Amsterdam-based beSirius, an AI-powered sustainability intelligence platform for metals, mining, and heavy industries, has raised €3 million in a Seed funding spherical to speed up product improvement and deepen integrations with provide chains, auditors, and monetary establishments — changing static sustainability reporting with real-time intelligence that informs offers, procurement, and strategic choices.
The spherical was led by NAP (previously Cavalry Ventures), with participation from Fund F, Techstars, Blackwood, WEPA Ventures, and Golden Egg Verify.
“Metals and mining are on the coronary heart of every little thing that powers the trendy world — vitality, expertise, and defence. However the business is caught translating complexity into static stories as a substitute of utilizing it to drive choices. We constructed beSirius, so corporations cease firefighting stories and begin utilizing sustainability knowledge to guard income, form technique, and win higher offers“, mentioned Anastasia Kuskova, CEO of beSirius.
Based in 2022 by Anastasia Kuskova (CEO), Sergey Tyan (CCO), and Seva Martynov (CTO), beSirius was constructed by business insiders. With over 20 years of mixed experience in metals, mining, and industrial tech, the founding staff got down to eradicate reporting waste — and switch sustainability knowledge right into a aggressive edge.
By reworking fragmented sustainability knowledge into structured, shareable intelligence, beSirius allows companies to combine sustainability straight into workflows, lowering guide effort and creating enterprise worth.
On the core of beSirius is the ‘Sustainability Twin’, a dwelling digital profile that consolidates all qualitative and quantitative sustainability knowledge, retains it updated, and makes it machine-readable. The beSirius AI engine makes use of this knowledge to reply to investor, regulator, and buyer requests within the format they want. It reportedly reduces guide effort by over 70%, identifies gaps that affect investor and buyer choices, and helps corporations concentrate on what issues most within the subsequent negotiation.
The platform has been adopted by international business gamers similar to FLSmidth (a mining engineering firm), ArcelorMittal (a metal producer), and Freeport-McMoRan (a mining firm).
“ESG as we’ve identified it’s useless. It’s now not about reporting — it’s about enterprise efficiency. Sustainability groups are buried in limitless requests — every stakeholder asking for knowledge another way. It’s sluggish, guide, and retains good folks caught in reporting as a substitute of shaping technique. We constructed beSirius because the ‘common adapter’: it turns scattered knowledge into clear solutions and offers groups the readability to drive choices that defend income and strengthen relationships,” defined Kuskova.
Since launching, beSirius has onboarded “key international steel and mining corporations“, and reportedly saved 1000’s of hours of guide work for sustainability groups. The corporate has grown from three founders to a staff of 17 and continues to broaden its presence throughout Europe and North America.
With this new funding, beSirius will deepen its AI infrastructure, prolong platform capabilities, and scale adoption amongst industrial leaders centered on sooner choices, stronger buyer relationships, and income safety.
“beSirius is popping sustainability knowledge right into a strategic asset, because of the staff’s deep business experience and sensible, AI-driven strategy. Seeing adoption amongst early clients, we consider beSirius is nicely positioned to assist a whole business to make use of knowledge extra successfully – bettering decision-making and driving actual affect throughout the worth chain,” mentioned Stefan Walter, Managing Associate at NAP.
