Why compliance isn’t just a cost. It’s your catalyst for impact

What if your sustainability compliance budget is costing you more than you realize?
Institutional investors spend an average of $1.4M annually navigating a growing maze of reporting frameworks, including SFDR, EDCI, KfW, Europe Invest, EU Taxonomy, and more. As regulations and requirements evolve, so do your compliance costs.
But here’s what most firms miss: the biggest cost isn’t what's in your budget; it's the opportunity you're losing while teams are stuck in fragmented, manual reporting processes instead of focusing on strategy, performance, and value creation.
The real price of manual compliance
Right now, your team is probably managing sustainability reporting the hard way:
- Spreadsheets bouncing between investment teams and portfolio companies
- Expensive consultants brought in to patch things together
- Portfolio companies frustrated by endless, repetitive data requests
- Investment decisions made with incomplete or outdated sustainability insights
This isn’t just inefficient, it’s expensive and limits your ability to capture value. The longer teams stay focused on manual data collection, the more opportunities slip away.
When compliance becomes your competitive advantage
Leading private equity and venture capital firms are taking a different approach. They see sustainability data not as a tick-boxing exercise but as a strategic asset to:
- Validate investment theses with real-time sustainability metrics that inform deal evaluation and due diligence
- Accelerate portfolio company growth through data-driven sustainability action plans
- Strengthen LP relationships with best-in-class reporting
- Reduce risk and unlock hidden value across their portfolio
What sets these firms apart? They’ve built the infrastructure to act on their data - at scale.
What is there was a better way?
Imagine your team no longer having to chase spreadsheets or call in consultants to respond to the LP requests over and over again.
Imagine sustainability data that just... works:
- One source of truth shared seamlessly across your team and your portfolio companies
- 80% less time spent on sustainability reporting, freeing up resources for strategy, not admin
- Reporting to SFDR, CSRD, TCFD, and SB 261 automatically
- LP data requests answered in minutes, not weeks
- Portfolio companies empowered with tools that help them improve their sustainability performance and become more resilient. No complex onboarding, no IT bottlenecks: just plug in and move forward
Kara: purpose-built for private markets
The infrastructure to make this vision a reality already exists. Kara was designed specifically for private equity and venture capital firms that want to turn compliance into a competitive edge. Some of the most forward-thinking investors have already made the switch, turning what used to be a cost center into a value driver.
“Kara gives us robust, reliable sustainability data - all in one place. It’s helped us bring structure, consistency, and speed to everything from reporting to decision-making.”
Sonia Fernández, Partner at Kibo Ventures
Ready to see how this could work for your team?