.
By determining the robustness and suitability of investment projects from impact and ESG perspectives, we support implementation decisions that meet the needs of investors and stakeholders.
In addition to financial perspectives (growth potential and scale), business strategies are reconstructed from non-financial perspectives (social value, human capital, etc.) to maximize growth potential.
By visualizing and quantifying the impact created through the business and integrating it with the business plan, we can build a more complete corporate growth story.
We support the preparation and introduction of management to promote the social value created by the company to impact investors and responsible investors at the time of IPO.
< dd>Create an implementation policy, structure, and flow for continuous IMM (Impact Measurement & Management), which is a requirement for an impact IPO.
We will consider flexible responses to ESG issues, which are increasingly requested by investors as companies grow, in accordance with the company’s stage, size, and business form.
We will establish and provide a flow and structure for implementing fund-level impact management in an integrated and sustainable manner with investment activities.
Visualize and quantify the social value (impact) created by the fund through the investee, and use it for external disclosure, PR, and various decision making.
We support the planning, information gathering, and production of management reports, sustainability reports, and impact reports in accordance with the dialogue plans with LPs and other stakeholders.
Establish an internal flow and system to link diverse initiatives at portfolio companies to the value creation story and manage them in an integrated and sustainable manner.
Visualize and quantify the social value (impact) created by the portfolio company’s businesses and initiatives, and use this information for external disclosure and PR, as well as for internal decision making regarding business and investment.
Based on the business seeds such as technologies possessed by the investee, we determine whether there are enough business opportunities from the perspective of solving social issues and creating impact, and link them to the most appropriate business strategy.
We provide comprehensive support for impact evaluation and ongoing development of impact management systems to enable portfolio companies to realize impact IPOs.
By visualizing and quantifying the impact created through the portfolio company’s business and integrating it with the business plan, we build a more complete corporate growth story.
As an investor who has promoted impact investing in IPOs and M&A, we will evaluate whether the event will contribute to the future growth of the investee and, by extension, to the creation of greater impact.
Establish a flow and system to link various initiatives in various asset classes to the value creation story and manage them in an integrated and sustainable manner.
Visualize and quantify the social value (impact) created by the portfolio company’s businesses and initiatives, and understand the short-, medium-, and long-term impact and synergies on the core businesses of the company and asset owners.
We support the planning, information gathering, and production of management reports, sustainability reports, and impact reports in accordance with dialogue plans with asset owners and other stakeholders.
We visualize and quantify the economic and social significance of the companies, businesses, products, and services in which we invest, and propose measures to maximize their performance and corporate value.
Based on the social value (impact) and trends that the portfolio aims to achieve, we will examine the combination of solutions and investment targets to minimize investment risk and maximize opportunities.
When an investee (mainly an asset owner or a company) is ultimately acquired as its own business or function, planning is done to maximize the creation of targeted results and its external reputation.
Since the sustainability initiatives to be financed are wide-ranging and highly individualized, it is necessary to implement them using appropriate indicators and with a low monitoring burden.