Clarity AI

Who owns Clarity AI?

Clarity AI is currently owned by Seaya Ventures through Seaya Ventures III (2020 vintage), since 2019. Across its history, Clarity AI has been through 4 private equity ownership periods, detailed in the timeline below.

Hand-verified · updated 2026-04-21

About Clarity AI

Clarity AI is a sustainability technology company, founded in Spain and now operating internationally, whose AI-native platform delivers environmental, social and regulatory intelligence to financial institutions, corporations and governments. Its software combines ESG risk ratings, climate and physical-risk analytics, impact measurement against the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and regulatory reporting tools for frameworks such as the EU Taxonomy, SFDR and MiFID II. According to its own disclosures the platform analyses more than 300,000 listed and private companies and hundreds of thousands of funds, delivering data through APIs, feeds and integrations into third-party investment systems. It competes in the ESG and sustainability data segment against established index and ratings providers, differentiating through machine-learning-based coverage and source traceability. Clarity AI reports clients that collectively manage in excess of USD 70 trillion in assets and employs more than 300 people across offices including Madrid, London, New York and Zurich.

Ownership journey

Clarity AI was founded in Madrid in 2017 by Rebeca Minguela, a former entrepreneur and consultant, to quantify the societal and environmental impact of investment portfolios. Early venture backing came in 2019 from Alma Mundi Ventures and Seaya Ventures, followed in October 2020 by a USD 15 million round led by Deutsche Boerse through its DB1 Ventures arm, with Kibo Ventures also joining as a shareholder. In 2021 the company raised a further USD 50 million growth round backed by international investors, and in 2023 the growth lender Atempo Growth extended a debt facility rather than taking equity. All of these are minority venture and growth investors, none holding control, and the company remains founder-led and independent, with no exit or change-of-control transaction recorded.

Under PE ownership

Successive minority rounds funded a shift from a portfolio-impact tool into a broad extra-financial data and analytics platform. Since 2019 Clarity AI has expanded coverage to more than 300,000 companies and hundreds of thousands of funds and added regulatory modules for the EU Taxonomy, SFDR principal adverse impacts and MiFID II sustainability preferences. It secured distribution partnerships that embed its data into large third-party systems, including BlackRock's Aladdin platform and fund networks such as Allfunds, and signed banking and asset-management clients internationally. Headcount grew past 300 employees and the company opened offices beyond Spain in London, New York and Zurich. The 2023 growth financing was aimed at extending this product and market reach while preserving the founder's control of the business.