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In today's ESG landscape, the environmental (E) component often dominates with robust data and clear metrics, while the social dimension (S) remains significantly underserved. Despite growing awareness of social factors' importance, investors, pension funds, and other organizations have lacked standardized data to effectively measure and evaluate social performance across portfolios and supply chains.
At the same time, amidst recent developments in the US and increased political attention, there is a growing demand for objective, standardized data that enables organizations to make well-informed choices, address stakeholder expectations, and manage legal and reputational risk.
Denominator addresses this critical gap by providing comprehensive social data across more than 5 million companies globally. The platform delivers granular data, scores, and ratings across 15+ social dimensions, enabling organizations to make informed decisions about investments, procurement, and internal initiatives with the same data-driven rigor previously reserved for environmental metrics.
For investment firms and asset managers, Denominator's data transforms abstract social commitments into measurable insights. Fund managers can now evaluate diversity and broader human capital performance across their portfolios, compare companies against peers, create new thematic investment products, and identify both risks and opportunities related to social factors.
All based on quantifiable and objective data collected via multiple sources:
"The fundamental problem we're addressing is that investors and companies do not make capital decisions based on survey data or anecdotal insights. Capital flows run on quantifiable and standardized data," explains Anders Rodenberg, CEO and founder of Denominator. "As an example, many investors have for years neglected the human capital element in their risk management processes. Not because they didn’t find it important, but because they could not access quantifiable data on a global level."
Founded in 2021 by Anders Rodenberg, a former executive with extensive experience at the global rating agency Moody's, Denominator has quickly established itself as the leading provider of social data. The platform's coverage extends beyond surface-level metrics, examining three organizational levels: board composition, executive leadership, and company-wide demographics.
"Data is the underlying foundation for ensuring full democratization, or freedom, of investment, consumption, and employment decisions."
The data gives a complete view of the social aspect within human capital, diversity, human rights, health & safety, and labour rights as well as sub dimensions such as gender, disability, race/ethnicity, age, nationality, education, and sexuality. For asset owners like pension funds, the data enables portfolio screening and engagement strategies that align with beneficiaries' values. For corporations, it provides unprecedented visibility into their own diversity performance and that of their suppliers.
"Data is the underlying foundation for ensuring full democratization, or freedom, of investment, consumption, and employment decisions. Social and human capital data was the final missing piece of the critical information that provides decision-makers with the needed insights from a social perspective," says Rodenberg. "With transparency, organizations are empowered to make informed decisions that benefit both their stakeholders and their bottom line. But after all, people are the common denominator."
