Actual

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ABOUT THE COMPANY

Actual is a first-of-its-kind environmental, social and governance (ESG) Transformation Platform. Designed with game-like mechanics and a user-forward interface, the platform enables companies to embed sustainability into their business models and meet net-zero and corporate pledges.

Year Founded:

2018

Lead Investors:

Buckley Ventures, Hyper, Wndrco, Social Impact Capital, Sequoia Scout, Signalfire Scout, and Craft Scout

Office Environment:

Fully Remote

MEET THE FOUNDER(s)

01

Karthik Balakrishnan

President

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Rajesh Chandran

CEO

03

Derek Lyons

CTO

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CULTURE

How do you show employees you appreciate them?

We show appreciation for our employees by regularly updating their compensation to match their growth. Weekly 1:1’s provide space for direct, actionable, and constructive feedback. We highlight achievement, innovation, and creativity across our Slack channels by tagging the employee, their work, and the staff-wide channels. A weekly All Hands meeting allows ample opportunity for similar call outs, both by managers and employees.

How are you creating a workplace of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging?

We hire with DEI in mind, sourcing from a variety of conventional and unconventional talent pools to reach as diverse an audience as possible. Our specific focus at the moment is finding more woman and non-binary engineers for the team. We encourage employees to display pronouns if comfortable. We’re building policies of inclusion that include flexible parental leave for adoption, foster placement, and birth, for birthing and non-birthing parents, and use of gender neutral language in the workplace. Employees are empowered to host and participate in non-work related bonding activities such as coffee chats or game hours during the work day. We try to avoid hierarchical thinking as much as possible, favoring communication, openness, and flexibility in an effort to create a work environment that is as collaborative as possible.

Why should someone work at your company?

Beyond being passionate about our work and product, prospective candidates have many reasons to seek employment at Actual. The first of these reasons is, of course, impact. With customers worldwide, Actual has a hand in actualizing positive social and environmental impact on a global scale. With customers that operate across millions of acres and thousands of sites and locations, the potential for positive impact through work at Actual is impossible to overstate. At Actual, employees can positively affect the climate, reduce emissions, and achieve social impact beyond their personal capacity to act. Since its inception, Actual has prioritized the growth and development of its diverse and multidisciplinary workforce. With team members from a range of professional and educational backgrounds, Actual employees are constantly learning from one another to face and solve complex and multifaceted problems. What’s more, the solutions our team at Actual is building will be scaled to improve ESG impact outcomes for generations to come. Actual provides several unique work benefits, to always keep our team as our priority. These include ample opportunity for growth, backed by an individual professional development budget and collaborative team environment, flexible time off and generous front-loaded sick pay. Moreover, Actual is proud to provide robust health insurance coverage with all costs covered by the company, paid baby bonding and parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents. At Actual, we’ve always understood that creating a positive impact on a global scale begins by first having a positive impact on our own workforce. With this in mind, we are consistently listening and evolving to meet our employees’ changing needs.

Our company could win an award for:

transparency, communication, and respect

Top 100 culture Award winner

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