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GENUI GmbH Sustainability Actions

Founded with impact focus

When GENUI was founded in 2014, it knew it wanted to have an impact; something that goes beyond a merely financial view of success. Over the course of establishing its second-generation fund (GENUI II), it set itself the goal of encouraging portfolio companies to contribute to accelerating the transition to a more sustainable economy and society.

Certified B Corp

Being a certified B Corp, GENUI’s strategic sustainability objective is to support positive and measurable social or environmental effects and pursue alignment of its investments with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Annual sustainability reporting

GENUI publishes its sustainability reports on an annual basis including information on impact measurement, ESG initiatives and KPIs at management company level and portfolio company level.

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Climate risk assessment

GENUI also conducts an annual third-party assessment of the climate change impact in alignment with the TCFD, covering transitional and physical risk scenario analyses.

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ESG roundtables

GENUI has established the GENUI Portfolio ESG Roundtable, comprising the sustainability representatives of the portfolio firms, that comes together on a semi-annual basis to discuss ESG initiatives and share best practice on measurements and reporting.

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Working group participation

Since 2022, GENUI has contributed to the Invest Europe Impact Investing Working Group and the Invest Europe ESG Working Group. Being part of these working groups enables knowledge transfer and alignment on impact investing frameworks and methodologies and also promotes responsible investment practices and the consideration of ESG issues throughout the broader private equity community.

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Net zero target set

GENUI acknowledges that the climate crisis is one of the biggest challenges of our time and commit to achieving net zero by 2050. GENUI set scope 1 and 2 targets as well as scope 3 portfolio targets with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). These were approved in 2023 and are publicly available on the SBTi website.

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Diversity initiatives

In 2023, GENUI became signatory of the Institutional Limited Partners Association’s (ILPA) initiative Diversity in Action and joined Charta der Vielfalt, the leading German Diversity Charter & Association, emphasising the commitment to diversity.

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Entrepreneurs’ Social Impact Partnership

GENUI initiated the Entrepreneurs’ Social Impact Partnership (Unternehmer Stiftung für Chancengerechtigkeit [USC] gGmbH), which is financially backed by GENUI Entrepreneurs and is structured to invest in social impact funds, including those at GENUI and other leading investment firms. The entire proceeds are used to improve the opportunities of children and young people in the areas of education, health and societal inclusion, contributing to the SDGs.

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What do our labels mean?

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Certified B Corporation
UNGC Participant Logo

UNGC Participant

About GENUI GmbH

  • Status
  • Unverified
  • Employees
  • 5 - 25
  • Country
  • Germany

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