GU Ventures appointed one of the "ESG Rising Star" incubators in the world by UBI Global!

As a participant in the UBI Global World Benchmark Study 2021-2022, GU Ventures have been appointed "ESG Rising Star" as one of six organizations who is recognized for excellent implementation of ESG strategies impacting multiple facets of the innovation ecosystem surrounding them.

GU Ventures performance and impact metrics across 21 key performance indicators (KPIs), plus a set of Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) criterias, were benchmarked against peer programs around the world in the UBI Global World Benchmark Study of the last two years, 2021-2022, and have been reviewed by the UBI Global research team.

After that, the results were independently scored and GU Ventures is one of six organizations who is recognized for excellent implementation of ESG strategies impacting multiple facets of the innovation ecosystem surrounding them.

UBI Global, the Stockholm-based innovation intelligence company and community known for the assessment and mapping of business incubators and accelerators, announced the "ESG Rising Star" organizations in Belgium and commented:

• “Following a rigorous data-driven approach, we assessed and benchmarked incubation organizations across the world,” says Joshuah Sowah, Head of Research at UBI Global. ”Our study is in tune with the multiple facets of the international incubation ecosystem and illustrates critical challenges and opportunities the participating organizations face.”

• "This recognition means the world to me and our dedicated team at GU Ventures, we were jumping with joy when UBI Global told us that we are setting the bar for future research of ESG initiatives in our industry!" says Klementina Österberg, CEO of GU Ventures. "We are very grateful to all employees in our companies, as this actually means that they are moving forward in a preferred manner and it also impacts our whole organization and company group of 80+ companies and their business partners."

For UBI Global and the whole community of incubators and accelerators, this edition of the World Benchmark Study for 2021-2022 is the first to include KPIs surrounding ESG activity among the world’s business incubators and accelerators.

These organizations are being recognized for their excellent implementation of ESG strategies impacting multiple facets of the innovation ecosystem surrounding them:

• Arctic Business Incubator (Sweden)
• Crescent Innovation Incubation Council (India)
  
• GU Ventures AB (Sweden)
• prendho (Ecuador)
• RMIT Actuator (Australia)
• TechBridge Invest (Kenya)
  

UBI Global recognized these shining examples of excellence and looking forward to continuing to study the growth of ESG. For the full World Rankings Report 2021-2022 of business incubators and accelerators, please visit ubi-global.com/rankings/

For more information, please contact:

Angela Partridge, Communications Manager
communications@ubi-global.com
UBI Global
Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 73 667 47 79
Email: communications@ubi-global.com
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About UBI Global
UBI Global is a Swedish-based innovation intelligence company and community specializing in mapping, highlighting, and connecting the world of business incubation. Through a community of more than 1,000 member organizations from over 90 countries worldwide, UBI Global provides matchmaking, ranking, benchmarking, and research services to corporations and business incubation
organizations. Previous results from UBI Global’s studies have been featured on BBC Radio, The Chicago Tribune, Le Figaro, Der Standard, The Huffington Post, The Irish Times, France 3, and many other media outlets around the world.