The agency led an oversubscribed $2.65 million pre-seed spherical for the sustainability administration platform firm.
(MANCHESTER, N.H., Oct. 31, 2024) — York IE, an advisory and enterprise capital agency that helps expertise corporations develop, right now introduced its funding in Chilly, the sustainability administration platform that leverages AI to streamline compliance for organizations of all sizes.
York IE led the oversubscribed $2.65 million pre-seed spherical, with participation from Higher Ventures and a crew of advisors and buyers with deep retail trade backgrounds.
“For corporations searching for to work with enterprise purchasers, assembly sustainability compliance requirements is quickly changing into simply as important as SOC 2 certification,” stated Marshall Everson, VP of Investments & Technique at York IE. “Chilly’s sustainability administration platform simplifies compliance by centralizing numerous compliance frameworks and utilizing AI to automate what was beforehand a tedious, handbook course of.”
Mounting sustainability reporting necessities are placing elevated strain on many corporations. Compliance and reporting take up about 40% of sustainability leaders’ time, which comes at a big alternative value.
Chilly’s platform helps sustainability leaders at main shopper manufacturers, similar to Bombas, Topo Designs, and Peak Design, centralize their reporting processes, liberating up time to concentrate on lowering environmental affect.
Previous to founding Chilly, CEO Eric Dayton based Askov Finlayson, a local weather optimistic winter outerwear firm. Askov Finalyson is simply the fourth firm within the out of doors attire trade to realize B Corp certification. Chilly’s co-founder, Dan Lindquist, has a historical past of constructing revolutionary SaaS options because the co-founder and former Chief Product Officer at Mainstreet.
With this funding, Chilly plans to increase its engineering crew and speed up the event of latest product options, together with instruments for provider and product-level reporting.
“As a former founder within the attire trade, I’ve skilled firsthand how sustainability reporting can suck treasured time and sources away from really lowering a corporation’s environmental affect,” Dayton stated. “Chilly helps centralize and automate compliance so sustainability leaders can concentrate on the work that issues most. Partnering with York IE and their energetic capital offers us the sources to proceed furthering that mission.”
Chilly is a part of York IE’s tenth funding cohort. The agency has now introduced practically 70 investments in additional than 50 corporations around the globe.
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