SWEEP
PLEASE START BY INTRODUCING YOURSELF, YOUR BACKGROUND AND YOUR JOURNEY TO YOUR CURRENT ROLE I am Rachel Delacour, the CEO and Co-Founder of Sweep. I’ ve been working at the crossroads of data, tech and SaaS businesses for more than 15 years now.
I started my first company, called BIME Analytics, which was all about business intelligence and was acquired by Zendesk six years later. What we learnt is that data is at the core of any kind of transformation for companies, from the smallest to the most important decisionmaking processes.
Sustainability is a data challenge, so with Sweep we aimed to apply what we learnt at BIME to nonfinancial data, extra-financial data and carbon / ESG data, so that our customers are equipped to make far better decisions at scale.
At the core of it, it’ s about collecting data and transforming it to accelerate the sustainability transformation.
“ AT SWEEP, IT’ S ABOUT“ LOAD ONCE, REPORT EVERYWHERE”
Rachel Delacour, CEO and Co-Founder, Sweep
SWEEP RECENTLY CELEBRATED ITS FIFTH ANNIVERSARY – HOW IS IT GOING?
I am so proud of what we have created, of our committed team, of the great partnerships we have built and are continuing to build with some extremely large companies, ones which have the most complex sustainability programs and demands, like L’ Oréal or the French railways company SNCF.
It’ s never easy to start a business from scratch, and more importantly when you’ re doing so in order to address a transformation within companies. Fifteen years ago we all experienced the digital transformation for companies, and the ones who managed to navigate it and transform themselves the right way are thriving today.
Fifteen years later, there are two transformations happening at the same time: one in which companies are embedding AI at the core of their business, and another in which they’ re transitioning to a lowcarbon economy. It’ s very difficult for companies today, who have two transformations side by side to deal with.
Sweep’ s role is to help businesses transition to the low-carbon economy so they are building their own future where they don’ t just survive but thrive in this new economy. We want them to embed sustainability at the core of their operations.
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