Number of companies the organization considered for investment—that is, in the pipeline—during the reporting period.
Organizations should footnote all assumptions used.
This metric is intended to capture the number of companies in the organization’s investing pipeline during the reporting period. Organizations should count all companies in the pipeline at any point during the reporting period, regardless of whether or not investment or the investment process proceeded.
This metric aligns with the Corporate Racial Equity Alliance’s (https://corporateracialequityalliance.org/) Investor Blueprint for Racial Equity.
This metric has 1 related submetrics.
June 2022 - IRIS v5.3 Released (current version)
New metric. Companies Considered for Investment: Total (II5202) was developed via the IRIS+ Racial Equity Expert Subgroup.
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