We empower investors to optimize their engagement process by providing a purpose-built engagement management application

Who we are

We are a technology company offering a product suite that helps investors manage data related to engagement with portfolio companies on environmental, social, and governance issues. Our technology streamlines processes and workflows, enabling investors to engage with companies more efficiently. Ultimately, we aim to empower investors to drive better outcomes for their clients and society at large.

Our team consists of former asset managers, responsible investment professionals, engineers, and developers dedicated to helping improve and digitalise the engagement workflow. We are all passionate about sustainability and believe - like most others - that active ownership is a key tool for investors to become more responsible stewards of assets, helping to power sustainable outcomes.

Our story

Corporate and investor dialogues are characterized by a range of enablers and barriers to engagement success. On the challenges side, corporates perceive investors to for example lack quality and continuity in interactions and in the tracking of engagement and corporate progress. Investors in turn experience related hardships around the ability to influence corporates, and to adequately record, monitor and evaluate engagement progress.

Experiencing these challenges firsthand, Esgaia was founded based on the recognition of many investors’ systems for engagement management as inefficient and not fit-for-purpose, which can become a hindrance to successful engagements. Together with other common stewardship challenges such as the lack of transparency and collaboration in the market, this accentuated the need to further digitalize workstreams and help innovate to raise the overall technological level in the industry.