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The impact data layer for universities.

Outcomes-based impact data for research and teaching – as trusted by investors and companies. Grounded in science, not self-reported ESG claims.
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USE CASES

Analyse real corporate impacts
Compare and model company impacts at the activity level — across companies, funds, and custom research cases.

Research what firms and investors do, not what they say

Contrast companies’ claims with their actual impacts.

Compare across all sustainability matters using net impact, SDGs, CSRD DMA metrics, EU Taxonomy metrics, and Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) indicators.

Understand sustainability factors influencing value creation and risk

Upright’s activity-based metrics show how sustainability connects with value creation.

Financially material metrics aligned with CSRD help refine analyses of risks and opportunities.

Teach students the fundamentals of value creation and impact

Explore how actual business activities contribute to impacts, risks, and opportunities.

Provide students with tools to analyse and model real companies and their impacts — not just interpret data as given.

DATA OFFERING

Sustainability intelligence for your entire university
Support teaching and research with off-the-shelf coverage and custom modeling for any firm.

DATA METRICS

  • Quantified monetary and real-world impacts
    Holistic quantification across 31 dimensions of impact, including climate, biodiversity, health, education and infrastructure.
  • Double materiality quantification
    of 82 CSRD/ESRS matters across financial and impact materiality.
  • Granular SDG revenue alignment
    and misalignment based on 150,000+ products and services.

COVERAGE & TOOLS

  • Coverage of 57,000 companies and 40,000 funds
    for all impact metrics.
  • 100% on-demand coverage
    for private markets.
  • Create a company profile for any firm,
    based on business activities.

METHODOLOGY

How Upright quantifies impact
based on scientific evidence

1

Map detailed business activities

We map companies based on 150,000+ real products and services – giving a full view of impact outcomes across the value chain that ESG disclosures miss.

2

Link to scientific research

Each product is linked to its external impacts based on 300M+ scientific papers and impact-specific databases, covering both positive and negative across topics.

3

Output across impact topics

Company and fund impacts are quantified across various impact frameworks from real-world and monetary impacts to sustainable revenues.

Explore the methodology in detail in our open Knowledge Base

Why Upright

”
The current regulatory uncertainty presents a significant hurdle for students to identify useful and reliable information. Upright provided the students with useful information that acted as a starting point for benchmarking as well as critical assessment of a company’s impact risks and opportunities.”
Edhec business school
Dr. Theresa Harrer
Assistant Professor of Accounting

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