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For startups

Sustainable from day one.

Your first corporate customer sends a supplier questionnaire, your investor asks for ESG data. With ZEROvia you are prepared before the question arrives. Up to three years after founding, the ESG self-assessment & profile is free.

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Your dataset

Company dataverified IDs, locations
Code of conductaccepted or own
Carbon footprint 2025Scope 1–3, frozen
Climate targetsupplier information
PCF per productPACT format
Certificateswith expiry date

What your customer sees

Example. Switch sections on and off per customer. Without sharing, a buyer only sees your public profile. Data instead of a rating: no score, no medal.

Why now

Startups get asked earlier.

The first corporate customer

In supplier onboarding, corporates ask about policies, codes of conduct and key figures. From financial year 2027, CSRD companies will follow the voluntary EU standard for this.

Value-chain cap explained

Your investors

Funds report on sustainability themselves and need data from their portfolio companies for this. KfW Capital, for example, has required annual sustainability data per portfolio company from VC funds since 2023.

Your own standards

What you build into processes early, you do not have to rebuild later. A substantiated dataset grows with you, from your first customer to your own supply chain.

What startups really need

Four things are enough at the start. An own standard is not one of them.

No CSRD report, no self-invented measurement standard. What customers and investors want to know at the start can be substantiated with little effort.

1 · Basic dataset

Substantiated data instead of a report

Company data, policies, code of conduct and energy, organised according to the VSME basic module. This answers most onboarding questions. You usually do not need a sustainability report: the CSRD will in future only apply to companies with more than 1,000 employees.

2 · Small carbon footprint

Scope 1 and 2, plus a screening

Electricity, heating and vehicles in Scope 1 and 2. Software and cloud belong in Scope 3, category 1 (purchased services), laptops and servers depending on how they are booked, in category 1 or 2 (capital goods).

3 · Existing standards

Measure to a standard, not by feel

For software there is an ISO standard, SCI (ISO/IEC 21031:2024), which measures emissions per functional unit, for example per user. Large providers such as Google Workspace give their customers CO₂ reports. Use these values where they exist instead of estimating.

4 · Targets that grow with you

Substantiate first, then improve

Baseline assessment and profile first. Climate target and action plan come when your customers and team grow.

Action management

Planned: tool stack template

A template for your tool stack in the carbon footprint: software and cloud with spend-based factors, supplier values wherever they exist. We are looking for 10 startups to test it with us. Get involved

Offer

Start for free, pay when customers ask for more.

Founded up to 3 years ago

ESG self-assessment & profile free

  • ESG baseline assessments, procurement, PPWR and DPP readiness
  • ESG self-assessment with 49 questions, without a score
  • Public profile, badge and embed code
  • Sharing per customer, templates at the question
liveotherwise CHF 400 per year

When customers ask for more

Climate & Compliance Basis

CHF 2,400 per year. Startups and members of partner associations can get terms on request.

  • Carbon footprint Scope 1–3 and VSME report
  • Customer questionnaires with AI, export into the original
  • PCF per article in PACT format (version 3)
  • Action management in the team
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Sustainable from day one, substantiated from your first customer.

ESG self-assessment & profile free for up to three years after founding.

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How to start

Ready to supply in four steps.

1

Register for free

Take over company data from the commercial register.

2

Do the baseline assessment

ESG and procurement, with recommendations for each gap.

3

Complete profile and code

Templates sit right at the question.

4

Share

Profile link for investors, release per customer for corporate procurement.

Get involved

Request the startup offer or join the pilot.

Tell us when you were founded and what interests you. For the tool stack pilot we are looking for 10 startups with software or cloud costs.

Startup offer and pilot

Interest

Frequently asked questions

From when is a company a startup at ZEROvia?
Up to three years after entry in the commercial register.
Do we already need a sustainability report?
Usually not. Under the Omnibus Directive (EU) 2026/470, the CSRD will in future apply to companies with more than 1,000 employees and over EUR 450 million in turnover. You will still be asked, by customers and investors. A substantiated basic dataset is enough for that.
Does ZEROvia measure the CO₂ footprint of our software per user?
No. For that there is the SCI standard (ISO/IEC 21031:2024). ZEROvia calculates your company's footprint across Scope 1–3. You record your providers' values as your own factors with evidence (from Basic).
What do our investors see?
What you release: your public profile via link or badge, anything more only with your release. Data instead of a rating, no score.

Sources

  1. Covington: EU CSDDD/CSRD Omnibus Published in Official Journal (opens in a new window) (Directive (EU) 2026/470).
  2. Garrigues: Voluntary standard and value chain cap (opens in a new window) (application from financial year 2027).
  3. KfW Capital: VC Information Package, Requirement Overview Sustainability 2026 (opens in a new window).
  4. Green Software Foundation: Software Carbon Intensity (SCI), ISO/IEC 21031:2024 (opens in a new window).
  5. Google: Google Workspace Carbon Footprint Report (opens in a new window) (2023).