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As various countries around the world deal with the effects of the latest El Niño, Rachel Delacour, CEO and Co-Founder of Sweep, shares her expertise on how extreme weather events like this one impact retailers and supply chains, and how her company works to help mitigate them.
“ Sweep is a software vendor and sustainability data intelligence platform that helps large companies turn their sustainability data into measurable business performance. That includes analytics, data collection and monitoring, empowering companies to make sense of their data in order to make better decisions. Our operations are closely linked to my background in finance. I studied finance and started my first company, BIME Analytics, 15 years ago; a cloud analytics SaaS offering business intelligence and analytics for business data. That company was later acquired by Zendesk. Sweep applies a similar philosophy, but to non-financial data, helping to ease the decision-making process around sustainability,” she begins.
Founded in 2020, Sweep now employs almost 200 people across France, the UK and the US. The company has grown steadily since its inception, expanding its customer base year on year across European, British and American markets. Recently, the US became Sweep’ s leading region for new revenue, as American companies have increasingly come to understand the benefits of analyzing their sustainability data.
“ Through our software, we help companies turn complex sustainability data into measurable business value,” Rachel elaborates.“ We understood very early on that businesses had set ambitious climate commitments but lacked the tools and data infrastructure needed to actually deliver on those targets. Measuring sustainability is difficult because most of the time, the key information is scattered across spreadsheets, silos, systems and suppliers, particularly when
it comes to carbon emissions across Scope 1, 2 and 3. We are talking about information that often sits outside a company’ s core systems, yet that company is still accountable for reporting on it from a methodological standpoint. Collecting, monitoring, analyzing and disclosing all of that data from a single place is difficult for most businesses to do alone. That is exactly what Sweep does: we
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