PE & VC Portfolio Carbon Accounting

Help your portfolio to measure, reduce, and report their carbon emissions - with our easy-to-use platform.

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Investors need to future-proof their portfolios

Private equity and venture capital firms face growing pressure to measure, disclose, and reduce financed emissions. LPs, regulators, and frameworks increasingly expect robust, portfolio-wide reporting.

But this relies on being able to engage a diverse mix of portfolio companies - each with different sizes, sectors, maturity levels, and capabilities.

Without consistent primary data, firms are forced to rely on high-level estimates that obscure real risk, limit insight, and weaken the credibility of disclosures.

Your portcos aren’t climate experts (and never will be)

Most portfolio companies - especially in the growth and mid-market stages - lack dedicated sustainability teams, expertise, or budget.

As a result, they face a difficult trade-off:

- Do nothing (creating reporting gaps and future risk)
- Use simplistic tools that produce unreliable numbers
- Engage consultants at high cost with limited scalability

Meanwhile, investors struggle to drive consistent action across diverse holdings without adding operational burden to management teams.

Seedling equips every portfolio company with a robust strategy

Invite your portfolio companies to use a guided, easy-to-complete carbon accounting process designed around how growth businesses actually operate. We handle the complexity behind the scenes, so they don’t have to.

Portfolio companies get:

An easy but reliable way of measuring their emissions.

Clear advice on decarbonisation.

The ability to turn a tick-box into a value-add.

You get:

High-quality primary Scope 3 data.

A consistent methodology.

A path to portfolio decarbonisation.

Why partner with Seedling?

Designed for your portfolio

Seedling is designed for small to mid-market businesses - those without a full-time ESG team. We're easy-to-use with an affordable pricing model that scales with the client's size and complexity.

Credible data, not estimates

Our platform is built in line witht he GHG Protocol. It's easy to use but doesn't compromise on rigour. You can be confident we're capturing all relevant Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions from your suppliers.

Value-add, not a tick-box

When your portfolio uses Seedling, we help them turn what is often a tick-box into a genuinely value-add exercise, helping them cut costs and build sustainability into their own sales / marketing strategy.

What our clients say

Hear from our satisfied Seedling clients

"Seedling’s carbon footprint platform is refreshingly easy to use and makes reporting much more straightforward than I would have believed possible. I’m so pleased with how effortlessly it simplifies our carbon reduction calculations, dramatically reducing the time it takes to produce a Carbon Reduction Plan."

Consulting

Emilie Smith

Operations & People Lead

Create Change

"We spoke to a few emission tracking partners before we spoke with Seedling, and Seedling's offer seemed too good to be true but it wasn't! Super straight forward platform, able to get face to face advice when we needed it, not expensive. Would definitely recommend."

Creative agency

Natalie Pilch

The Unlikely Saboteur

Saboteur

"As a recently certified B Corp, finding a way to measure and reduce our carbon emissions as a business was a massive priority but we weren't really sure where to start. Seedling have been fantastic from the start at guiding us through the process, taking the time to explain and helping us improve our own knowledge, and their software has made everything a breeze! With an incredibly quick turn-around time, we have now received our insights and are looking forward to implementing the actions and targets that the team help us set in order to reduce our emissions and sharing that with our community through the integrated engagement functionality. I highly recommend Seedling and their great team, it was a pleasure to work with them and we look forward to doing so again."

Financial services

Anna Stevens

Operations Associate

Kene Partners

"We recently used Seedling to measure our carbon footprint, and the process couldn't have been easier. From the very start, the intuitive interface guided us seamlessly through each step, providing clear instructions and helpful tips along the way. The entire experience was user-friendly and stress-free. We are now more aware of our environmental impact and feel empowered to make positive changes. We highly recommend anyone looking to understand and reduce their carbon footprint to go through this simple and effective process with Seedling."

CONSULTING

Luke Badiali

COO

The Consultancy Growth Network

"I love working with Seedling. Passionate, insightful and thoughtful people doing work that benefits our business, our staff, and the whole planet. They are easy to work alongside, with a well-constructed process that is simple to follow for any business, small or large."

Software

Simon Stewart

Client Services Director

Big Blue Door

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FAQs

Your questions answered

Is Seedling a good fit for my portfolio?

Seedling is built for small to mid-market businesses without an internal ESG or carbon team. We have clients ranging from 10 FTEs right up to 2000 FTEs. We're less suitable for large multinationals / listed businesses with 5000+ FTEs. These tend to have complex needs and are better suited to working with a consultancy or enterprise-focused platform.

What standards does Seedling align to?

Seedling is built on the GHG Protocol - the global gold standard for carbon accounting and reporting. We also support ISO 14064 measurement and verification.

Do our portcos need sustainability expertise?

Not at all. While we work with many sustainability teams, we also work with leads in ops, finance, HR or marketing - whoever has taken on the carbon footprinting role alongside the day job. The platform is designed with that profile in mind, and there's guidance from our experts every step of the way.

How does pricing work?

Each portfolio company can sign up to Seedling's free plan and produce a basic footprint. If they see the value in our paid plans, they can upgrade - this starts at £80/month.

How is Seedling different from surveys or simple carbon calculators?

Surveys typically collect inconsistent or incomplete information, while basic calculators rely on rough estimates that lack credibility. Seedling provides a full measurement experience - combining guidance, methodology, and automated calculations - so you get robust primary data at scale without deploying complex enterprise tools to every portfolio company.

Still have questions?

Book a demo or get in touch and we'll be happy to help. Or follow this step-by-step guide to measuring your business's carbon footprint.

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