Project overview
CLARIFAI is developing Tau20, an AI-powered platform designed to make impact investing clearer, fairer, and more effective—especially for early-stage startups working to create positive social and environmental change.
The Challenge
Many impact-driven startups struggle to access funding because their real-world impact is difficult to measure using traditional ESG frameworks. This often leads to missed opportunities and impact-washing.
The Solution
Many impact-driven startups struggle to access funding because their real-world impact is difficult to measure using traditional ESG frameworks. This often leads to missed opportunities and impact-washing.
Built With The Ecosystem
The platform is developed through close collaboration with investors, founders, and experts, using research, co-creation, and real-world testing to ensure it meets real needs.
The Impact
By improving transparency and trust in impact data, CLARIFAI helps direct capital towards initiatives that deliver measurable, long-term value for people, the economy, and the planet.
Project Objectives
By improving transparency and trust in impact data, CLARIFAI helps direct capital towards initiatives that deliver measurable, long-term value for people, the economy, and the planet.
Enhance the Platform
Scale and improve the existing prototype into a fully functional, user-friendly SaaS tool that delivers accurate, standardised, and comprehensive impact assessments for startups.
Strengthen Impact Measurement
Integrate recognised impact frameworks and methodologies—such as GRI, IRIS+, IOOI logic, going beyond SDGs to provide deeper, more reliable impact insights and reduce impact-washing.
Apply Advanced AI
Use AI to analyse pitch decks, one-pagers, and other startup materials, enabling faster, more consistent assessments across multiple languages and European markets.
Build Market Trust
Support investors with transparent benchmarking, reporting, and portfolio-level analysis, helping them meet regulatory requirements and make confident, data-driven decisions.
CLARIFAI Consortium
Our consortium’s unique positioning towards the startup founder, business angel, and VC audience active in the pre-seed and seed stages of venture development enables us to support founders in refining their impact ambitions and communicating them transparently to investors. Simultaneously, we help investors make informed decisions by providing objective and scalable assessments of impact startups.
University of Luxembourg
The project team of the University of Luxembourg comes from the Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and New Technology research group (EINT) of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg. SnT brings together researchers from partners and the UL faculties to carry out research and PhD education and aims to achieve high impact and excellence well beyond the academic community by collaborating with external partners such as industries, government bodies, institutions, and international actors.
SEERC
The South-East European Research Centre (SEERC) is a multidisciplinary research institution established in 2004 as a non-profit legal entity in Thessaloniki, Greece. Operating as part of CITY College, University of York Europe Campus, SEERC brings together academic expertise from both CITY College and the University of York to support the stable development of South-East Europe. The Centre conducts applied research across four core areas: Enterprise, Innovation & Development, Information & Communication Technologies, and Society & Human Development.
SEERC’s mission is to foster collaboration among researchers throughout the South-East European region, initiate joint research projects, and promote open dialogue on critical regional issues. Leveraging its EU location and regional presence, SEERC acts as a bridge between Western European academic institutions and South-East Europe, while also serving as an information hub that distills complex research into accessible formats for policymakers, academics, civil society, and the public.
With a broad disciplinary base, including economics, social sciences, public health, and more, SEERC aspires to be a cross-border institution that enhances regional integration and contributes meaningfully to an inclusive, expanded Europe.
FastTrack
FASTTRACK VENTURES is a Portuguese VC firm that invests in early-stage deep-tech companies. More than this, it supports startups, entrepreneurs and other innovators in building and growing their businesses by providing business acceleration activities, portfolio management and organization of networking activities. In fact, Fasttrack is an investment catalyst, working closely with the ventures to support entrepreneurs to become investment ready and scale their business.
EBAN
As a network of more than 120 member organisations, representing over 15,000 business angels, early-stage investors, and stakeholders, EBAN is dedicated to fostering the growth and development of the early-stage ecosystem across Europe and beyond. EBAN possesses a comprehensive understanding of the European funding landscape and its challenges, informed by extensive experience. The organization has consistently provided solutions for issues faced by business angels and business angel clubs. Its mission is to drive successful and responsible early stage investing by providing its members network connections, best practices and useful tools, as well as representation towards governmental stakeholders.