Founders Ben Gleisner

CEO Ben Gleisner

Sector Banking, Financial Services

In the media, dire statistics surrounding climate change and global inequality are persistent. According to Oxfam, the richest 1% of the population earned 82% of wealth generated in 2017. Meanwhile at WWF, a report predicted that more than a quarter of the Amazon biome will be deforested by 2020. The current climate shows a rising global concern towards pressing environmental and social issues.

Cogo is an impact-led fintech whose carbon tracking API and consumer App enables users and businesses world-wide to measure, reduce and compensate for their impact on people and planet.

The company’s API enables banks and other corporations to integrate carbon and sustainability data into their customer experiences - for example by providing bank customers their carbon footprint within the bank's own mobile app. Cogo supports behaviour change (reduction) through its world-leading ‘ethical nudge framework’; and offers users the ability to offset (compensate) the balance of their impact via carbon credits.

In addition, powered by open banking technology, the company’s app (currently in the UK) enables users to make easy, positive changes to their spending and lifestyle to help lower their carbon footprint.

Cogo’s pioneering technology and data helps people better understand the effects of their daily decisions and helps them take climate action. Cogo supports and encourages people on their journey to becoming more conscious consumers.

The company believes in a new ‘impact economy’ where all businesses are a force for good.

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